Gabriel García Márquez: Solitude and Solidarity

173 Pages·1993·15.596 MB·English

by  Michael Bell (auth.)

MODERN NOVELISTS
General Editor: Norman Page
MODERN NOVELISTS
Published titles
SAUL BELLOW Peter Hyland
ALBERT CAMUS Philip Thody
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY Peter Conradi
GEORGE ELIOT Alan W. Bell ringer
WILLIAM FAULKNER David Dowling
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD John Whitley
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT David Roe
E. M. FORSTER Norman Page
ANDRE GIDE David Walker
WILLIAM GOLDING James Gindin
GRAHAM GREENE Neil McEwan
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Peter Messent
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD Stephen Wade
HENRY JAMES Alan W. BeHringer
JAMES JOYCE Richard Brown
D. H. LAWRENCE G. M. Hyde
ROSAMOND LEHMANN Judy Simons
DORIS LESSING Ruth Whittaker
MALCOLM LOWRY Tony Bareham
THOMAS MANN Martin Travers
GABRIEL GARCiA MARQUEZ Michael Bell
V. S. NAIPAUL Bmce King
GEORGE ORWELL Valerie Meyers
ANTHONY POWELL Neil McEwan
MARCEL PROUST Philip Thody
BARBARA PYM Michael Cotsell
VLADIMIR NABOKOV David Rampton
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Philip Thody
SIX WOMEN NOVELISTS Merryn Williams
MURIEL SPARK Norman Page
JOHN UPDIKE Judie Newman
EVELYN WAUGH Jacqueline McDonnell
H. G. WELLS Michael Draper
PATRICK WHITE Mark Williams
VIRGINIA WOOLF Edward Bishop
Farthroming titleJ
MARGARET ATWOOD Coral Ann Howells
IVY COMPTON-BURNETT Janet Godden
JOSEPH CONRAD Owen Knowles
.JOHN FOWLES James Acheson
FRANZ KAFKA Ronald Speirs and Beatrice Sandberg
NORMAN MAILER Michael Glenday
IRIS MURDOCH Hilda Spear
PAUL SCOTT G. K. Das
MARK TWAIN Peter Messent
MODERN NOVELISTS
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GABRIEL GARCIA
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MARQUEZ
Solitude and Solidarity
Michael Bell
Macmillan Education
ISBN 978-0-333-53766-4 ISBN 978-1-349-23015-0 (eBook)
DOI 10.1007/978-1-349-23015-0
©Michael Bell1993
Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1993
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First published in the United States of America in 1993
ISBN 978-0-312-09988-6
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Bell, Michael, 1941-
Gabriel Garcia Marquez : solitude and solidarity I Michael Bell.
p. em.- (Modern novelists)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-312-09988-6
1. Garda Marquez, Gabriel, 1928- -Criticism and
interpretation. I. Title. II. Series.
PQ8180.17A73Z593 1993
863--dc20 93-19293
CIP
A Ia familia Rodriguez
' ... closely related to conscientiousness is loneliness- it is perhaps
only another name for it: that loneliness, you see, that is so difficult
for the artist to differentiate from public life.'
'. . . that solidarity of conscience that binds an artist to his true
public.'
Thomas Mann, Reflections of an Unpolitical Man
Contents
Acknowledgements ix
A Note on Translation X
General Editor's Preface xi
1 Introduction 1
2 Biographical Summary 6
3 Journalism and Fiction 11
Fiction versus Politics? 11
i. The Outsider Within: Leaf Storm 12
ii. 'Saving the Appearances': No One Writes
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iii. 'Bursting to Talk': In Evil Hour 30
4 The Cervantean Tum: One Hundred Yean of Solitude 40
i. Insomnia Precedes Amnesia 43
ii. Whose World? 52
iii. History, Fiction and Myth 57
iv. The Cervantean Tum 60
v. Solitude and Solidarity 66
5 The Magical and the Banal: The Autumn of
the Patriarch 10
6 Male Tragedy/Female Novella: Chronicle of a
Death Foretold 84
7 Not Flaubert's Parrot: Love in the Time of
Cholera 106
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8 Solitude and Solidarity: The General in his
Labyrinth 127
9 Conclusion 144
Notes 147
Select Bibliography 155
Index 158
Acknowledgements
One of the pleasures of writing on Garcia Marquez has been
the intellectual hospitality of Latin American specialists. I wish
particularly to thank John King, Edwin Williamson and Michael
Wood for advice and encouragement. Also, as usual, Susan Bell.
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