| "Big Mama's Funeral" | |
|---|---|
| Short story by Gabriel García Márquez | |
| Original title | Los funerales de la Mamá Grande |
| Genre(s) | Magical realism |
| Publication | |
| Published in | Los funerales de la Mamá Grande |
| Publication date | 1962 |
"Big Mama's Funeral" (Spanish: Los funerales de la Mamá Grande) is a short story by Gabriel García Márquez. In the story, an unidentified narrator[2] tells a mythical account of a historical event summarized on the first page. Through the exaggerated size of Big Mama herself and her extravagant birthday party, the story satirizes corruption in Latin America at all levels of power.[3] The story is told in a "highly oral style of a public storyteller or carnival barker."[4] The story is set in the mythical town of Macondo, the setting of García Márquez's famous novel One Hundred Years of Solitude (Spanish: Cien años de soledad). Big Mama's Funeral is one of only three of the author's short stories set in the town.[5]
Publication history
editBig Mama's Funeral was first published in 1962 by Universidad Veracruzana Press in a collection of short stories also entitled Los funerales de la Mamá Grande..[6][7][8] It is the final story in the collection.[2]
References
edit- ^ Stavans, Ilan (2010). Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Pasadena, California: Salem Press. p. 105. Retrieved 6 July 2024.
- ^ a b Sims, Robert (1978). "The Creation of Myth in Garcia Marquez' "Los Funerales de la Mama Grande"". Hispania. 61 (1): 15. doi:10.2307/339941. Retrieved 6 July 2024.
- ^ Bell-Villada, Gene (2010). Garcia Marquez: The Man and His Work (2nd ed.). Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press. p. 128. Retrieved 6 July 2024.
- ^ Bell-Villada, Gene (2010). Garcia Marquez: The Man and His Work (2nd ed.). Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press. p. 128. Retrieved 6 July 2024.
- ^ Stavans, Ilan (2010). Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Pasadena, California: Salem Press. p. 105. Retrieved 6 July 2024.
- ^ García Márquez, Gabriel (1962). Los funerales de la Mamá Grande (in Spanish). Xalapa: Universidad Veracruzana. OCLC 3339507.
- ^ "Los funerales de la Mamá Grande". www.gavilan.edu. Retrieved 2023-02-28.
- ^ Stavans, Ilan (2010). Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Pasadena, California: Salem Press. p. 105. Retrieved 6 July 2024.
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