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Chronicle of a Death Foretold

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

About the Author

A short biography ​
Getting to Know 'Gabo' 
 - an interview with Oprah in 1982
​Tribute to Gabriela Garcia Marquez - NPR
Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Nobel Lecture - given in 1982
Nobel author Gabriel García Márquez wins 17-year legal fight over murder classic - from The Guardian, 2011
Gabriela Garcia Marquez's Road Trip Through Alabama - article in The Paris Review

General Resources

Some facts about Colombia - from Countries and Their Cultures
The murder story that inspired the novel - translated extract from Marquez's autobiography
What is magical realism? - Moore, 1998
Whodunnit? A Textual Investigation of the Deflowering of Angela Vicario in Marquez’s Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Paul Lehmann
Sporting for Love - a blog post by a student about the opening quotation at the start of the novel

Reading Notes

Timeline of events in the novel - could use more detail
Notes on Chapter One

Notes on Chapter Two
Notes on Chapter Three
Notes on Chapter Four
Notes on Chapter Five
  • Home
  • Eng A Langlit
    • Eng A Langlit Course Overview
    • Langlit HL May 2019
    • Langlit SL May 2019
    • Langlit SL May 2020
    • U1 - Language, Identity and Culture
    • U4 - Language and Representation
    • Chronicle of a Death Foretold
    • The Handmaid's Tale
    • As I Lay Dying
  • GCSE English
    • GCSE Assessment Overview
    • Grade 10 2018-19
    • The Secret River
  • Poetry
  • Writing
  • Reading Room