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Gene H. Bell-Villada is professor of Romance languages at Williams College.
Introduction. García Márquez: His Vast Range, His Varied Legacy
Gene H. Bell-Villada
Part One. Oeuvre, Backgrounds, Legacy
1. García Márquez: Writer for the World
Nicholas Birns and Juan De Castro
2. Politics and Death across the Life of Writing
Regina Janes
3. Translation and Apprenticeship
Edith Grossman
4. García Márquez and mamagallismo: On Fatigued Roosters, Resistance, Sense of Humor, and the Colombian Personality
Marcela Velasco
Part Two. Re-reading the History of Macondo
5. Names and Narrative Pattern in One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gene H. Bell-Villada
6. The Enlightened Blindness of Úrsula Iguarán
María del Mar López-Cabrales
7. Satire, Ecocentrism, and Luddite Discourse in One Hundred Years of Solitude: Regional Approaches for a Global Environmental Crisis
William Flores
8. Rediscovering Ice: García Márquez, Aira, and Vallejo on Childhood Memories
Héctor HoyosPart Three. Later Works
9. After the End: Bolívar in the Labyrinth of History
Michael Wood
10. The Magic of Love, the Horrors of Death, and Other Themes in the Short Stories of García Márquez
by Rubén Pelayo
11. Gastronomical Pilgrims
Fernando Valerio-Holguín
12. Reading Illness in Gabriel García Márquez’s Of Love and Other Demons
Olivia Vázquez-Medina
13. Magical Realism as a Simple Tool to Elicit Humor in Of Loveand Other Demons
Ignacio López-CalvoPart Four. Other Genres, Other Media
14. The Permutations of the Fictional, Non-Fictional, and Autobiographical ‘I’ in the works of Gabriel García Márquez
Robert L. Sims
15. Doomed from the Start: Big-Screen Adaptations of Two García Márquez Novels
Rudyard Alcocer and Haley Osborn
16. Remembering Broadway’s Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Zhanna Gurvich
Gene Bell-Villada's new collection of essays provides much for general readers, students and specialists alike, who are offered an array of critical approaches with which to spar, ranging from the contextual, biographical, literary and literary-historical to the ecocritical, demythifying and on occasion densely theoretical. Particularly welcome is the volume's emphasis on García Márquez's later writing.
— Clive Griffin, Emeritus Fellow, Trinity College, University of Oxford
[T]he best homage to a great author is to imagine ways to read his work anew. Gene Bell-Villada’s timely selection of essays does exactly that: it sheds new light on a multifaceted writer that still manages to stimulate the critical imagination of readers from around the world. . . . Among its many virtues, this book reminds us that García Márquez embodied a unique pleasure in the act of writing. Most of the collection’s papers share this “joie d’ecrire,” as they combine rigor, poetry, and a dose of playful wit that suits the analysis of a lyrical mamagallista like Gabo. Among them, Bell-Villada’s own good-humored introduction is unparalleled. This tone allows many of the texts to both celebrate the writer and deal with him in an intellectually nuanced way that, instead of solidifying the icy statue of the canonic author, brings a renewed warmth to his work and makes him, once again, our contemporary.
— Hispanofila
This exemplary collection of essays is illuminating, ample, accessible, and ultimately essential for understanding how García Márquez is read today.
— Randolph D. Pope, University of Virginia
Gene Bell-Villada's new collection of essays provides much for general readers, students and specialists alike, who are offered an array of critical approaches with which to spar, ranging from the contextual, biographical, literary and literary-historical to the ecocritical, demythifying and on occasion densely theoretical. Particularly welcome is the volume's emphasis on García Márquez's later writing.
— Clive Griffin, Emeritus Fellow, Trinity College, University of Oxford
This exemplary collection of essays is illuminating, ample, accessible, and ultimately essential for understanding how García Márquez is read today.
— Randolph D. Pope, University of Virginia