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This book offers discussion and analysis of the subtle writing of Nobel Laureate Gabriel García Márquez - a traditionalist who draws from classic Western texts, a Modernist committed to modernizing the conservative literary tradition in Colombia and Latin America, an internationally recognized major writer of the 1960s Boom, the key figure in popularizing what has been called "magic realism" and, finally, a Modernist who has occasionally engaged in some of the strategies of the postmodern. The author demonstrates that García Márquez is above all a committed and highly accomplished Modernist fiction writer who has successfully synthesized his political vision in his writing and absorbed a vast array of cultural and literary traditions. Drawing on García Márquez's interviews with Williams and others over the years, the book also explores the importance of the non-literary, the presence of oral tradition and the visual arts, thus providing a more complete insight into García Márquez's strategies as a Modernist with heterogeneous aesthetic interests, as well as an understanding of his social and political preoccupations. RAYMOND LESLIE WILLIAMS is Professor of Latin American Literature at the University of California, Riverside.

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Although the "companion" designation of this study is puzzling, since it offers much more than a basic look at a well-scrutinized and often discussed author, the book has something for everyone. Experts and novices alike can benefit from Williams's expertise and familiarity with someone he has "read and written about ... for over three decades." What Williams (Univ. of California, Riverside) adds to a canon to which he has so heavily contributed is, on one hand, a bird's-eye view that shows Garcia Marquez to be a "committed and highly accomplished Modernist fiction writer who has successfully synthesized his political vision in his writing and drawn upon a vast array of cultural and literary traditions." On the other, Williams provides insights into all the major works in the context of the author's literary trajectory and 20th-century Colombian, Latin American, and world literature. In short, the experienced scholar will learn from the focus on Garcia Marquez's place in the modernist tradition. The book's only omission: clarification of the use of "modernism" as opposed to the 19th-century Latin American literary and artistic movement. That aside, this study provides an invaluable understanding of a unique writer who has become a classic in his region and the world. Summing Up: Essential. All readers. S. T. Clark emerita, California State University, San Marcos