Origins of Social Pessimism in García Márquez: "The Night of the Curlews"

Origins of Social Pessimism in García Márquez: "The Night of the Curlews"

Writer Garcia Marquez, in "The Night of the Curlews," exhibits a shift from existential to social pessimism, which gives rise to his more realistic fiction of the early 1960s. The story's protagonists are trapped in a very real Colombian society and face aloneness within the human con...

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Veröffentlicht in:Studies in short fiction 1991-07, Vol.28 (3), p.331
1. Verfasser: Carvalho, Susan de
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
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Colombian literature
Fiction
Garcia Marquez, Gabriel (1927-2014)
Literary criticism
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Zusammenfassung:Writer Garcia Marquez, in "The Night of the Curlews," exhibits a shift from existential to social pessimism, which gives rise to his more realistic fiction of the early 1960s. The story's protagonists are trapped in a very real Colombian society and face aloneness within the human context.
ISSN:0039-3789
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