Narrative transculturation and decadence in Of Love and other demons, by Gabriel García Márquez.
: Literature; Latin America; narrative transculturation; decadence.
The present work is part of the debate on the characteristics of contemporary Latin American literature and its link with the social aspects of the region. Its main objective is to analyze the relationship between narrative transculturation, an expression coined by Ángel Rama from the anthropology of Cuban Fernando Ortiz, which appears in the literary context that is formulated from the specific characteristics of Latin America, and the decadence of that same region. To this end, we chose the book Of Love and other demons, by the Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez, also establishing the theoretical links between narrative transculturation and the decadence proposed by the Hungarian thinker György Lukács, since both allow analyzing the subcontinental historical reality in literature. and some of its universal aspects. Our hypothesis for the proposed problem is that, in the book, Márquez not only incorporates the concept of transculturation in its three levels, but, based on it, exposes elements of the already decadent Latin American colonial period.