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Title: Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 100 Years of Solitude: A Casebook (Casebooks in Criticism) by Gene H. Bell-Villada ISBN: 0195144554 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: January, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5
Rating: 4
Summary: Helpful, but like so many anthologies, uneven
Comment: This book cannot fail to be of use to anyone trying to gain a fuller understanding of García Márquez's ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE. Although not useless to advanced readers, the collection is explicitly targeted at readers approaching the text for the first time. I imagine they had this in mind as a college text to accompany the novel.
Anthologies are almost always uneven, with some essays justifying the cost of the book, and others that seem to either muddy the water or just waste one's time. This collection is no exception. Several of the essays are superb. In general, as the editor acknowledges in the Introduction, the clearest, most helpful essays are those by scholars working in Great Britain. The least helpful are those scholars--either American or Latin American--in the grips of literary theory. One of the essays is so densely written that nearly the entire piece consists of buzz words from cultural studies and comparative literature. I can't imagine many college level readers having the background to penetrate such an essay, while many advanced scholars will recognize that such an essay covers up lack of content by an excess of lingo.
Nonetheless, by picking and choosing, one will gain a great deal of help in reading García Márquez's great novel. There is a good deal of helpful biographical and historical information, as well as a number of excellent critical pieces analyzing various aspects of the book. I found the essays in the first two thirds of the book to be more helpful than those in the last third, with some exceptions in each section.
And yes, the font is small, but I didn't have the trouble reading the book that the first reviewer had.
Rating: 3
Summary: Excellent material
Comment: Excellent material but the print is too small to read without strain even with glasses.
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Title: Approaches to Teaching Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude by Maria Elena de Valdes, Mario J. Valdes ISBN: 0873525361 Publisher: Modern Language Association of America Pub. Date: November, 1990 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez ISBN: 0060929790 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: November, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: One Hundred Years of Solitude [Cliffs Notes Study] ISBN: 0822009641 Publisher: Cliffs Notes Pub. Date: July, 1997 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Modern Critical Views) by Harold Bloom ISBN: 1555462979 Publisher: Chelsea House Pub (Library) Pub. Date: February, 1992 List Price(USD): $37.95 |
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Title: One Hundred Years of Solitude: Modes of Reading (Twayne's Masterworks Studies, No. 70) by Regina Janes ISBN: 0805779892 Publisher: Twayne Pub Pub. Date: May, 1991 List Price(USD): $31.00 |
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