Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-68710-2 - The Cambridge Companion to Gabriel Garcia Marquez Edited by Philip Swanson Index More information INDEX Note: GM = García Márquez absurd humour, 131, 139 Barcelona, 16 adolescent girls, 127 Barcha, Mercedes, 8, 13, 14 Aguilar, García, 163 Barnes, Julian, 193 Agustín (No One Writes to the Colonel), 47, Bayardo (Chronicle of a Death Foretold), 48, 49 115 Ali, Tariq, 108 Beckett, Samuel, 134 Allende, Isabel, 191 Bell, Michael, 33, 79 Almodóvar, Pedro, 171 biblical motifs, 61 Amador, Pepe (In Evil Hour), 52, 53 see also Christian themes ambiguity in GM’s fiction, 50, 75 ‘Big Mama’s Funeral’ (short story), 41, 99, América (Love in the Time of Cholera), 137–8 120–1 The Birth of Tragedy (Nietzsche) the Americas ‘Bitterness for Three Sleepwalkers’ (short anachronic techniques, 86 story), 132 anality, 89 The Blue Lobster (film), Andean Colombia, 8 Bogotá, Colombia, 9 Anderson, John Lee, 90 Bolívar, Simón, 19, 102–11 Angel, Padre (In Evil Hour), 53 book title formulas, 23 Angela (Chronicle of a Death Foretold), 113, the Boom, 114–16 Borges, Jorge Luis, 70 animal imagery, 73, 82 brothels, 114, 124 ‘Another Story’ column (El Universal), Buell, Lawrence, 64 Antigone (Sophocles), 43 Buendía, Colonel Aureliano, see Aureliano Aracataca, Colombia, 156 (One Hundred Years of Solitude) Aragonés, Patricio (The Autumn of the Buendía, José Arcadio, see José (One Patriarch), 88 Hundred Years of Solitude) archetypal narratives, 44, 48 Bulgakov, Mikhail, 186–7 Arnau, Carmen, 30 burial theme, 97–102, 111, 131 As I Lay Dying (Faulkner), 43 Asturias, Miguel Angel, 81, 100 cachacos, 9, 106 Aureliano (One Hundred Years of Solitude), capitalism, 71, 130 60, 130 Carballo, Emanuel, 26 autobiography, 154–8 Caribbean Colombia, 9, 10, 72, 74, 107 The Autumn of the Patriarch, 17, 78–91, 95, Carmichael (In Evil Hour), 53–4 100 Carpentier, Alejo, 58, 82, 183–5 Carrillo, Germán, 31 banana workers’ strike, 60, 71, 155 Cartagena, 21 201 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-68710-2 - The Cambridge Companion to Gabriel Garcia Marquez Edited by Philip Swanson Index More information Index Casanova, Pascale, 180 Cova (The Vortex), 69–70 Casares, Adolfo Bioy, 70 criollista texts, 68–70 Castro, Fidel, 90, 103 critical overview of GM’s Cayetano (Of Love and Other Demons), fiction, 25–36 121–4 Cruz Konfly, Fernando, 104 Carlos (‘Tuesday Siesta’), 43 Cuba, 13, 21, 135 Cepeda Samudio, Alvaro, 71 current affairs, 51 Cervantes, Miguel de, 185 César (In Evil Hour), 52 Dangerous Loves (films),19, 171–4 Chaparro Valderrama, Hugo, 174 Darío, Rubén, 78, 89–90 characters, naming of, 156 Dawn Poison (film), 175 Chávarri, Jaime, 172 de Bernières, Louis, 191 Chile, 149 de Sica, Vittorio, 181 ‘The Chocó Ignored by Colombia’ (El death theme, 95, 97–102, 111, 131, 138 Espectador), decolonisation, 51 cholera, 117 Defoe, Daniel, 168 Christian themes, 30–1, 48, 49, 50 Delgadina (Memories of My Melancholy see also biblical motifs Whores), 125–6 Chronicle of a Death Foretold, 18, 96, 100 dialogue, 129, 131, 132, 133, 139 film, 170–1 ‘Dialogue with the Mirror’ (short love theme, 113–16 story), 132 the