García Márquez's Literary Smuggling in The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor.

The article focuses on Colombian novelist Gabriel García Márquez's unique blend of journalism and fiction in "The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor," and it highlights the challenges to journalistic conventions by presenting the reportage as a transcription of real conversations and incorporating fictio...

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Published in:	Texas Studies in Literature & Language Vol. 66; no. 1; pp. 67 - 92
Main Author:	Muñoz-Solano, Néfer
Format:	Literary Criticism
Published:	University of Texas Press Spring2024
Subjects:	García Márquez, Gabriel, 1927-2014 Colombian novelists Storytelling Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor, The (Book) Latin American literature 20th century (Literary period)
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Summary:	The article focuses on Colombian novelist Gabriel García Márquez's unique blend of journalism and fiction in "The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor," and it highlights the challenges to journalistic conventions by presenting the reportage as a transcription of real conversations and incorporating fictional elements, a practice known as "literary smuggling." It explores the tradition of journalist-writers in Latin American literature.