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...closely to mirror reality in his fiction. Some writers change only the names of their characters leaving imaginative artifices out of their works. Others place their stories so far from the realm of common experience that only the most determined can find any relation to reality. Gabriel Garcia Marquez has found a comfortable, even delightful balance between the two extremes. "Reality is not restricted to the price of tomatoes," he says in a recent issue of the New Republic. "Life is filled with the miraculous lying dormant in the heart of the quotidian...
...miraculous is what the reader remembers from the title story in Garcia Marquez's new short story collection, "Innocent Erendira and Other Stories. With the simplicity and innocence of a fairy tale, Garcia Marquez weaves dreams, superstitions and magic into a serious and disturbing story of a cruel matriarch's domination over her lovely and obedient granddaughter. Garcia Marquez's imagination gives the story charm and life which enhances its relevance and meaning...
There is a prince charming of sorts whose actions free the girl, but there is no conventional happy ending. Erendira and her supporting cast belong to the world of legend that Garcia Marquez Yoknapatawphaized out of the Colombian landscape in his lengthy masterpiece One Hundred Years of Solitude (1970). But the short story is not a form that can adequately contain his distinctive magic which requires proliferations of exotic plots, flowering images and familia' tangles...
...were written during the late '40s and early '50s, when the author, now 50, seems to have been under the influence of Joyce and Kafka. Exhaustion, apathy, despair and death are the principal themes. It would have been difficult to predict from these early efforts the Garcia Marquez who is one of Latin America's leading novelists...
...eyes of his admirers, Rafael Ferrer's art has come to represent Puerto Rico, rather as the novels of Gabriel Garcia Marquez stand for Colombia. Certainly, Ferrer-now 44, and having his latest one-man show at Manhattan's Nancy Hoffman Gallery-has not yet produced his masterpiece, his Hundred Years of Solitude. But if any Latin American artist of his generation is likely...