Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez (Book Analysis)

This practical and insightful reading guide offers a complete summary and analysis of Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez. It provides a thorough exploration of the novella’s plot, characters and main themes, including honor, the power of destiny and the search for the truth. The clear and concise style makes for easy understanding, providing the perfect opportunity to improve your literary knowledge in no time.

This clear and detailed 58-page reading guide is structured as follows:

• Biography of Gabriel García Márquez
• Presentation of Chronicle of a Death Foretold
• Summary of Chronicle of a Death Foretold
• Character study
  • Santiago Nasar
  • Pablo and Pedro Vicario
  • Ángela Vicario
  • Bayardo San Román
  • Plácida Linero
  • Cristóbal Bedoya
  • Victoria Guzmán and Divina Flor
  • Don Lázaro Aponte
  • Clotilde Armenta
  • The narrator
  • The other townspeople
• Analysis of Chronicle of a Death Foretold
  • Form
  • Themes

About Chronicle of a Death Foretold

Chronicle of a Death Foretold was inspired by real events in Sucre, Colombia the 1950s, and tells the story of a 21-year-old man who is murdered for his alleged role in bringing dishonor to a young bride and her family. Although virtually everyone in the unnamed Colombian coastal town where the story is set knows that the Vicario brothers are planning to kill Santiago Nasar, nobody warns him until it is already too late. 27 years after that fateful day, one of Santiago’s friends sets about reconstructing the events leading up to the murder and unraveling the mystery at its heart.

About Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel García Márquez was a Colombian writer and one of the leading figures of magical realism, a genre which features magical elements against a realistic backdrop and is often associated with Latin American literature. Some of his best-known works, including One Hundred Years of Solitude, form part of this current, and have inspired generations of writers around the world.

García Márquez wrote novels, novellas, short stories and non-fiction works over the course of a literary career spanning almost 50 years, and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982 for his books “in which the fantastic and the realistic are combined in a richly composed world of imagination, reflecting a continent’s life and conflict”.