Monoculture represents a hindrance to literary ecocriticism. While the ecocritical project aims to think globally, doing so within the linguistic confines of a single language restricts access to very helpful (but non-Anglo) textual material. I argue that of this material, Gabriel García Márquez’s novels are particularly useful because of his unique execution of magical realism towards environmental ends. This project uses ecocritical scholarship to revisit Márquez’s works and to examine the ways in which his deployments of environmental magical realism synthesize and build upon ecocritical elements from earlier trends in Latin American literature while suggesting new venues of evolution for the hermeneutics of ecocritical trends. Through a close theoretical reading of One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera, and the Autumn of the Patriarch, novels which represent useful case studies for his polemical use of magical realism, I conclude that Márquez explores and suggests ways the field of ecocriticism can parse representations of an adversarial relationship between humans and nature.

This thesis examines the fiction of the Columbian author Gabriel García Márquez, and focuses on hyperbole as a fundamental characteristic of Márquez's fiction. There is special interest in three aspects of his work: setting, people, and themes.

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There are several ways of utilizing the plurality of narrative instances in a novel; the "stereoscopic view", which presents an object through the lens of several perceptions, is one of these ways. This is the case of Des feuilles dans la bourrasque (La Hojarasca), Gabriel Garcia Marquez's first novel, which will be at the center of our reflection on multiple narratives. We will study the structure of the novel through the notion of "parallax", which implies the fragmentation of the object by the marginalization of each one its points of view. However, it is by revealing the "stereoscopic" character of the novel with multiple narratives that the apparent lack of cohesion of the text will be qualified. The study will conclude with the following question: Does the structure of a novel with multiple narratives raise an ethical concern? / Ecluses is a story in five tempos, composed of five chronologically isolated short stories, which are interconnected by a context of common events and characters. The narrative of each of these short stories is supported by a distinct character. Nevertheless, it is the sum of the characters' perceptions, due to the active participation of the reader who has the role of making the different points of view converse, that the story to takes shape and goes forward.

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La mort, « phénomène de la vie » souligne Heidegger, attend l’homme de bien des manières, que García Márquez décline avec une attention significative. La psychologie humaine fait de ses circonstances un spectacle social avec ses rites compensatoires et incantatoires. Face à l’angoisse, l’écriture baroque de l’auteur se fait cathartique. Les aspirations post mortem des personnages marquéziens sont une projection de leur vie terrestre, selon l’analyse de Feuerbach. La plénitude de l’amour entre l’homme et la femme pourrait permettre d’entrevoir la félicité immortelle. Mais seul l’amour pour la justice et la dignité de l’être humain, suggère García Márquez, inscrit celui qui le met en œuvre dans la mémoire collective, faisant de lui un « athanatos ». / Heidegger states that death is « a life phenomenon » which awaits for man in many different ways. This is a significant and recurrent theme in Márquez's work. Human psychology reacts to circumstances, with a social show marked by its compensating and incantory rites. Faced with the fear of death, the baroque style of the writer takes on a cathartic nature. According to Feuerbach’s analysis, the post mortem yearnings of the Marquezian characters are a reflection of their life on earth. The fullness of love between a man and a woman may make it possible to envisage immortality. But García Márquez suggests that only a love for justice and for dignity of human beings, enables he who gives such love to be sustained in the collective memory, making him into an « athanatos ».

This master's thesis in literary creation is composed of two parts. The first one, a literary critic approaches the confrontation between memory and oblivion, in the novelistic work One hundred years of solitude from Colombian Gabriel Garcia Marquez through various themes. Primarily, we explain how this duality is seen through hereditary memories, loneliness, activity and inertia. In the next chapters, we show how this duality is also connected with death, collective and individual memories which contributes to make history and identity, with transformation of the past by careful scrutiny of the writing and sleep themes, and finally, to the memory awakened by associations coming from a sensual perception of the past, along with the significance given to objects and through the omnipresence of repetition. / The second part of this master's thesis untitled Nuits blanches is composed of 6 short stories each casting a women battling her anguish and demons, and who throughout a moment, day or night, loses or thinks she's losing her reason.

Since its publication in 1981, Cronica de una muerte anunciada, has been in general interpreted in terms of tragedy. The death of Santiago Nasar, which is due to the rigid observance of a code of honour concerning women's virginity before marriage, appears to be absurd. Nonetheless, in my opinion, the death of Santiago Nasar acquires meaning the moment the victim is symbolically reborn in the love that eventually will join the disgraced couple. / My interpretation, which relies on both historiography and narrative, is supported by an evaluation of the narrator's role in this fictional world. Significantly enough, the narrator is none other than Gabriel Garcia Marquez who, through a self-splitting fictionalisation, appears as one more among the many characters. Thus, Garcia Marquez as the narrator and a character, relates the events and organizes them into a chronicle. In this sense, he assumes the role of "chronicler-narrator." Yet, he also assumes the role of "oracle-narrator," in the sense that he imbues Santiago Nasar's crime with a mythical dimension which reveals the message of love suggested in the novel. / Another hermeneutic resource applied to my analysis is the analogy I draw between the novel and the Gospel, and my view of Santiago Nasar as a sort of Christ. In my opinion, the character's death is not meaningless because it appeals to give life to the love of a couple and to open the possibility of love for the other characters.