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Leaf Storm
About the Author
The short story Leaf Storm is written by Gabriel Garc'a Marquez. He was born in 1928, Columbia. Being the finest man of letters of Latin America, he was regarded by many as one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century (Powells. Com).
As a journalist he started his writing career and later became the author of several works of fiction and nonfiction including, One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera. Furthermore, in 1982, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature (Powells. Com).
Overview of the Story:
Marquez's first novel Leaf Storm & Other Stories has its settings in the Macondo that was one of the wrecked and isolated places, which existed in the poverties loneliness when a company of the banana pulled up and went way (Powells. Com). This author revolves the story around the relationship between the Doctor, the Colonel, an evil foreigner and a principled man who took on himself to bury the Doctor (Powells. Com).
The Leaf Storm in its own way has portrayed respect of a far from normal and usual kind, giving a wonderful tale. The metaphors that have been given in the tale suggest are 'symbolic' one way or another and has been stated clearly. Furthermore, the texture used by author is that of the prose poem that further gives its readers the feeling...
However, there exist miracles too that are not understandable to human and that spoke for forces strange to men. Thus, the short story Leaf Storm brings together both author's early as well as late styles of writing (Literary Essays, 1979).
As the story revolves during the early years of the century in a South American town, there was a retired doctor who was known as an odd completely refuses treatment to victims of a riot (Literary Essays, 1979). However, after many years he killed himself by hanging (Literary Essays, 1979).
Here for the unforgiving town, the main argument of the author was the issue as to whether the doctor will get a proper funeral or he would be left like this only to decompose in the house where he quietly killed himself. This issue thus, turns into the central and important point of memories, from many viewpoints, of remains of the doctor's strange history (Wood, 1972).
Through this character, the author tried to convince his readers as to…
Works Cited
The Powells. Com. Leaf Storm, and Other Stories by Gabr Garcia Marquez. www.powells.com
In Pritchett, V.S. The Myth Makers: Literary Essays. New York: Random House, 1979. Criticism on Leaf Storm.
Fefferman, Stanley. Literature Annotations.
A www.endeavor.med.nyu.edu.Literature, Arts & Medicine Database. November, 8, 1995. 47th Edition- October 2002
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