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A Cataclysm in Repose Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings"
Title: A Cataclysm in Repose Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings"
Category: Literature / European Literature
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A Cataclysm in Repose Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings"
A Cataclysm in Repose
Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" is a short story that fuses together magical and realistic elements. In an interview, Marquez explains the influences and origins of this unique style of writing. The story (not surprisingly) is about an old man with enormous wings who somehow ends up in a small Caribbean or Central American town and the events that surround this occurrence. The story is written …showed first 75 words of 981 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 981 total…the influence of politics in his writing. Being a Marxist, how did this affect the non-traditional representation of the angel? I found that, in general, the interview provided helpful insight on what makes Marquez's magical-realistic writing so vivid and believable.
Work Cited
Stone, Peter H. An interview with Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Unknown date and publisher.
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia. "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings." The Story and it's Writer. Boston, MA: Bedford/St. Martin's ., 2003.
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