This volume of essays constitutes a critical reappraisal of a front-rank world author, Gabriel Garc�簫a M�癒rquez, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1983. Apart from extending
critical appreciation of his work to an English-reading public, its principal objective is to reflect the breadth and variety of critical approaches to literature applied to a single corpus of
writing; here, the major novels (including Love in the Times of Cholera, 1986) and a selection of his short fiction are considered. The aim of this collection, given these dual objectives, is
to extend knowledge of the work of Garc�簫a M�癒rquez and introduce to both the general reader and to students of literature a plurality of current critical approaches to his rich variety of
fictional techniques. The volume also includes a bibliography of criticism available in English and an English translation of the author's Stockholm Nobel acceptance address.
