Abstract
Abstract This chapter is a profile of Gabriel García Márquez's life and oeuvre. It focuses primarily on his masterpiece, One Hundred Years of Solitude (1970), looking at its style, structure, cast of characters, and content from the historical, political, and aesthetic perspectives. The chapter also considers his other work, including his stories, reportage on Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship in Chile and the drug war in Colombia, his autobiography Living to Tell the Tale (2003), as well as his other novels, including Love in the Time of Cholera (1988). All this helps us to ponder García Márquez's place in the international literary canon, his leadership of magical realism, his lasting influence on authors like Toni Morrison and Salman Rushdie, and the backlash his oeuvre has been the target of by subsequent generations of Latin American authors.
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