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Collected Stories (Gabriel García Márquez)

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Todos los cuentos (or Collected Stories) is a collection of short stories written by Gabriel García Márquez. Released in 1983, it collects stories previously published in three volumes.

Stories within[]

I. Eyes of a Blue Dog[]

  • The Third Resignation
  • Eyes of a Blue Dog
  • Eva Is Inside Her Cat
  • Bitterness for Three Sleepwalkers
  • Dialogue with the Mirror
  • Eyes of a Blue Dog
  • The Woman Who Came at Six O'Clock
  • Nabo: The Black Man Who Made the Angels Wait
  • Someone Has Been Disarranging These Roses
  • The Night of the Curlews
  • Monologue of Isabel Watching It Rain in Macondo

II. Big Mama's Funeral[]

  • Tuesday Siesta
  • One of These Days
  • There Are No Thieves in This Town
  • Balthazar's Marvellous Afternoon
  • Montiel's Widow
  • One Day After Saturday
  • Artificial Roses
  • Big Mama's Funeral

III. The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Eréndira and Her Heartless Grandmother[]

  • A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
  • The Sea of Lost Time
  • The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World
  • Death Constant Beyond Love
  • The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship
  • Blacamán the Good, Vendor of Miracles
  • The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Eréndira and Her Heartless Grandmother

Publisher's summary[]

Collected here are twenty-six of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's most brilliant and enchanting short stories, presented in the chronological order of their publication in Spanish from three volumes: Eyes of a Blue Dog, Big Mama's Funeral, and The Incredible and Sad Tale of lnnocent Eréndira and Her Heartless Grandmother.

Combining mysticism, history, and humor, the stories in this collection span more than two decades, illuminating the development of Marquez's prose and exhibiting the themes of family, poverty, and death that resound throughout his fiction.

Notable reviews[]

Author John Updike said of this collection, "The stories are rich and startling in their matter and confident and elegant in their manner." Similar praise came from the ALA Booklist (which said "This collection is a wondrous mixture of realism and truth-stretching, with humour the glue that holds the two together.") and the Baltimore Sun (which said "Fables which, like dreams, express a profound wisdom quite beyond logic, and distill moral, emotional and political complexities into symbols and metaphors of astonishing clarity.")

Sources[]

  • Goodreads
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