The colonel has no one to write to him
The colonel has no one to write to him (Spanish El coronel no tiene quien le escriba ) is a story by the Colombian Nobel Prize winner Gabriel García Márquez . It was created in 1956 and 1957 and was first published in 1961. Thus, it is after Leaf Storm ( La hojarasca ) of 1955, the second release of the author, which six years later Hundred Years of Solitude ( Cien años de soledad succeeded) the breakthrough. A short prose collection by García Márquez was named after the story.
action
The action takes place at the time of La Violencia in a Colombian tropical village, in which daily life has come to a standstill due to the ruling military regime. The Colonel, a veteran from the Thousand Days ' War , is waiting with his wife for confirmation of his veteran's pension, which has been denied him for 15 years. However, he does not want to sell his only possession, the fighting cock of his shot son, but lets him fight in the village. Over time, the rooster becomes a symbol of hope and resistance for the village.
background
Unlike most of García Márquez's other works, the narrative is not attributable to magical realism .
In his autobiography Vivir para contarla , the author writes that the story was inspired by the fate of his grandfather, who was also a colonel, and who never received the promised pension. It is also believed that the author's unemployment in 1956 also influenced the narrative.
filming
It was filmed in 1999 under the title No Post for the Colonel under the direction of Arturo Ripstein . Fernando Luján plays the role of colonel .
expenditure
- Gabriel García Márquez: El coronel no tiene quien le escriba (= Biblioteca Era ), Ediciones Era, México 1961, OCLC 879227185
- Gabriel García Márquez: The colonel has no one who writes to him , a novel, translated and with an afterword by Curt Meyer-Clason , Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Cologne 1976 (German-language first edition), ISBN 3-462-01179-0 ; Paperback edition: Fischer Taschenbuch , Volume 16259, Fischer Taschenbuchverlag, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 978-3-596-16259-8 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Márquez on www.nobelpreis.org ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ The colonel has no one to write to him at Fischer Verlag ( Memento of the original of February 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ The colonel has no one to write to him at Literaturprogramme.de ( Memento of the original from May 1, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
