Approaches to Gabriel García Márquez: an introduction

Abstract

Gabriel García Márquez is one of the most influential authors of America and his work has been a fundamental piece in the conception of the term «latinoamericanidad» (being Latin American). Along with Borges and Carrasquilla, among others, he has flashed the light not only to define this movement, but to characterize and structure it. García Márquez joined writing purposes that Western culture did not expect to find in the literature of the new continent: innovative narrative structures, consideration of writing as an act of constant reflection and abandonment of stilted rhetorical; facts that granted freedom and power to the descriptive spirit of the Latin American writer to nurture a literary point of view facing society and the world around him.