Citation

Collado-Rodríguez F. Atlantis 2005; 27(2): 27-40.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2005, Spanish Association of English Studies, Universidad de Jaén)

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Abstract

After locating US writer Jeffrey Eugenides against the background of recent minimalist fiction, this essay evaluates the influence of García Márquez's narratives Cien años de soledad and Crónica de una muerte anunciada on his first novel, The Virgin Suicides. Centered on the novel's magical-realist features, the contrastive analysis contends that The Virgin Suicides revives a distinctive modernist mythical impulse. Based on its literary borrowings, this impulse materializes in the endorsement of ancestral beliefs in a female principle and in the ethical demand to put an end to the gradual annihilation of the planet by post-industrial societies.

Language: en

Keywords

Ethical turn; Feminism; Gabriel garcía márquez; Intertextuality; Jeffrey eugenides; Magical realism; Modernist anthropology; Postmodernism