Gabriel Garcia Marquez and the Powers of Fiction (Texas Pan American Series)

Together with the late Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel Garca Mrquez, the 1982 Nobel laureate, stands at the pinnacle of Latin American literature. His work, in the words of Julio Ortega, contains its own deconstructive forcea literary power capable of reshaping natural order and rhetorical tradition in order to carnivalize the Borges library and allow us to hear the voicesand the laughterof a culture, that of Latin America. This reshaping force invites us to read the works of Garca Mrquez in a new way, one that bypasses the traditional, inadequate approaches through Latin American politics, history, and magical realism.In Gabriel Garca Mrquez and the Powers of Fiction, noted scholars Julio Ortega, Ricardo Gutirrez Mouat, Michael PalenciaRoth, Anbal Gonzlez, and Gonzalo DazMigoyo offer Englishspeaking readers a new approach to Garca Mrquezs work. Their poststructuralist readings focus on the peculiar signsystem, formal configuration, intradiscursivity, and unfolding representation in the novels One Hundred Years of Solitude, No One Writes to the Colonel, In Evil Hour, The Autumn of the Patriarch, and Chronicle of a Death Foretold and in several of the authors short stories. Also included as an appendix is a translation of Garca Mrquezs Nobel Prize acceptance speech, The Solitude of Latin America.