%0 Journal Article
%T From "La hojarasca" to "Cien a os de soledad": Gabriel Garc¨ªa M¨¢rquez¡¯s Labyrinth of Nostalgia
%A Browitt
%A Jeff
%J FULGOR : Flinders University Languages Group Online Review
%D 2005
%I 
%X It is now a commonplace of Latin American literary criticism that Gabriel Garc¨ªa M¨¢rquez¡¯s "La hojarasca" (1955) ("Leafstorm") is the key intertext and the precursor for the Colombian writer¡¯s magnum opus, "Cien a os de soledad" (1967) ("One Hundred Years of Solitude"). But exactly how "La hojarasca" was remodelled for "Cien a os de soledad", especially in terms of structure and theme, has received insufficient attention. This essay posits the consciousness raising under the impact of the Cuban Revolution as the central factor in Garc¨ªa M¨¢rquez¡¯s decision to re-fashion a tale of individual tragedy into a collective one. In spite of this renovation, however, and in counterpoint to the optimism of the Cuban Revolution, "Cien a os" remains deeply imbued with an overwhelming sense of nostalgia and personal loss, which is then projected as both pessimistic national history and transcendental category.
%K Language and Culture
%K Spanish
%K Colombia
%K civil war
%K solitude
%K modernisation
%K Macondo
%K Buend¨ªa
%K Aureliano
%K Halper¨ªn Donghi
%K Raymond Williams
%K Melqu¨ªades
%K Vargas Llosa
%K realism
%U http://ehlt.flinders.edu.au/deptlang/fulgor/volume2i2/papers/fulgor_v2i2_browitt.pdf