In the article, Knowledge and Time in Garcia Marquez’s Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Jacqueline Weaver, she explains how Santiago’s death functions and the connection between the object of historical study and the nature of the method used to examine a moment in time. She expounds on the narrator’s linear experience in the novel and his present state and shifting of his memory while time and truth operate on their own definitive yet changeable way. Weaver claims that the narrator is searching for facts that are futile in the murder of Nasar. She says that reflecting backward into the mind through time is not certain than the forward movement of clock and calendar towards the foretold death. Santigao Nasar’s death could have been prevented
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She says history reveals itself to be more structurally than the memories it attempts to chronicle. Weaver states that despite the limitation and biases the historical methods impose on the event the narrator would be unable to organize or recollect factual information surrounding the murder without a disciplinary structure. She further states that historical pursuit in the murder raises questions to the nature of time. Weaver claims that Marquez uses the form of chronicle to form attempts to segment time in order to study the murder from a linear approach. Weaver suggests that the use of chronicle reconnects the idea of time as surrounding and imposing upon the present. Weaver further states that Santiago and the towns’ people are subject to a linear experience of time, the omens in his dreams go unnoticed until it is too late for the interpretation to change the course of event. Additionally, Weaver suggests that the haunting memories of the townspeople revealed a burden of the past into the present claiming that time transcends the constraints created by linear consciousness. The nature and function of time emerge as something that defies both the linear consciousness of the human individuals and the factual expectations of the historical discipline which they have
She says history reveals itself to be more structurally than the memories it attempts to chronicle. Weaver states that despite the limitation and biases the historical methods impose on the event the narrator would be unable to organize or recollect factual information surrounding the murder without a disciplinary structure. She further states that historical pursuit in the murder raises questions to the nature of time. Weaver claims that Marquez uses the form of chronicle to form attempts to segment time in order to study the murder from a linear approach. Weaver suggests that the use of chronicle reconnects the idea of time as surrounding and imposing upon the present. Weaver further states that Santiago and the towns’ people are subject to a linear experience of time, the omens in his dreams go unnoticed until it is too late for the interpretation to change the course of event. Additionally, Weaver suggests that the haunting memories of the townspeople revealed a burden of the past into the present claiming that time transcends the constraints created by linear consciousness. The nature and function of time emerge as something that defies both the linear consciousness of the human individuals and the factual expectations of the historical discipline which they have