Gabriel García Márquez

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Restoring a tradition of writing that seemed dead... García Márquez rediscovers that the novelist is God, that the limits of literature are those of reality-that it has no limits and that all excesses are pertnissible to the creator if he has the sufficient verbalpower of persuasion to justify them. -MARIO VARGAS LLOSA García Márquez's energizing recognition.. .is that everything is permitted the novelist, who is under the sole obligation to be interesting. Nothing is sacrosanct, least of all our deepest fears and desires, which lend themselves wonderfully to grotesque, comic depiction. -WILLIAM PLUMMER García Márquez's fiction transmutes our temporal world into a timeless mythic realm that is at once about history and beyond it. -LOIS P. ZAMORA Modern Critical Views is a gathering of a representative selection of the best contemporary criticism of the poets, novelists, essayists, and playwrights of the Western world who are most widely studied and read. This series of more than 300... Tovább

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Restoring a tradition of writing that seemed dead... García Márquez rediscovers that the novelist is God, that the limits of literature are those of reality-that it has no limits and that all excesses are pertnissible to the creator if he has the sufficient verbalpower of persuasion to justify them. -MARIO VARGAS LLOSA García Márquez's energizing recognition.. .is that everything is permitted the novelist, who is under the sole obligation to be interesting. Nothing is sacrosanct, least of all our deepest fears and desires, which lend themselves wonderfully to grotesque, comic depiction. -WILLIAM PLUMMER García Márquez's fiction transmutes our temporal world into a timeless mythic realm that is at once about history and beyond it. -LOIS P. ZAMORA Modern Critical Views is a gathering of a representative selection of the best contemporary criticism of the poets, novelists, essayists, and playwrights of the Western world who are most widely studied and read. This series of more than 300 volumes contains essays from every major school of criticism and extends from the ancients to contemporary authors. Each volume in the series opens with an introductory critical essay by Harold Bloom and an editor's note that comments on the individual analyses that follow. Alsó included are a bibliography, notes on the contributors, and a chronology of the author's life. The series arranges authors into these groups: the Ancient World; the Middle Ages and Renaissance; the Enlightenment; British and American Romantics; the Victorians; the American Renaissance; Modern American Novelists and Short Story Writers; Modern American Poets and Dramatists; Canadian Writers; Modern British Authors; Contemporary British Authors; Contemporary American Novelists and Short Story Writers; Contemporary American Poets and Dramatists; Germán, Scandinavian, and Russian Writers; and French, Italian, Spanish, and Latin American Writers. This series is a critical portrait of the writers who, from ancient times to the present, have shaped Western tradition. Modern Critical Views reflects both the evolution of literary styles and ideas in Western culture and the present standing of authors in the estimate of all of today's major critical schools. Vissza