Table Of ContentCAMBRIDGE IBERIAN AND
LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES
GENERAL EDITOR
P. E. RUSSELL F.B.A.
Emeritus Professor of Spanish Studies
University of Oxford
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
E. PUPO-WALKER
Director, Center for Latin American and Iberian Studies
Vanderbilt University
A. R. D. PAGDEN
Lecturer in History, University of Cambridge
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
New Readings
CAMBRIDGE IBERIAN AND LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES
LITERATURE AND LITERARY THEORY
STEVEN BOLDY: TheN oveelfsJ ulCioor taz.ar
ANTHONY CASCARDI: TheL imieft sI llusai corni:t sitcuaedlfy C alderon
MAURICE HEMINGWAY: EmilPiaar dBoa ;;ant:h mea kionfga novelist
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JOHN KING: Sura: s tuet[fyt hAer gentliinteej roauryrn aaln di trso lient hdee velopomfae cnutl ture,
1931-1970
JOHN LYo:•: TheT hea/rVeaefl le-Inclan
BERNARD McGUIRK AND RICHARD CARDWELL (EDS.):G abrGiaerlc Miaar quenze:wr eadings
JULIAN OLIVARES: TheL ovPeo etefry F rancidseQc uoe veadnoa :e slhaenldei xci stesnttuit[ayl
FRANCISCO Rico: TheS paniPsihc areNsoqvueaeln dJ hPeo inolfV iew
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1654-1g8o
DIANE F. UREY: Ga/daonsd! hIer oonyfL anguage
HISTORY AND SOCIAL THEORY
ROBERT I. BURNS: MusliCmhsr,i stiaanndJse ,w si n CJrhues adKeirn gdefo mV alencia
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18!0-1840
HEATH DILLARD: Daughtoeftr hsRe e conquweosmtei:nCn a sliltioawnsn o ci1e1t0y0,- 1300
JOHN EDWARDS: ChrisCloiradno bJah:ce i tayn di lrse giion/n h lea tMei ddlAeg es
LEONARD FOLGARAIT: SoF arF roHme aveDna:v iAdlf arSoi quei'rTohMsea' r cohfH umaniatnyd'
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MARVIN LUNENFELD: KeepeerfsiC hiet yT:h e' Corregefi dIosraebseI'le lfaC ast(i1l4e7 4-1504)
LINDA MARTZ: PoveratnydW elfairnHe a bsbuSrpga itnh:ee x ampelfTe o ledo
ANTHONY PAGDEN: TheF alefl N aturMaaln :t hAem ericIannd iaannd! hoer igoifnc so mparalive
ethnology
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DAVID E. VASSBERG: Landa ndS ociientG yo ldenC-aAsgtei le
GabrieGla rciMaa rquez
New Readings
EDITED BY
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Contents
Note on the translations page vii
List of contributors Vlll
Introduction
BERNARD MCGUIRK
Characterization in the early fiction of Gabriel Garcia
Marquez
RICHARD CARDWELL 5
2 Beware of gift-bearing tales: reading 'Baltazar's
Prodigious Afternoon' according to Marcel Mauss
EDUARDO GONZ LEZ
A
3 The body as political instrument: communication in No
One Writes to the Colonel
REN PRIETO 33
E
4 Magical realism and the theme of incest in One Hundred
rears of Solitude
EDWIN WILLIAMSON 45
5 Translation and genealogy: One Hundred rears of Solitude
ANIBAL GONZALEZ 65
6 The humour of One Hundred rears of Solitude
CLIVE GRIFFIN 81
7 On 'magical' and social realism in Garcia Marquez
GERALD MARTIN 95
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CONTENTS
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8 Aspects of narrative structure in The Incredible and Sad
Story ef the Innocent Erendira and her Heartless Grandmother
MARK MILLINGTON I I7
9 Language and power in The Autumn ef the Patriarch
JO LABANYI I 5
3
IO Writing and ritual in Chronicle of a Death Foretold
CARLOS ALONSO
1 I Free-play of fore-play: the fiction of non-consummation:
speculations on Chronicle ef a Death Foretold
BERNARD MCGUIRK I69
I 2 A prospective post-script : apropos of Love in the Times of
Cholera
ROBIN FIDDIAN
The solitude of Latin America: Nobel address Ig82
GABRIEL GARcIA MARQUEZ, translated by RICHARD
CARDWELL 207
Select bibliography
JOHN WAINWRIGHT 2I2
Index
RICHARD CARDWELL 225
Note on the translations
In each case, the contributors to this volume have
opted to provide their own version of extracts from
Garcia Marquez's original text. A list of available
published translations of his major works may be
found in the select bibliography.
