Author: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Publisher: Penguin
Year: 1996
Language: English
Pages: 292
ISBN/UPC (if available): 0140157565
Description
Translated from the Spanish, this collection of 26 stories enables the reader to chart Marquez's progress from his early work to his major novels.
Starting with the Third Resignation and finishing with The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Erendira and Her Heartless Grandmother maps the literary path of Marquez from the formal experimentation of his early work to the full-blown magical realism of his major novels. In other words it becomes more and more fun to read It shows what fabulous really means.
PRESS REVIEWS:
Full of premonitions and echoes of the larger fiction. Marquez has always been a romantic, and these stories abound with love affairs, ruined beauty, and magical women. It is essence of Marqueez. - Guardian
A single sentence of Garcia Marquez often has more meat to it than many whole novels. _ Observer
Marquez vision is quite the nearest thing to pure sensual pleasure that prose can offer. - Daily Telegraph
Of all the living authors known to me, only one is undoubtedly touched by genius: Gabriel Garcia Marquez..The exactitude and felicity of his imagery are so great that reading a five-page story written as a single sentence - The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship - is a pleasure rather than a chore. - Sunday Telegraph