Collected Stories

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Author), Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Author), G. Rabassa (Translator), J.S. Bernstein (Translator)

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  Hardcover
  1991

  $3.40

  Published together in one volume for the first time, this book contains all the short stories of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Opening with 'The Third Resignation', a strange and haunting tale of a man living his own death, and concluding with the story of Innocent Erendira, the young girl who accidentally burns down the house of her grandmother and is forced into a life of prostitution and slavery to repay her debt, in between come a further twenty-four stories all teeming with invention, fluctuation between despair and optimism. In one a dying senator fins the woman of his life, another a bedraggled angel crash-lands in a village; and 'for all the world's unbelievers', her is the 'true account of Big Mama, absolute sovereign of the Kingdom of Macondo, who lived for ninety-two years, and died in the odour of sanctity last one Tuesday last September, and whose funeral was attended by the Pope'. Marquez's stories, we know, are dazzling; but to read them in this collection is to embark upon a journey deep into the inseparable worlds of reality and illusion which are the hallmark of his fiction, a journey to the heart of consciousness itself. The Collected Stories not only displays the range of his unique talent, it demonstrates a complete vision and is further testimony to the genius of a brilliant myth-maker and master fabulist.