Abstract
Hegel in the 'Phenomenology of Spirit' and Gabriel Garcia Marquez in 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' both use metafictional devices to convince the reader of the reality of what is being read. However, Hegel's use of metafiction for both philosophical and rhetorical purposes achieves a more realistic effect than Garcia Marquez's because Hegel is more interested in truthfulness, whereas Garcia Marquez wishes only to blur the boundaries between fiction and reality.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 401-410 |
Number of pages | 10 |
Journal | Clio |
Volume | 21 |
Issue number | 4 |
State | Published - 1992 |
Bibliographical note
Reprinted in Jeffrey W. Hunter and Tom Burns, eds., Contemporary LiteraryCriticism (Detroit: Thomas Gale, 2002), 322-337.
Also Reprinted in Harold Bloom, ed., Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred
Years of Solitude (Philadelphia: Chelsea, 2003), 115-24.
Keywords
- 1900-1999
- Cien años de soledad
- Colombian literature
- Die Phänomenologie des Geistes
- Fiction
- Garcia Marquez, Gabriel
- Garcia Marquez, Gabriel (1928-2014)
- García Márquez, Gabriel
- Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
- Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich (1770-1831)
- Literary criticism
- metafiction
- Methods
- novel
- Philosophy
- rhetoric