Church, intolerance of, A Diatribe of Love against a Seated Man cinema, 160–76 (play), 176 adaptations of GM’s works, 165–75 dictatorship theme, 78–91, 100 GM’s criticism, 160–2 dictionaries, 157 script-writing, 13, 19, 162–3 Difficult Loves (films), 171–4 writing style influence, 163–5 Dominican Republic, 85 circus motifs, 49, 60 double narration, 149–51 Clandestine in Chile: the Adventures of dreams, 51 Miguel Littín, 149–51, 161 drug trafficking, 20, 153 classical myths, 43–4 Duque, Lisando, 173 climate, 64 Clinton, Bill, 18 Eagleton, Terry, 186 cock-fighting motif, 48, 69, 167, 170 early fiction of GM, 41–55 Coetzee, J. M., 191 eco-criticism, One Hundred Years of Collazos, Oscar, 28 Solitude, 64–75 Colombia, 96 Ecuador, 107 civil conflict, 10 Efraín (María), 67–8 geography, 8–9 Eliécer Gaitán, Jorge, 10, 106 history, 105–11 Eligio García, Gabriel, 7–8 kidnapping, 20, 151–4 enchantment, 193 nature writings, 66–7 endings in GM’s fiction, 97–102 newspapers, 145 environmentalism, 66 colonialism, 60, 61, 73, 138 Eréndira (film), 169–70 Columbus, Christopher, 82–3, 90 ‘Eréndira’ (short story), 16, 139–41 Communist Party, Colombia, 135 Escobar, Pablo, 21 Conde, Susan, 172 Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión, consciousness, 131 21, 162 Correa, Julián David, 166 El Espectador, 10, 11, 144, 145–9 Cortázar, Julio, 71 Estrada Cabrera, Manuel, 85 cosmopolitanism, 180 European travels, 12, 16 Cosmos (Humboldt), 67 ‘Eva Is Inside Her Cat’ (short costeños (coastal-dwellers), 9, 106 story), 10, 131 202 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-68710-2 - The Cambridge Companion to Gabriel Garcia Marquez Edited by Philip Swanson Index More information index ‘Evaluation and Reconstruction of the Gómez, Juan Vicente, 85 Catastrophe in Antioquia’ Grass, Günter, 190 (El Espectador), Greene, Graham, 103 Everett, Rupert, 171 Guerra, Ruy, 169, 172, 175 exceptionalism, 191 Gullón, Ricardo, 27 excrement motif, 79, 89, 99 Gutiérrez Alea, Tomás, 172 exile, 151 exorcism, 124 hallucinations, 51 expletives, 50 Hamlet (Shakespeare), 189 ‘Eyes of a Blue Dog’ (short story), 11, 132 Happy Sunday (film), 173 Harss, Luis, 25–6 Fable of the Beautiful Pigeon Fancier (film), Heidegger, Martin, 194 172 Hemingway, Ernest, 41 the family, El Heraldo, 11, 145 Faulkner, William, 11, 41, 43, 181 Hermosillo, Jaime Humberto, 168 female objectification, 121, 123, 125, 127 historical novels, 82, 108 Fermina (Love in the Time of Cholera), 116, history 117–20 The Autumn of the Patriarch, 84–6 film, 160–76 The General in the Labyrinth, 102–11 adaptations of GM’s works, 165–75 One Hundred Years of Solitude, 155 GM’s criticism, 160–2 Hitchcock, Alfred, 163 script-writing, 13, 19, 162–3 hoax message, 22 Flaubert’s Parrot (Barnes), 193 Hopscotch (Cortázar), 71 Florentino (Love in the Time of Cholera), The House, 11 116–21, 124 How to Tell a Story: Gabriel García flowers motif, 138 Márquez’s Scriptwriting follow-up stories, 144, 146–58 Workshop, 163 foreign historian device, 180, 188–9 Humboldt, Alexander von, 66–7 Franco, Francisco, 85 humour, 131, 139 Fuentes, Carlos, 26, 29, 84, 90, 166 I the Supreme (Roa Bastos), 82 García