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CAMBRIDGE 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 B. w. 1 FE: ReadianngdF ictiinoG no lden-SApgaeia n P:l atocnriisttia qnudse o mpei carerseqpulei es 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 HENRY w. su LLIV AN:C aldeirnot nhG ee rmaLna ndasn tdh Leo wCo unlrhiiersse :c epatnidiorifl nu ence, 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 M 1 c HAE L P. cos TEL o E: RespotnosR ee voluJIimopne:rS ipaalia nn dS paniAsmhe ricraenv olulions, 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' MexicRaenv olutiPoonlairlyi cs JUAN LOPEZ-MORILLAS: TheK rausMiosvle meanntdId eologCihcaanlgi enS pai1n8,5 4-1874 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 EVELYN s. PROCTER: Curiaan Cdo r/iensL eoann Cda sliIl0e7,2 -1295 A. c. DE c. M. SAUNDERS: A SociHails toerfBy l acSkl avaensdF reedimenPn o rtu1g4a4l1,- 1555 DAVID E. VASSBERG: Landa ndS ociientG yo ldenC-aAsgtei le GabrieGla rciMaa rquez New Readings EDITED BY BERNARD McGUIRK AND RICHARD CARDWELL Ther ighotf1 he UniverosfiC l_avm bridge top rilll saenlld u/I manneorf b ooks wasR t'Olflbeyd HenrVIy II inJ SJ4. The Univtrhsaistp yr intetl andp ublischoendt inuo11.1/y sinc15e8 <1. CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS CAMBRIDGE NEW YORK NEW ROCHELLE MELBOURNE SYDNEY CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, Sao Paulo, Delhi, Dubai, Tokyo Cambridge University Press The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge CB2 8RU, UK Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York www.cambridge.org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9780521122825 © The Nobel Foundation 1987 This publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published 1987 This digitally printed version 2009 A catalogue record for this publication is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication data Gabriel Garcia Marquez: new readings. (Cambridge Iberian and Latin American studies) Bibliography. Includes index. 1. Garcia Marquez, Gabriel, 1928--Criticism and interpretation. I. McGuirk, Bernard. II. Cardwell, Richard Andrew. III. Series. 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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 v CONTENTS � 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 Vlll 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.