DISCOURSE OF SOCIO-PSYCHOLOGICAL REALITY IN GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ’S CHRONICLE OF A DEATH FORETOLD

Abstract

This paper proposes to examine Gabriel Garcia Marquez is concerned with an even more concretesocial reality and a less concrete but more common human passion like love in all its psychological dimensions. As a whole, Marquez’s novel, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, represent the levels of reality - social and psychological - that constitute the kernel of the author’scomprehensive realism. Hence, the paper chose the mostrepresentative novel of Marquez which reflect his many-sided vision of lifeand his inner growth as a novelist. Chronicle of a Death Foretold gives us aconcentrated picture of thecontemporary Latin-American society characterized by falsemachismo and meaningless violence.