La hojarasca

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La hojarasca is a novella by Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez that introduces the fictional town of Macondo and explores themes of death, memory, and social hypocrisy.

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instanceOf literary work
novella
author Gabriel García Márquez
centralEvent suicide of the doctor
chronologyInAuthorOeuvre one of García Márquez’s earliest published works
containsCharacter Isabel
the Colonel
the child narrator
countryOfOrigin Colombia
explores collective memory
corruption of institutions
moral ambiguity
tension between individual and community
fictionalTownIntroduced Macondo
firstPublishedIn Bogotá
genre Latin American literature
modernist fiction
hasAdaptation stage adaptations
hasForm short novel
hasReception considered an important early work of García Márquez
hasSymbol Leaf Storm
surface form: leaf storm
influencedBy William Faulkner
modernist narrative techniques
literaryMovement Latin American Boom precursor
narrativePerspective first-person narration
narrativeTechnique multiple narrators
originalLanguage Spanish
pageCountApproximate 120
partOf Macondo cycle of stories
surface form: Macondo cycle
plotFocus funeral of the doctor
precedesInMacondoCycle One Hundred Years of Solitude
publicationYear 1955
publisher Editorial S.L.E.S.A.
setting Macondo
structure interior monologue
stream of consciousness
symbolizes invasion of outsiders into Macondo
moral and social decay
theme death
family relationships
memory
social hypocrisy
solitude
violence
timeSpanOfAction approximately half an hour during the wake
title La hojarasca self-link
usesDevice nonlinear narrative
shifting viewpoints

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Leaf Storm originalTitle La hojarasca
La hojarasca title La hojarasca self-link