Abstract
In Mario Vargas Llosa’s opinion, two of the most lasting obsessions of Garcia Marquez’s literary world, were the theme of plague, and the one of violence, that together form a sort of “cataclysmic vision” of history, whose literary sources were Daniel Defoe’s, A journal of the plague year , and Sophocles’, Oedipus Rex . We mention in this article the presence of those themes in Garcia Marquez’s filmic work, beginning with the screenplays of two films: El ano de la peste and Edipo Alcalde , adaptations of the cited works of Defoe and Sophocles. Afterwards we present two unpublished film treatments, Para Elisa and Dios y yo . The first is about war in Colombia, and presents an explicit reference to the “ Bogotazo ” (9 th of April of 1948), while the second presents the theme of Latin American dictator, that Garcia Marquez later focused in his novel El otono del patriarca .
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