In Chronicle of a Death Foretold Gabriel Garciacutea Maacuterquez uses the device of an un-named shadowy narrator visiting the scene of a killing and beginning an investigation into the past. From the beginning of the text, ...

Background - The borders between genre fiction and literary fiction are growing more porous, with conventions of each crosspollinating in ways not seen previously. Since Miguel de Cervantes¿ Don Quixote, the blending of ...