Big Mom's Funeral The story of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Big Mama's funeral is a complete story of fantasy scenes and events, consistent with Don Quixote and Candido. Since Big Mama's funeral and Candide's introductory text are very similar, the two authors may be mistaken for the same. In Candide, people find a series of episodes that are far from the truth and even completely descriptable. The fate of Dr. Pangloss, the story of Cunegund and the death and resurrection of her Jesuit brothers, and the story of an old lady with her back are as absurd as the funeral episode of Big Mama.
Several of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's short stories can be found in the Funeral collection of Big Mama called Los funerales delamamagrande, first published in Mexico in 1962. Some are considered to be the most perfect example of Latin American history. Most of them were written in difficult times in the late 1950s when Garcia Marquez was living a simple life in Europe and Venezuela. He told the background of the short story sponsored by Caracas' newspaper El Nacional on Tuesday, and submitted the story "Siesta Derma Ruthes", which did not even win the honor award. A few years later, his best friend Alvaro Mutis sent a note to him in a Mexican prison asking him to read his sentence and read something. Garcia Marquez sent him eight short stories, and Mutis lent these short stories to a newly born young Mexican writer Elena Poniatovsk who misplaced them. They are
A reader who likes this story might want to explore other works by Garcia Marquez. An incredibly sad story of Big Mama's funeral (1962) and innocent Ellendila and her ruthless grandmother (1972) is a collection of short stories, and many of them also embody the principle of magical realism I will. The novel "One hundred years of solitude" (1967) depicts a wonderful village of Macdon through the complex history of three generations of the top family of the town. Here, Garcia Max creates a dreamlike, multi-level landscape realized with this short story, like the love of the Cholera era (written in 1985, set in a town without name) did. A more detailed view than the village. For many critics, one hundred years of solitude still represents the highest achievement of magical realism.