`The Paralysis of the Instant': The Stagnation of History and the Stylistic Suspension of Time in Gabriel Garcia Marquez's La hojarasca.

Leaf Storm & Other Stories (Book); García Márquez, Gabriel, 1927-2014; La Hojarasca (Book); Latin American fiction; Magic realism (Literature); Colombian fiction; Twentieth century

Explores how in his first novel Gabriel Garcia Marquez undertook the task of steering the Colombian novel in a new direction through his experimentation with one of the fundamental underpinnings of the realist novel, linear time. Description on how he suspends the forward movement of time in `La hojarasca', or 'Leaf Storm,' as it is know in English; Brief overview of Garcia Marquez's relationship to the Euro-American modernists; Argument on the technical innovations of literary modernism.