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For further works by Gabriel Garcia Márquez, please see: Leaf Storm; No One Writes to the Colonel; Memories of My Melancholy Whores; In Evil Hour; One Hundred Years of Solitude; The Autumn of the Patriarch; Love in the Time of Cholera; The General in His Labyrinth; Of Love and Other Demons; and We Will Meet in August.
Other important authors from the "boom period" in Latin American Literature include Julio Cortázar, Manuel Puig, Carlos Fuentes, Mario Vargas Llosa, and José Donoso.
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The Question and Answer section for Chronicle of a Death Foretold is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
Birds were the bad omen that foretold Santiago's death.
Machismo-an important part of Chronicle of a Death Foretold-can be seen in the emphasis on male pride in the novel and on the sexual behavior of the male characters. The men take pride in visiting Maria Cervantes's brothel, where they use women...
While Placida is able to explain why she locked the main door, left unlocked, the door would have provided Santiago entrance and safety. Placida also laments that she did not notice the omens in Santiago's dreams.
