The First García Márquez: A Study Of His Journalistic Writing From 1948 To 1955

This book studies in five chapters the continuous interaction of Garc_a M_rquez’s journalism and fiction since the inception of his writing career. The author brings fresh insights to the literature and M_rquez by concentrating on two critical methods: textual, following the ideas of Gerard Genette, and transtextual, following the ideas of Mikhail Bakhtin of translinguistics. Contents: Garc_a M_rquez and Bigeneric Writing; Journalistic Peregrinations I; Journalistic Peregrinations II; Journalistic Peregrinations III; Garc_a M_rquez’s The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor; Garc_a M_rquez’s Series on La Sierpe.