Gabriel García Márquez was considered one of the most significant authors in the Spanish language. Rising to prominence with One Hundred Years of Solitude, his fiction is widely read and studied throughout the world.

This invaluable Guide draws on both Western and Latin American critical and scholarly sources in English and Spanish to give a wide-ranging but in-depth survey of the global debate over García Márquez’s fiction. It explores the major critical responses to his key works, spanning both lesser-known his short fiction and well-known novels, such as Love in the Time of Cholera. Jay Corwin discusses both European and US-centric interpretations, balancing these with indigenous and Hispanic contexts and references to give the reader an overarching understanding of the global reception of García Márquez’s work.