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- Title
`The Paralysis of the Instant': The Stagnation of History and the Stylistic Suspension of Time in Gabriel Garcia Marquez's La hojarasca.
- Authors
Cohn, Deborah
- Abstract
Explores how in his first novel Gabriel Garcia Marquez undertook the task of steering the Colombian novel in a new direction through his experimentation with one of the fundamental underpinnings of the realist novel, linear time. Description on how he suspends the forward movement of time in `La hojarasca', or 'Leaf Storm,' as it is know in English; Brief overview of Garcia Marquez's relationship to the Euro-American modernists; Argument on the technical innovations of literary modernism.
- Subjects
LEAF Storm &; Other Stories (Book); GARCIA Marquez, Gabriel, 1927-2014; LA Hojarasca (Book); LATIN American fiction; MAGIC realism (Literature); COLOMBIAN fiction; TWENTIETH century
- Publication
College Literature, 1999, Vol 26, Issue 2, p59
- ISSN
0093-3139
- Publication type
Literary Criticism