Class Handouts:
Internet Resources:
- This page for teachers, created by the book's U.S. publisher, has a good plot summary with analysis...and some questions and assignments for you, too.
- An excellent online biography of García Marquez is on Alan Ruch's The Modern Word, a site dedicated to modern authors, well-known and lesser-known.
- If you're thinking of a career as an eternal graduate student at some North American university, you'll be right at home with Susan Smith Nash's take on Chronicle, with its references to "dialogical imagination," "the disembodied collective self," and "the notion of artifice and a constructed reality."
- García Marquez won the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature. In his Nobel Lecture, he took a look at Latin America, its isolation and its aspirations: "Why is the originality so readily granted us in literature so mistrustfully denied us in our difficult attempts at social change? Why think that the social justice sought by progressive Europeans for their own countries cannot also be a goal for Latin America, with different methods for dissimilar conditions?" (This lecture, and his Banquet Speech, are available on the site in Spanish, as well.)
- BBC Reporter Richard McColl took a tour of Colombia "in search of places that have inspired García Marquez".
- I enjoyed this reflection by García Marquez on one of his own literary heroes, Ernest Hemingway.