García Márquez

Gabriel García Márquez is one of the most influential writers of our time with a unique literary creativity rooted in the history of his native Colombia. This revised and expanded edition of a classic work is the first book of criticism to consider in detail the totality of García Márquez’s magnificent oeuvre.<br/><br/>In a beautifully written examination Gene Bell-Villada traces the major forces that have shaped the novelist and describes his life his personality and his politics. For this edition Bell-Villada adds new chapters to cover all of García Márquez’s fiction since 1988 from <i>The General in His Labyrinth</i> through <i>Memories of My Melancholy Whores</i> and includes sections on his memoir <i>Living to Tell the Tale</i> and his journalistic account <i>News of a Kidnapping</i>. Moreover new information about García Márquez’s biography and artistic development make this the most comprehensive account of his life and work available.