Includes bibliographical references and index.

On Gabriel García Márquez / Ilan Stavans -- Biography of GabrielGarcía Márquez / Roy Arthur Swanson -- The Paris review perspective / Caitlin Roper -- Gabriel García Márquez: cultural and historical contexts / Amy Sickels -- The master of Aracataca / Ilan Stavans -- Remedios the child bride: the forgotten buendía / Amy M. Green -- García a Márquez's investigation of Cold War Soviet Europe: its Cervantine invocation / John Cussen -- The master of short forms / Gene H. Bell-Villada -- Magic realism and García Márquez's Eréndira / Moylan C. Mills and Enrique Grönlund -- "The paralysis of the instant": the stagnation of history and the stylistic suspension of time in Gabriel García Márquez's La hojarasca / Deborah Cohn -- A "gyrating wheel" / Rosa Simas -- The dark side of magical realism: science, oppression, and apocalypse in One hundred years of solitude / Brian Conniff -- Superstition, irony, themes / Stephen M. Hart -- Intertextualities: three metamorphoses of myth in The autumn of the Patriarch / Michael Palencia-Roth -- Biblical justice and the military hero in two novels of Gabriel García Márquez / Lourdes Elena Morales-Gudmundsson -- The dangers of gullible reading: narrative as seduction in García Márquez Love in the time of cholera / M. Keith Booker -- Lessons from the golden age in Gabriel García Márquez Living to tell the tale / Efraín Kristal.