| There has been little, if any, archetypal criticism of the works of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the Colombian-born Nobel Prize winner, possibly because the author's major work appeared while this school of criticism was beginning to fall out of vogue. This thesis argues that, fashion notwithstanding, archetype and myth provide the most compelling guide for analyzing two works by Garcia Marquez---One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera.;Using primary sources, the work of Swiss psychiatrist Carl G. Jung, mythology scholar Joseph Campbell, archetypal critic Richard Hughes, structuralist Claude Levi-Strauss, contemporary scholar Gene H. Bell-Villada, and others, the thesis emphasizes Campbell's idea that myth, a universal language, is inspired by the body's energies, a view in which lungs, heart, intestines, skin, and genitals are messengers carrying the answer to the question of human existence. |
