Gabriel Garcia Marquez Through Prism Of Narratology

Narratology is also called as 'structuralist reading of text'. The book offers a profound way to apply narratological insights to any text. Gabriel Garcia Marquez is an internationally celebrated writer whose fiction has been put to the narratological scrutinizes here. The book is generally about the application of Genette's narratological model and theory to the select fiction of Garcia Marquez. The book also encompasses a detailed and workable history of narratology. Magical realist narratives of Marquez are narratologically 'metaleptic' displaying the logic of their 'being' and throwing into doubt the normal sense of reality and fiction. The biggest challenge comes from his unique, magical and real treatment of time as a fundamental category of narratology. Many scholars have found Garcia's fiction as very complex and difficult to read and understand. In this book this difficulty has been countered by discovering the basic concept of time which is 'figurative time' i.e., altogether different from essentially linear concept of time. This concept of time is linear and circular and paranormal simultaneously encouraging us to redefine what is LOGICAL after all.