Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez, an established author and journalist, is a product of the Post Modern Era. This era is the immediate time after World War II which ended in 1945. His writings depict the literary characteristics of blurring of distinctions between genres, in addition to over lapping with other eras, including Colonialism and Post Colonialism. “Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.” The quote in the line above gives you an impression of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s outlook toward his literary writing and techniques. Growing up, quiet and shy, he was the oldest of 12 children, Gabriel Marquez had the reputation of being intelligent, as well as, being a great writer (Allen). These traits helped Marquez later in life to become a journalist for a newspaper in Bogota (Fulton). Many of the authors in Marquez’s era believed that there is no truth; they believe life is an illusion (McHale).
The Postmodern Era or Post War Era is said to have begun in 1940 (Wang). Postmodernism is defined by Brian McHale as, “A main international current of literature and at after the waning of modernism, both continuous and dis-continuous with modernism” (McHale). Gabriel Garcia Marquez, without any problems, exemplified the postmodern “Literature of Replenishment” (McHale). The characteristic that mainly defined the era is the lack of a good narrative (McHale). Postmodernists also believed that all religions are valid (McHale). This era was full of politics, as World War II had just concluded. Writers who experienced World War II are said to be the people who shaped this era (McHale).
The president at the beginning of the Post-modem Era was Harry S. Truman. He held...

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