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Analysis of Gabriel García Márquez's Novels - Literary Theory and Criticism
Analysis of Gabriel García Márquez's Novels - Literary Theory and Criticism
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Literary Theory and
Criticism
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Analysis of Gabriel García Márquez’s Novels
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Gabriel García Márquez (1927 – 2014) denies that the fictional world he describes in his
novels is a world of fantasy. In an article about fantasy and artistic creation in Latin
America, he concludes: “Reality is a better writer than we are. Our destiny, and perhaps
our glory, is to try to imitate it with humility, and the best that is possible for us.”
Perhaps because García Márquez began writing as a journalist, this attitude permeates
much of his writing, and this version of reality is reflected in his fiction. A deep-seated
strain of antirationality underlies all of his fiction, which deals with Latin American
“reality” in
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Reality Hunger by David Shields
Writer and University of Washington mentor David Shields and I began conversingsometime in the mid Nineties and that dialogue has been renewed a number of times since, most recently this past spring as Shields criss-crossed the country touting his new book Reality Hunger(Random House) Some of the conversation that follows relates to that tome which claims to be a manifesto. Shields has written in” Long Live the Anti-Novel, Built from Scraps”:
… when I began, I was just trying to follow the Kafka dictum, “A book should be an axe to break the frozen sea within us.
You should be forewarned that David and I open with a brief discussion of the Seattle Mariners prospects(Shields has written excellently on the non-pareil Ichiro and also the NBA) and segue into chewing over East coast cultural mythology and then, well, read on.
Robert Birnbaum: How are the Mariners going to do this year?
David Shields: Well, I’m a little bit worried about Cliff Lee but they look like they’ve got it together.
RB: He’s got a hip injury?
DS: Abdomen issues and something else. They’re going to put him on a platelets diet, or something. How do you say it?
RB: Platelets?
DS: Platelets. Whatever, some kind of special diet. Anyway, he’s supposed t
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