Gabriel Garcia Marquez and the Powers of Fiction

by Julio Ortega

Together with the late Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel Garc a M rquez, 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292723709
• ISBN13: 9780292723702
• Release Date: July 1988
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"