‘The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship’ is a 1968 short story by the Colombian writer Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez (1927-2014). The story, which consists of one long sentence, tells of a mysterious ocean liner which appears near a coastal village one night every March. As with much of the fiction […]
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings’ is a 1968 short story by the Colombian writer Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez (1927-2014). Like much of his fiction, this story is an example of magic realism (which we’ll say more about below). Subtitled ‘A Tale for Children’, […]
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World’ is a short story by the Colombian writer Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez, published in his 1972 collection Leaf Storm and Other Stories. A story about acceptance, community, and honouring the dead, ‘The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World’ […]