Chronicle of a Death Foretold | Social Concerns/Themes
Based in part on historical fact, Chronicle of a Death Foretold has been accurately described as a modern fable as well as a metaphysical murder mystery. Accentuating Garcia Marquez's journalistic instinct for recognizing a "good" story, the novel (or novella) virtually reconstructs the events associated with the death of its central character, Santiago Nasar. The actual incident which generated its fictional counterpart occurred on January 22, 1951 in the Colombian town of Sucre where a man was brutally murdered supposedly in revenge for a woman's loss of honor. Apparently...
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