Vll
Contributors
DrC arlJo.As l oniss Aoss istant Professor of Romance Languages
and Literatures in the Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecti
cut, USA. Among his interests is the novela de la tierra on which he has
published a monograph study. He has also written articles on
Carpentier, Cortazar, Donoso, Sarmiento and other Latin American
writers.
DrR ichaAr.Cd a rdwies Plrolfe ssor of Modern Spanish Literature
in the University of Nottingham, England. His major interests are in
Romanticism and the European.fin de siecle. He has written books on
Espronceda, Blasco Ibanez and Juan Ramon Jimenez, numerous
articles on Spanish literature and has published editions of Gil, Reina
and Icaza. He is currently writing a study of modernismo and
Symbolism in Spain.
DrR obiWn.F iddiis aLenct urer in Spanish and Latin American
Studies in the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, England. His
research interests embrace the Spanish novel in the twentieth century
and contemporary fiction in Latin America. He is also interested in
aspects of comparative literature and the Spanish cinema since the
Civil War. He has published studies of the Spanish Genera tio n of 1 898
and of the novels of the contemporary period in Spain and Latin
America.
DrA nibGaoln zalis eAszsis tant Professor of Spanish American
Literature in the University of Texas at Austin, USA. His academic
interests are modernismo, nineteenth-century Latin American fiction,
Hispanic Caribbean literature and literary theory. He has published a
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Contributors lX
book on the cr6nica modernista, articles on Rafael Sanchez and others;
he has a forthcoming study of the novela modernista hispanoamericana and
is working on the influence of journalism on the development of the
Latin American narrative.
DrE duarGdoon zails Aesszoc iate Professor in the Department of
Hispanic and Italian Studies in the Johns Hopkins University, USA.
His major field ofinterest is Latin American fiction. He has published
numerous articles in this field, a book on Carpentier, a book on
psychoanalytical criticism and a forthcoming study ofCortazar. He is
at present working on Roa Bastos.
DrC liGvrei ffiisn F ellow and Tutor in Spanish in Trinity College,
Oxford, England, and University Lecturer in Latin American
Literature. His interests embrace the history of printing in sixteenth
century Spain and Latin America, on which he has recently published
a book, and Latin American prose fiction. He is currently writing a
study of Azuela's Los de abajo.
JoL abanisy Sien ior Lecturer in Spanish in Birkbeck College,
University of London, England. Her major interest is in the fiction of
the modern period in Spain and Latin America on which she has
written a series of articles, including a book on Luis Martin Santos.
She has also translated contemporary Spanish and Latin American
poetry and fiction.
DrG erald Mias Prrotfeissonr of Hispanic and Latin American
Studies in Portsmouth Polytechnic, England. His interests lie in the
social and historical aspects of literary creativity. His publications
include an edition of Miguel Angel Asturias and articles on Latin
American literature and culture.
DrB ernaMrcdG uiris kL ecturer in Hispanic Studies in the
University of Nottingham, England, where he is also responsible for
postgraduate studies in critical theory. He has written on the
application of contemporary literary theory to works in French,
Spanish and Portuguese. He is currently writing a book on post
structuralist approaches to Latin American literature.
x CONTRIBUTORS
DrM arkM illinisg Ltecotunre r in Latin American Studies in the
University of Nottingham, England. His academic interests include
the application of recent narratological theory to Latin American
fiction, critical theory and the cinema. He has published a book on
Onetti and articles on Borges and Garcia Marquez.
DrR enPer ieist Aoss istant Professor of Spanish in the Southern
Methodist University of Dallas, Texas, USA. He specializes in the
application of critical theory to contemporary Latin American
fiction. He has published numerous articles in this field including
studies of Arguedas, Borges, Onetti, Sarduy, Vargas Llosa, and is
presently completing a book on the indigenista fiction of Miguel Angel
Asturias.
JohWna inwriisg Ahssitsta nt Librarian at the Taylor Institution
Library, University of Oxford, England, where he is in charge of
Hispanic collections.
DrE dwiWni lliamis sLeoctnur er in Spanish and Latin American
Studies in Birkbeck College, University of London, England. His
principal interest is in the fiction of sixteenth- and seventeenth
century Spain and he is author of a major study of Cervantes. He is
also working on Latin American fiction and its historical background.
