{"product_id":"9781861897633","title":"Gabriel Garcia Marquez","description":"\u003cp\u003e“Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.” Thus begins Nobel Prize winner Gabriel García Márquez’s \u003ci\u003eOne Hundred Years of Solitude,\u003c\/i\u003e one of the twentieth century’s most lauded works of fiction. In \u003ci\u003eGabriel García Márquez\u003c\/i\u003e, literary scholar Stephen M. Hart provides a succinct yet thorough look into García Márquez’s life and the political struggles of Latin America that have influenced his work, from \u003ci\u003eLove in the Time of Cholera \u003c\/i\u003eto \u003ci\u003eMemories of My Melancholy Whores\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e            By interviewing García Márquez’s family in Cuba, Hart was able to gain a unique perspective on his use of “creative false memory,” providing new insight into the magical realism that dominates García Márquez’s oeuvre. Using these interviews and his original research, Hart defines five ingredients that are critical to García Márquez’s work: magical realism, a shortened and broken portrayal of time, punchy one-liners, dark and absurd humor, and political allegory. These elements, as described by Hart, illuminate the extraordinary allure of García Márquez’s work and provide fascinating insight into his approach to writing. Hart also explores the divisions between García Márquez’s everyday life and his life as a writer, and the connection in his work between family history and national history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGabriel García Márquez\u003c\/i\u003e presents an original portrait of this well-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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Reaktion Books, Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47051501437168,"sku":"9781861897633","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781861897633_p0.jpg?v=1763600970","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781861897633","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}