Abstract
In this section Anna Marie Taylor presents an analysis of Gabriel Garcia Márquez' famous book, Cien años de soledad. Garcia Márquez is, without doubt, one of the best-known Colombians in the world today. Not only is he an artist of the highest order, he is a Colombian fully dedicated to revolutionary practice. His leadership in the campaign against the Chilean fascists has taken him around the world; in Colombia he was one of the founders of Alternativa, an independent Marxist magazine, and he is presently editor and a regular contributor. His popularity with the Colombian left has led many to speculate that he may become an electoral candidate for a broad left-coalition in the future. It should be noted, however, that Garcia Márquez has vehemently denied this speculation.
Anna Marie Taylor, who teaches Spanish at the University of Chicago, has done more than the currently fashionable, if socially vacuous, textual "criticism." She places the novel in a socio-historical context, and evaluates its merits on grounds of social and political, as well as textual, coherence.
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