Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
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This engaging summary presents an analysis of Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez, an intriguing blend of genres in which the main character’s death is announced on the first page. The novella’s narrator attempts to reconstruct the events of that tragic day and find out why, even though everybody in the town knew about the impending murder, nobody intervened to stop it. The story’s apparent simplicity belies its thematic depth, as it raises profound questions about honour and the lengths people are prepared to go to in order to defend it, the legacy of Spanish colonialism in Colombia, and the nature of truth. Gabriel García Márquez was one of the best-known and most-loved Latin American writers of the 20th century, with a career spanning over 50 years. He wrote a series of influential novels, including One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera and The General in His Labyrinth, and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982.
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COLOMBIAN NOVELIST, SHORT STORY WRITER, JOURNALIST AND SCREENWRITER
Born in Aracataca (Colombia) in 1927.
Died in Mexico City in 2014.
Literary awards:
Rómulo Gallegos Prize, 1972 (for One Hundred Years of Solitude)
Nobel Prize in Literature, 1982
Notable honours:
Honorary Doctorate of Letters from Columbia University
Notable works:
No One Writes to the Colonel (1961), novella
One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), novel
Love in the Time of Cholera (1985), novel
Gabriel García Márquez was born in 1927 in the remote, impoverished town of Aracataca in northern Colombia. His main literary influences were the American writer William Faulkner (1897-1962) and his maternal grandparents and aunts, with whom he grew up. His grandfather, who had fought in the Thousand Days’ War (1899-1902), served as a link with his country’s history, while his grandmother taught him to view reality through the lens of magic and superstition.
García Márquez obeyed his father’s wishes by studying law at the National University of Colombia, but his true passion was always writing. In 1950, he abandoned his legal studies and began working as a journalist. His journalism complemented his literary career, brought him into contact with other writers and journalists, such as the members of the Barranquilla Group (so called because they met in the Colombian city of the same name), and led him to take an extended trip to Paris, where he met writers including Mario Vargas Llosa (Peruvian writer and Nobel Prize winner, born in 1936) and