{"product_id":"gabriel-garcia-marquez-and-the-powers-of-fiction-paperback","title":"Gabriel Garcia Marquez and the Powers of Fiction - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJulio Ortega\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTogether with the late Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel García Márquez, the 1982 Nobel laureate, stands at the pinnacle of Latin American literature. His work, in the words of Julio Ortega, \"contains its own 'deconstructive' force-a literary power capable of reshaping natural order and rhetorical tradition in order to 'carnivalize' the Borges' library and allow us to hear the voices-and the laughter-of a culture, that of Latin America.\" This reshaping force invites us to read the works of García Márquez in a new way, one that bypasses the traditional, inadequate approaches through Latin American politics, history, and \"magical realism.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eGabriel García Márquez and the Powers of Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e, noted scholars Julio Ortega, Ricardo Gutiérrez Mouat, Michael Palencia-Roth, Aníbal González, and Gonzalo Díaz-Migoyo offer English-speaking readers a new approach to García Márquez's work. Their poststructuralist readings focus on the peculiar sign-system, formal configuration, intradiscursivity, and unfolding representation in the novels \u003ci\u003eOne Hundred Years of Solitude\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNo One Writes to the Colonel\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eIn Evil Hour\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Autumn of the Patriarch\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eChronicle of a Death Foretold\u003c\/i\u003e and in several of the author's short stories. Also included as an appendix is a translation of García Márquez's Nobel Prize acceptance speech, \"The Solitude of Latin America.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJulio Ortega has been called \"Peru's leading literary intellectual\" (American Book Review). He is Professor of Hispanic Studies at Brown University and has published many works of his own fiction, drama, and poetry, as well as numerous critical editions and works of literary criticism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 104\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.26 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 01, 1988\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45308479144038,"sku":"9780292723702","price":44.35,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/cld1L1J3c3E2WXVDODRSRkhwdnBqZz09.webp?v=1774176625","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/gabriel-garcia-marquez-and-the-powers-of-fiction-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}