Collected Stories - Hardcover

Garcia Marquez, Gabriel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0224032399 ISBN 13: 9780224032391

Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1991

Synopsis

Published together in one volume for the first time, this book contains all the short stories of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Opening with 'The Third Resignation', a strange and haunting tale of a man living his own death, and concluding with the story of Innocent Erendira, the young girl who accidentally burns down the house of her grandmother and is forced into a life of prostitution and slavery to repay her debt, in between come a further twenty-four stories all teeming with invention, fluctuation between despair and optimism. In one a dying senator fins the woman of his life, another a bedraggled angel crash-lands in a village; and 'for all the world's unbelievers', her is the 'true account of Big Mama, absolute sovereign of the Kingdom of Macondo, who lived for ninety-two years, and died in the odour of sanctity last one Tuesday last September, and whose funeral was attended by the Pope'. Marquez's stories, we know, are dazzling; but to read them in this collection is to embark upon a journey deep into the inseparable worlds of reality and illusion which are the hallmark of his fiction, a journey to the heart of consciousness itself. The Collected Stories not only displays the range of his unique talent, it demonstrates a complete vision and is further testimony to the genius of a brilliant myth-maker and master fabulist.

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Review:

"Garca Mrquez has extraordinary strength and firmness of imagination and writes with the calmness of a man who knows exactly what wonders he can perform." -- Alfred Kazin, New York Times Book Review

"It is the genius of Garca Mrquez that fatalism and possibility somehow coexist, that dreams redeem, that there is laughter even in death." -- John Leonard, New York Times

"Garc?a M?rquez has extraordinary strength and firmness of imagination and writes with the calmness of a man who knows exactly what wonders he can perform."--Alfred Kazin, New York Times Book Review

"It is the genius of Garc?a M?rquez that fatalism and possibility somehow coexist, that dreams redeem, that there is laughter even in death."--John Leonard, New York Times

"The stories are rich and startling in their matter and confident and eloquent in their manner...They are the word cannot be avoided--magical."--John Updike, The New Yorker

The stories are rich and startling in their matter and confident and eloquent in their manner...They are the word cannot be avoided--magical. --John Updike, The New Yorker"

Garc?a M?rquez has extraordinary strength and firmness of imagination and writes with the calmness of a man who knows exactly what wonders he can perform. --Alfred Kazin, New York Times Book Review"

It is the genius of Garc?a M?rquez that fatalism and possibility somehow coexist, that dreams redeem, that there is laughter even in death. --John Leonard, New York Times"

-The stories are rich and startling in their matter and confident and eloquent in their manner...They are the word cannot be avoided--magical.---John Updike, The New Yorker

-Garc?a M?rquez has extraordinary strength and firmness of imagination and writes with the calmness of a man who knows exactly what wonders he can perform.---Alfred Kazin, New York Times Book Review

About the Author:

Gabriel Garcia Marquez was born in Aracataca, Colombia, in 1928. He attended the University of Bogota and later worked as a reporter for the Colombian newspaper El Espectador and as a foreign correspondent in Rome, Barcelona, Caracas, and New York. The author of three novellas (Leaf Storm, No One Writes to the Colonel and Chronicle of a Death Foretold) and several novels - In Evil Hour, The Autumn of the Patriarch, Love in a the Time of Cholera, the internationally bestselling One Hundred Years of Solitude and, more recently, The General in his Labyrinth - he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. He lives in Mexico City.

About this edition

• Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0224032399
• ISBN 13: 9780224032391
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 292