The ordinary and the rare: ice and snow in Gabriel García Márquez's Cien años de soledad and James Joyce's "The dead"

Authors

  • Victoria Saramago Pádua Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5380/rel.v78i0.15813

Keywords:

Joyce, García Márquez, narrativa

Abstract

This article proposes a contrastive study of James Joyce's short story “The Dead”, and Gabriel García Márquez's novel Cien años de soledad, through the utilization of a same element: snow and/or ice. In one case, it is conclusive, melancolic and universalizating. In the other, introductory, vibrant and exotic. In both, its presence turns out to be an interesting means to analyse, in each work, notions such as local, universal, trivial and exotic, as well as the narrative solutions developed by Joyce and Márquez, distinct but curiously similar.

Author Biography

Victoria Saramago Pádua, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ)

Mestranda em Literatura Brasileira pela Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro. Graduada em Letras (Português/Literaturas) pela mesma universidade.

How to Cite

Saramago Pádua, V. (2009). The ordinary and the rare: ice and snow in Gabriel García Márquez’s Cien años de soledad and James Joyce’s "The dead". Revista Letras, 78. https://doi.org/10.5380/rel.v78i0.15813

Issue

Section

Estudos Literários