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Garcia Marquez: El coronel no tiene quien le escriba (Critical Guides to Spanish & Latin American Texts and Films)

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Gabriel José García Márquez was born on March 6, 1928 in Aracataca, a town in Northern Colombia, where he was raised by his maternal grandparents in a house filled with countless aunts and the rumors of soldiers, lovers and ghosts. It is not coincidence that his grandfather was Colonel Nicolás Ricardo Márquez Mejía, a Liberal veteran of the War of a Thousand Days. In "El Coronel No Tiene Quien Le Escriba" García Márquez explores the native Colombian soul through the eyes of a retired Coronel and his ailing wife. In this short story, where the Coronel awaits in vain for the arrival of his pension, García Márquez focuses on the suffering and ingenuity of the underprivileged and makes us witness to the tests to their patience and hope. As in "Chronicle of a Death Foretold", García Márquez develops his storyline making as breath the strong Hispanic heritage in the Colombian culture and at the same slow pace that transpires in the mythical town Macondo. "El Coronel No Tiene Quien Le Escriba" is one of García Márquez' seminal works.