![]() ![]() He dropped out of college to work as a reporter for the daily paper, El heraldo, in Barranquilla and began writing short stories. He had to transfer to the University of Cartagena when civil war erupted and closed the University of Bogota. In 1947, García Márquez entered the National University of Colombia, in Bogota, to study law. His extended family regaled him with stories: the women told tales of superstition and fantasy, while the men-especially his grandfather-kept him grounded in reality. As a result, García Márquez grew up in a house with his grandparents, aunts, and uncles and hardly knew his mother. In his case, though, his grandparents offered to raise him as a reconciliatory gesture towards their daughter after opposing her marriage to García Márquez's father. According to Márquez, this is a common practice in the Caribbean. ![]() The son of poor parents, Gabriel Eligio Garcia and Luisa Santiaga Márquez Iguarán, García Márquez lived with his grandparents for the first eight years of his life. García Márquez's artistry in combining these elements led critic Edith Grossman to say in Review, "Once again García Márquez is an ironic chronicler who dazzles the reader with uncommon blendings of fantasy, fable, and fact." Author Biographyīest known as the author of the prizewinning One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez began life in Aracataca, Colombia, on March 6, 1928. As in other García Márquez works, there is also an element of the supernatural: dreams and other mystical signs ominously portend the murder. The question of male honor in Latin American culture underlies this story of passion and crime. Even though the murderers' identities are known, the specific details of the killing are not.īesides its unusual point of view, the book's themes also contribute to its success. In addition, the repeated foretelling of the crime helps build the suspense. García Márquez's use of this creative technique adds to the mystery of the murder. Yet the narrator is recounting the tale years later from an omniscient point of view, sharing all of the characters' thoughts. A narrator tells the story in the first person, as a witness to the events that occurred. The book's power lies in the unique way in which García Márquez relates the plot of a murder about which everyone knows before it happens. According to Jonathan Yardley in Washington Post Book World, Chronicle of a Death Foretold "is, in miniature, a virtuoso performance." Gabriel García Márquez's novel Chronicle of a Death Foretold, first published in English in 1982, is one of the Nobel Prizewinning author's shorter novels, but past and current critics agree that the book's small size hides a huge work of art. ![]()
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