Leaf Storm

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literary work novella

Leaf Storm is a novella by Gabriel García Márquez that introduces the fictional town of Macondo and explores themes of solitude, memory, and moral conflict.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	literary work → novella →
author	Gabriel García Márquez →
centralEvent	funeral of a despised doctor →
countryOfOrigin	Colombia →
fictionalUniverse	Macondo →
firstPublicationForm	book →
firstPublicationYear	1955 →
form	prose fiction →
genre	Latin American literature → magical realism → modernist literature →
hasCharacter	Isabel → the child narrator → the colonel → the doctor →
hasMotif	collective memory → cyclical time → marginalization →
hasTranslation	Leaf Storm (English translation) →
includedIn	Leaf Storm and Other Stories →
influencedBy	William Faulkner → modernist narrative techniques →
introducedFictionalLocation	Macondo →
languageStyle	lyrical prose →
literaryMovement	Boom of Latin American literature →
literarySignificance	first work set in Macondo by Gabriel García Márquez →
narrativePerspective	multiple narrators →
narrativeStructure	nonlinear timeline →
narrativeTechnique	stream of consciousness →
originalLanguage	Spanish →
originalTitle	La hojarasca →
partOf	Macondo cycle →
periodOfStory	early 20th century →
placeOfFirstPublication	Bogotá →
publisher	Editorial S.L.B. (Bogotá) →
relatedWork	No One Writes to the Colonel → One Hundred Years of Solitude →
setting	Macondo →
theme	death → family relationships → memory → moral conflict → social exclusion → solitude → violence →
translator	Gregory Rabassa →

Referenced by (6)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Macondo →	appearsIn
Macondo →	firstAppearance
Leaf Storm ("Leaf Storm (English translation)") →	hasTranslation
Leaf Storm ("Leaf Storm and Other Stories") →	includedIn
Gabriel García Márquez →	notableWork
Gabo →	refersToAuthorOf