The Cambridge Introduction to Gabriel García Márquez Martin Hardback

The Cambridge Introduction to Gabriel Garca MrquezAuthor(s): Gerald Martin\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521895613, 978-0521895613\nSynopsis\nThe Colombian Nobel Prize winner, Gabriel Garca Mrquez (b. 1927), wrote two of the great novels of the twentieth century, One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera. As novelist, short story writer and journalist, Garca Mrquez has one of literature's most instantly recognizable styles and since the beginning of his career has explored a consistent set of themes, revolving around the relationship between power and love. His novels exemplify the transition between modernist and post-modernist fiction and have made magical realism one of the most significant and influential phenomena in contemporary writing. Aimed at students of Latin American and comparative literature, this book provides essential information about Garca Mrquez's life.