The First Garcia M-rquez

This book studies in five chapters the continuous interaction of Garca Mrquez's journalism and fiction since the inception of his writing career. The author brings fresh insights to the literature and Mrquez by concentrating on two critical methods: textual, following the ideas of Gerard Genette, and transtextual, following the ideas of Mikhail Bakhtin of translinguistics. Contents: Garca Mrquez and Bigeneric Writing; Journalistic Peregrinations I; Journalistic Peregrinations II; Journalistic Peregrinations III; Garca Mrquez's The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor; Garca Mrquez's Series on La Sierpe.