Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Julio Ortega. Exchange System in One Hundred Years of Solitude Ricardo Gutierrez Mouat. The Economy of the Narrative Sign in No One Writes to the Colonel and In Evil Hour Michael Palencia-Roth. Intertextualities: Three Metamorphoses of Myth in The Autumn of the Patriarch Anibal Gonzalez. The Ends of the Text: Journalism in the Fiction of Gabriel Garcia Marquez Gonzalo Diaz-Migoyo. Truth Disguised: Chronicle of a Death (Ambiguously) Foretold Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The Solitude of Latin America (Nobel Lecture, 1982) Contributors Index

About the Author

Julio Ortega has been called "Peru's leading literary intellectual" (American Book Review). He is Professor of Hispanic Studies at Brown University and has published many works of his own fiction, drama, and poetry, as well as numerous critical editions and works of literary criticism.

Reviews

Gabriel Garcia Marquez and the Powers of Fiction signifies a veritable tour de force on the part of the editor, his collaborators, and translator ... In the final analysis, these exemplary essays open the door to new vistas in contemporary research and scholarship in Spanish America.