Chronicle of a Death Foretold (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Gabriel García Márquez
- First Published: 1981
- Type of Plot: Mystery
- Time of Work: Early twentieth century
- Setting: An unnamed Colombian village on the coast of Caribbean
- Principal Characters: The narrator, Santiago Nasar, Cristo Bedoya, Angela Vicario, Pedro, Pablo Vicario, Bayardo San Román
- Genres: Long fiction, Mystery and detective literature
- Subjects: Sex or sexuality, Murder or homicide, Twentieth century, Villages, Revenge, Small-town life, Truthfulness and falsehood, South America or South Americans
- Locales: Caribbean, Colombia
The Novel
The “chronicle” of the title is the attempt by the narrator to piece together events leading up to the murder of Santiago Nasar by Pedro and Pablo Vicario. He does so by drawing on his own memories as well as on the accounts of those who witnessed the murder and whom he sought out twenty-seven years after the event. Thus, the novel bears many of the trappings of a murder mystery, but it is hardly a conventional representative of that genre: The murderers had announced their intentions to everyone they met for hours before the event. What the narrator, and indeed...
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