• Born March 6, 1927 (Aracataca, Colombia)

• Luisa Santiaga Márquez

• Gabriel Elijio García (postal clerk/ telegraph operator/ itinerant pharmacist)

• spent 1st 8 yrs. w/ maternal grandparents

• Education=

• most important literary sources=

• stories about Aracataca and his fam that grandpa Nic shared

• Studied law/ Became a journalist

• Employment

• late 1950s- early 1960s

• Bogotá, Colombia & New York City (Prensa Latina news service)

• Died April 17, 2014 (Mexico City, Mexico)

• lymphatic cancer (1999)

• senile dymentia (2012)

• Who Was He/ Why Care?

• Colombian novelist

• Best known Latin American writer in Latin American history

• one of greatest writers of 20th cent.

• best known w/ Jorge Luis Borges

• Excellent Short Stories

• Accomplished Journalist

• Accessible to the common reader

• BUT also pleasing demanding critiques

• Works

• Setting of most novels=

• provincial Colombia

• medieval/ modern practices & beliefs clash

• comically/ tragically

• One Hundred Years of Solitude

• Noticia de un Secuestro (1996, News of a Kidnapping, journalists chronicle)

• drug- related kidnappings in Colombia

• Vivir Para Contarla (2002, Living to Tell the Tale, memoir)

• written after diagnosed w/ cancer

• first 30 yrs of life

• Memoria de Mis Putas Tristes (2004, Memories of my Melancholy Whores, novel)

• lonely man finds meaning of love when hires virginal prostitute to celebrate 90th bday

• Awards

• Nobel Prize for Literature (1982)

• Cien Años de Soledad (1967)

• masterpiece

• 100 Years of Solitude

• 4th Latin American to win Nobel Prize for Lit

• Comparable to?

• William Faulkner

• Ernest Hemingway

• Why?

• minutely woven plots

• brief/ tightly knit narratives

• Miguel de Cervantes

• Why?

• easy flow of intricate stories

• irony

• humor

CH. 2- All About Bayardo and Illusions

CH. 3- But it was an honor killing!

CH. 4- How Santiago Died Twice & Angela the Liar

CH. 5- "He Died Without Understanding His Death"

• Foreshadowing

• Illusions

• Symbolism

• Imagery/ sensory details

• Figurative Language

• Littered throughout novella

• Repetition

• “There was never a death more foretold” (57)

• constant drinking

• esp w/ coffee

• Dialect of characters

• Poetic

• Blunt

• Dramatic

• Humor

• “bird shit”

• “cult of death”

• personal
• realistic
• apolitical

Garcia Marquez traveled here as child.

"Truths are illusions which we have forgotten are illusions."

- Settled at the beginning of the 1900s in Caribbean towns

- Vital

-Sold colored cloth

-bazaar trinkets

-Clannish

-Hardworking

-Catholic

-Loved Playing Card

• 1950s

• town in Colombia by Caribbean Sea

• Monday Morning after Angela's wedding

• modeled after Aracataca, Colombia (writer’s home)

• Magic Realism

• Illusions

• Symbolism

• Poetic/ figurative lang.

• Dreams

• Foreshadow death of Santiago

• Weather

• Rain symbolizes death of Santiago

• Religion

• ultimate demise