The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World | Literary Precedents
One of the most important influences on Garcia Marquez, The Kingdom of the World (1949), by Alejo Carpentier, is a magic realist look at Haiti's troubled history through the eyes of a slave. The influence of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726) can be seen in Esteban's arrival on the beach and his great stature. Garcia Marquez was also influenced by the work of Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, most notably the experimental collections of short stories A Universal History of Infamy and Ficciones, in which Borges abandoned a traditional realist approach to...
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