Gabriel García Márquez

I remember the first time I read “The last voyage of the ghost ship” (1968), a short story in the form of one very long sentence (marquez, 1979). When I finished it, it did not occur to me to wonder what the “point” of it was, or what it “meant”. I could only shake my head in disbelief. One Hundred Years of Solitude, a family saga of sorts, is the Gaudí cathedral in the Republic of Letters (Márquez, 1970).

We do not actually learn what Gabriel García Márquez eats for breakfast in this study guide; but we seem to...