Chronicle of a Death Foretold | Techniques/Literary Precedents
Similar in context to the stylistic prose associated with such writers as John Dos Passos and Ernest Hemingway, Garcia Marquez attempts in Chronicle of a Death Foretold to merge journalism and fiction. Consisting of five chapters, the novel compacts into a limited time span the graphic reenactment and ensuing repercussions of Santiago Nasar's ritualistic death. On the morning of his murder, Santiago rises to drink a sacrificial cup of coffee, adorns himself in a white linen suit, and then ceremoniously walks the streets of the town before his fated meeting with the Vicario...
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