Configuraciones del "Aleph" y la trascendencia histórica en el periodismo de Gabriel García Márquez (1947-1955)

Abstract

George McMurray, in his 1985 article, commented upon the links between the apocalyptic ending of One Hundred Years of Solitude and the epiphany of Borges' "El Aleph." In this study I trace the origins of this vision in the work of the Colombian writer. As a young journalist, García Márquez wrote over 800 newspaper columns, several of which demonstrate his fascination for these pinnacle moments of vision or knowledge, a momentary glimpse of all time and space, an instant where the human imagination can capture the meaning of the universe. The novelist has repeatedly pointed to his early journalism as the laboratory of his mature fiction, the site that allowed him the opportunity for literary experimentation. It is my contention that the origins of the last Buendía's epiphany can be glimpsed in several columns which represent a lietmotif in García Márquez' early writing.