Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Power, History and Love
Ida Brandão e-portfolio online course
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Chronicle of a Death Foretold (Spanish: Crónica de una muerte anunciada) is a novella by Gabriel García Márquez, published in 1981. It tells, in the form of a pseudo-journalistic reconstruction, the story of the murder of Santiago Nasar by the two Vicario brothers.
A review of the Chronicle of a Death Foretold, by Salman Rushdie – http://www.lrb.co.uk/v04/n17/salman-rushdie/angel-gabriel
NYT review by Leonard Michaels – https://www.nytimes.com/books/97/06/15/reviews/marquez-chronicle.html
«Chronicle of a DeathForetold,” which is very strange and brilliantly conceived, is a sort of metaphysical murder mystery in which the detective, Garcia Marquez himself, reconstructs events associated with the murder 27 years earlier of Santiago Nasar, a rich, handsome fellow who lived in the Caribbean town where the author grew up. Thus, as a character in his own novel, Garcia Marquez interviews people who remember the murder and studies documents assembled by the court.e accumulates many kinds of data – dreams, weather reports, gossip, philosophical speculation – and makes a record of what happened first, second, third, etc»
Book review – https://mywordlyobsessions.wordpress.com/2010/08/03/book-review-chronicle-of-a-death-foretold-gabriel-garcia-marquez/
«A vivid portrait of Latin American life that deals with the thorny issues of family honour, vengeance and unspoken, communal rites»
Critical analysis – http://www.shmoop.com/chronicle-of-a-death-foretold/literary-devices.html
http://www.gradesaver.com/chronicle-of-a-death-foretold
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronicle_of_a_Death_Foretold
Assignment: on the end of the novel «Chronicle of a Death Foretold»:
«The death is announced at the beginning of the novel but only at the end the details of the death are described and the victim is his own witness when he ansers his aunt in the past time that «they have killed me» though he is still alive agonizing from the stabbing he suffered. Angela’s untrue confession is probably prejudiced against Nasar but it is also an escape to the spanking of her mother, believing that Santiago was so influent and rich that he would be untouchable and safe to any eventual threat.
The story is not just an investigation about a crime committed by two men, but an entire town’s complicity in that murder, repeatedly announced by the twin brothers, and ultimately, it is a story about a social backward mentality, where prejudice and machismo culture prevails, where values on virginity and family honour justify a crime.
A circular narrative where the narrator tells the tale in such a way that time keeps looping back on itself, flashbacks and flash forwards, digressions, commentaries on the different people involved. The story evolves in uncertainty, like a jigsaw puzzle of conflicting perceptions, dreams, thoughts, ambitions, and desires, in multiple characters viewpoints»
The Hidden Depths of García Márquez’s Chronicle of a Death Foretold. by Ali Shehad Zaidi, 2011
THE HEART'S ETERNAL VOW, book review by Thomas Pynchon, 1988
Psychologcal Analysis of Florentino Ariza’s Sexuality Problem, 2014
Modernity and Marginality in Love in the Time of Cholera, by Mabel Moraña, 1990
The Conflict of Time: Tradition vs. Modernity in Love in the Time of Cholera, by Rachel Smith, 2014
SHARDS OF A GRUESOME MEMORY COMMEMORATED: AN ANALYSIS OF CHRONICLE OF A DEATH FORETOLD, research paper by Minu Susan Koshy, 2014
My video with the Chronicle’s analysis