GERALD MARTIN

PhD, University of Edinburgh, UK
Professor Emeritus

gmmgmm@pitt.edu

Focus: 20th-Century Latin American narrative; best known for his work on Miguel Angel Asturias and Gabriel García Márquez

Publications

Gabriel García Márquez: A Life, London: Bloomsbury, 2008.

“Spanish American Narrative Since 1970”, in John King, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Latin American Culture (Cambridge University Press, 2004), pp. 105–118.

“Los Estados Unidos en que vivió Martí” [with Gail Martin], in Roberto Fernández Retamar and Pedro Pablo Rodríguez, eds., José Martí, En los Estados Unidos (Paris and Madrid, Archivos/Unesco, 2003), pp.1802–1847.

“Il romanzo di un continente: l’America Latina”, in Franco Moretti, ed., Il romanzo, vol.III: Storia e geografia (Turin, Einaudi, 2002), pp. 505–529.

“Translating García Márquez, or, the Impossible Dream”, in D Balderston and M Schwartz, eds., Voice-Overs: Translation and Latin American Literature, State University of New York Press, Albany, 2002, pp. 156–163.