INTRODUCTION TO MARQUEZ

INTRODUCTION to marquez

Latin American literature till the threshold of 19th century was principally based on Iberian models. The contemporary scene begins around the year 1940. The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) and the unequal fratricide made a tremor in the Latin American minds. As a consequence the reading materials from Spain were cut short. The liberal intellectuals of Spain migrated to the continent. It was not merely a voyage to rediscover the roots. By the hands of the 'Boom writers ' Latin Americans became the producers of literature. They were considered as customers in the past.
Marquez believes that any novel has the spirit to unravel the world. Then a good novel becomes a poetic transcript of reality. "Good novel must be a poetic transposition of reality" (Apuleyo Mendoza 97). In the world of his novels the real and fantastic merge the anachronistic and contemporaneous fuse and co-exist and ultimately the narration moves forward and backward. His no...