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Gabriel García Márquez
23 September 2010
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In his new book Gabriel García Márquez, Professor Stephen Hart (UCL Film Studies) provides a new insight into the novelist's life, work and political influences.
This book provides a new perspective on García Márquez's use of 'creative false memory' and magical realism. There are five ingredients that are critical to García Márquez's writing - magical realism, a shortened and broken portrayal of time, punchy one-liners, dark and absurd humour, and political allegory - and these elements help to explain the extraordinary allure of García Márquez's work, as well as providing fascinating insight into his approach to writing. The divisions between García Márquez's everyday life and his life as a writer are also explored, as is the connection in his work between family history and national history.
Gabriel García Márquez presents an original portrait of this renowned writer and is a must-read for fans of his work, as well as those interested in magical realism, Latin American fiction and modern literature.
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Gabriel García Márquez is published by Reaktion Books, September 2010
UCL Context:
The Department of Spanish and Latin American Studies at UCL was home to the first
chair of Spanish in the United Kingdom. Established in 1828, the chair was
held by Antonio Alcala Galiano.
The Department is part of the newly-established School of European Languages, Society and Culture. It offers BA degrees in Hispanic Studies, Latin American Studies (formerly MILARS) and Spanish with Management, along with a number of combined language degrees, as well as an MA in Language, Culture and History: Hispanic Studies, and doctoral training in a wide variety of fields.
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