Collected Stories by Js Bernstein
Published together in one volume for the first time, this book contains all the short stories of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Opening with 'The Third Resignation', a strange and haunting tale of a man living his own death, and concluding with the story of Innocent Erendira, the young girl who accidentally burns down the house of her grandmother and is forced into a life of prostitution and slavery to repay her debt, in between come a further twenty-four stories all teeming with invention, fluctuation between despair and optimism. In one a dying senator fins the woman of his life, another a bedraggled angel crash-lands in a village; and 'for all the world's unbelievers', her is the 'true account of Big Mama, absolute sovereign of the Kingdom of Macondo, who lived for ninety-two years, and died in the odour of sanctity last one Tuesday last September, and whose funeral was attended by the Pope'. Marquez's stories, we know, are dazzling; but to read them in this collection is to embark upon a journey deep into the inseparable worlds of reality and illusion which are the hallmark of his fiction, a journey to the heart of consciousness itself. The Collected Stories not only displays the range of his unique talent, it demonstrates a complete vision and is further testimony to the genius of a brilliant myth-maker and master fabulist.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez was born in Aracataca, Colombia, in 1928. He attended the University of Bogota and later worked as a reporter for the Colombian newspaper El Espectador and as a foreign correspondent in Rome, Barcelona, Caracas, and New York. The author of three novellas (Leaf Storm, No One Writes to the Colonel and Chronicle of a Death Foretold) and several novels - In Evil Hour, The Autumn of the Patriarch, Love in a the Time of Cholera, the internationally bestselling One Hundred Years of Solitude and, more recently, The General in his Labyrinth - he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. He lives in Mexico City.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780224032391 |
| ISBN 10 | 0224032399 |
| Title | Collected Stories |
| Author | Js Bernstein |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 1991-09-19 |
| Number of pages | 292 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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