Gene H. Bell-Villada
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- July 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780807833513
- eISBN:
- 9781469604473
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/9780807895382_bell-villada.11
- Subject:
- Literature, American, 20th Century Literature
Even when García Márquez was only in his early twenties, his writings (as a journalist) presented fully formed and mature worldviews coupled with his unmistakable wit and humor. Considering himself ...
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Even when García Márquez was only in his early twenties, his writings (as a journalist) presented fully formed and mature worldviews coupled with his unmistakable wit and humor. Considering himself as an antiacademic, antiestablishment, and antisolemn, García Márquez's political leftism was conveyed as subtlely as he allowed it to be. García Márquez considered himself as an independent leftist, a Marxist of his own kind, well until his mature years. In this chapter, his views of other countries such as the United States and Soviet Russia, and his political stance, are analyzed and discussed.Less
Even when García Márquez was only in his early twenties, his writings (as a journalist) presented fully formed and mature worldviews coupled with his unmistakable wit and humor. Considering himself as an antiacademic, antiestablishment, and antisolemn, García Márquez's political leftism was conveyed as subtlely as he allowed it to be. García Márquez considered himself as an independent leftist, a Marxist of his own kind, well until his mature years. In this chapter, his views of other countries such as the United States and Soviet Russia, and his political stance, are analyzed and discussed.
