Includes bibliographical references and index

On Gabriel García Márquez Ilan Stavans -- Biography of GabrielGarcía Márquez Roy Arthur Swanson -- The Paris review perspective Caitlin Roper -- Gabriel García Márquez: cultural and historical contexts Amy Sickels -- The master of Aracataca Ilan Stavans -- Remedios the child bride: the forgotten buendía Amy M. Green -- García a Márquez's investigation of Cold War Soviet Europe: its Cervantine invocation John Cussen -- The master of short forms Gene H. Bell-Villada -- Magic realism and García Márquez's Eréndira Moylan C. Mills and Enrique Grönlund -- "The paralysis of the instant": the stagnation of history and the stylistic suspension of time in Gabriel García Márquez's La hojarasca Deborah Cohn -- A "gyrating wheel" Rosa Simas -- The dark side of magical realism: science, oppression, and apocalypse in One hundred years of solitude Brian Conniff -- Superstition, irony, themes Stephen M. Hart -- Intertextualities: three metamorphoses of myth in The autumn of the Patriarch Michael Palencia-Roth -- Biblical justice and the military hero in two novels of Gabriel García Márquez Lourdes Elena Morales-Gudmundsson -- The dangers of gullible reading: narrative as seduction in García Márquez Love in the time of cholera M. Keith Booker -- Lessons from the golden age in Gabriel García Márquez Living to tell the tale Efraín Kristal

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