Federico García Lorca

La Patrona is a Spanish-Language telenovela produced by Telemundo, and is a remake of the 1984 Venezuelan telenovela La duena, which was inspired by the novel The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas. It was created by Valentina Parraga, written by Eduardo Macias, and directed by Víctor Herrera McNaught. From January 8, 2013 to July 9, 2013, Telemundo aired La Patrona weeknights at 9pm/8c for a total of 127 episodes, replacing Corazón Valiente. It was nominated for and won many awards during…

Antonio Machado‘s poem A un olmoseco’ from his book, Campos de Castilla was written in Soria in 1912 .The poem, like others in Campos de Castilla, is a piece of landscape literature contributing to the work of Spain’s Generacion del 98 (Generation of 98). The poem, set in the Sorian landscape, tells of an old elm tree, which although rotting and dying has a few new leaves sprouting from it. Throughout the poem, Machado expresses his intimate feelings, both with regards to his personal…

The main character of the novel Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Santiago Nasar may seem like a victim when he is murdered but in actuality Santiago is a multi layered character with a varied past that includes allegedly attempting to commit rape and treating women like objects. The question is not about the murder itself, but if a character as varied as Santiago is not the innocent victim some think he is. Santiago Nasar is introduced as the victim of a murder in the first line of Chronicle of a…

etc. two of such fields which have been greatly influenced by these philosophical and humanistic notions is literary criticism and literary production. This article examines these notions in the novel ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’ by Gabriel Garcia Marquez with regard to their treatment in the book ‘Being and Time’ by Martin Heidegger one of the greatest philosophers of twentieth century. In the article the writer tries to explain the notion of existence with regard to three parts…

The short story “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings”, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez is subtitled ‘A Tale for Children’, however; the complicated story line may not likely be understood by a child (319). The story’s theme of magic realism coincides with the lesson the author tries to teach on exploitation. Although it is not clearly portrayed one could assume, due to the author’s history, that the story takes place in rural Columbia. The small village, close to the sea, had experienced rain for…

Abstract: Magic realism acts as resistance against Western hegemony . In One Hundred years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez rediscovers the history of Latin America in an allegorical way. Magic realism is a narrative technique which acts as an identity of Latin America and on the other hand its hybrid characteristic is a protest against the conventional Western norm. Magical realism, unlike the fantastic or the surreal, presumes that the individual requires a bond with the traditions and…

The Golden Rule “Treat others the way you would like to be treated”, its the golden rule. Unfortuantly thats the opposite of what's going on in Gabriel Marquez’s short story,“A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings”. Despite the possibility that the old man with enormous wings may be an angel he is treated as a circus animal. He is mentally and physical abused throughout the short story not only by the family, he is living with, but also the village and most surprisingly the church. Pelayo and…

Collected Stories is written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, who is journalist and born in Aracataca, Colombia. In the book, he uses the magic realism , which expresses a primarily realistic view of real world while encompassing a range of subtly different concepts, to emphasize his usual theme, such as irony, social class, etc. Among his theme, Marquez explores human corruption and the abuse of power by using theme of social class, religion, and politics. Marquez uses social class to emphasize the…

characteristics can be found in the following stories. Magical realism is the blend between reality and the extraordinary. Both texts, “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings: A Tale for Children,” and “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World,” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, include magical realism. They are both set in an ordinary world with familiar historical or cultural realities. Certain things in the story cannot always be explained by universal laws or familiar logic. For example, “A Very Old…

In the novel, Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, he enforces the theme of gender roles throughout the entire novel. Men and women were placed in different social roles and were expected to accomplish and do certain tasks. Men were culturally defined to be masculine and to be the “man” of the house. This meant that females were expected to fulfil their desires. This is shown when Dina Flor was introduced to the story, “Divina Flor [...] knew that she was destined for…