1. Gabriel García Márquez
By Amogh Sharma

2. Biography Born in Aracataca,, Colombia in 1927
Lived eight years in this small provincial town with his parents and grandparents
Grandfather Nicolás Marquez was huge influence
Town of Aracataca also a big influence in his work
Magical Realism
Nobel Prize in 1982
Works include:
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Love in the Time of Cholera
Innocent Eréndira and other Stories

3. The sea of lost time Told in the third person
Set in a seashore village
Tells the story of the upturn in fortune of a village due to the smell of roses
Magical realism
“There’s a village at the bottom of the sea … with little white houses.”
“They’re alive … but they’ve been asleep for millions of years.”

4. Death constant beyond love
Told in third person
Set in a desolate dry village Rosal del Virrey
Senator Sánchez finds the “woman of his life” here with only seven months to live
“Senator Onésimo Sánchez had six months and eleven days to go before his death when he found the woman of his life”
“His aides threw clusters of paper birds into the air and the artificial creatures took on life, flew about the platform of planks, and went out to sea.”

5. Someone has been disarranging these roses
Told in first person from the view of a dead child
Ghost tries to rearrange the roses of a lady who has moved into the home
Lady is same girl who used to live in the home as a kid
Nostalgic, magical realism, playful
“I think I’ll take a bouquet of roses to my grave.”
“She had taken away only the smells of the room, and twenty years later she brought them back again … her presence alone was enough to restore what the implacable industry of time had destroyed.”

6. Sources
Márquez Gabriel García. Innocent Eréndira, and Other Stories. 1st ed., New York, Harper and Row, 1978.