Leaf Storm (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Gabriel García Márquez
- First Published: 1955
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Magical Realism
- Time of Work: The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
- Setting: Macondo, an imaginary town in Colombia
- Genres: Long fiction, Magical Realism
- Subjects: Suicide, Twentieth century, Nineteenth century, Doctors, Small-town life, Funeral rites or ceremonies, South America or South Americans, Latin America or Latin Americans
- Locales: Colombia, Macondo, Colombia
Characters Discussed
The Doctor, a resident of Macondo for a quarter century, a grass eater, an insomniac, and a suicide by hanging. The Doctor is variously perceived as lustful and vulgar, without pity, hardened, animal-like, and already dead before death. He is the focus of interior monologues emanating from the Colonel, Isabel, and the Child. He is possibly French, and his name is never known, although he lives as a guest in the Colonel’s home for eight years. He practices medicine in Macondo until the banana company arrives and his patients drift away. When the company...
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