Márquez, Gabriel (Gabo) I’m the One You’re Looking For biography, 7–23 (film), 171 character in One Hundred Years of illness of GM, 22 Solitude, imperialism, 82, 86 cinema, 160–76 In Evil Hour, 13, 41, 51–5 critical overview incest theme, 61–2 early fiction, 10, 11, 35, 41–55 ‘The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent early years, 7–9 Eréndira and Her Heartless illness, 22 Grandmother’ (short story), 16 influences, 41, 43, 52, 97, 181 India, 190 journalism, 12, 17, 20, 21, 144–54 Indians, 69, 83, 90 law studies, 9 internet hoax message, 22 Nobel Prize, 18 intertextuality, 82 parents, 7–8 Into the Mainstream (Harss), 25–6 politics, 17 investigative journalism, 146–54 wife, 8, 13, 14 The Invisible Children (film), 175 The General in his Labyrinth, 94, 102–11, Isaac, Alberto, 167 190 Isaacs, Jorge, 67–8, 71 ghosts, 134 Isabel (Leaf Storm), 45 ‘The Giraffe’ column (El Heraldo), 145 Glissant, Edouard, 192 José Aracadio (One Hundred Years of The Golden Cockerel (film), 166 Solitude), 73 203 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-68710-2 - The Cambridge Companion to Gabriel Garcia Marquez Edited by Philip Swanson Index More information Index journalism, 12, 17, 20, 21, 144–54 Martínez, Tomás Eloy, 26 justice themes, 43, 48 martyrdom, 48, 49 Juvenal (Love in the Time of Cholera), the marvellous, 182, 183, 185, 192, 193 118–19 Marxist criticism, 29 Mary My Dearest (film), 168 Kafka, Franz, 131, 181 masculinity, 67, 170 kidnapping, 21, 151–4 massacre of strikers, 60, 71, 155 The Kingdom of This World (Carpentier), The Master and Margarita (Bulgakov), 183 186–7 Kline, Carmenza, 32 Maturo, Graciela, 30 mayor (In Evil Hour), 52, 54 La casa grande (Cepeda Samudio), 71 McMurray, George, 33, 64 Labanyi, Jo, 80 melodrama, 101, 167 Latin America Melquíades (One Hundred Years of colonialism, 138 Solitude), 188 history, 105–11 memoirs, 22, 154–8 nature writings, 66–7 Memories of My Melancholy Whores, 22, novelists, 14 97, 99, 124–7 Leaf Storm, 11, 41, 42–6, 98 memory, 156, 188 Letters from the Park (film), 172 Mena, Lucila, 31 letter-writing motif, 117 Méndez, José Luis, 32 Liberal Party, Colombia, 10, 105 Menton, Seymour, 82 literalism, 186 metafiction, 72 Littín, Miguel, 149–51, 161, 168 Mexico, 13, 15, 17, 162, 174 Living to Tell the Tale, 22, 154–8 Mexico City, 13, 17 Love in the Time of Cholera, 18, 96, 101–2 Midnight’s Children (Rushdie), 190 film, 175 Minta, Stephen, 130, 135 love theme, 116–21 Miracle in Rome (film), 173–4 love themes, 18, 20, 22, 36, 96, 113–27 modernism, 193 Chronicle of a Death Foretold, 113–16 modernistas, 68 Love in the Time of Cholera, 116–21 modernisation, 71 Memories of My Melancholy Whores, Momento (magazine), 12 124–7 ‘Monologue of Isabel Watching it Rain in Of Love and Other Demons, 121–4 Macondo’ (short story), 41 Loveluck, Juan, 25 monologues, 19 Ludmer, Josefina, 32 Montaner, Maria E., 32 Lukács, Georg, 108 Montero, César (In Evil Hour), 52 Montiel’s Widow (film), 168 machismo, 170 Morales, Donald M., 172 Macondo, 26, 156 morality themes, 43, 54, 55 in Leaf Storm, 98 movies see cinema in One Hundred Years of Solitude, 188 Munday, Jeremy, 33 magical realism, 15–16, 23,