Episode 136: Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Two Short Stories

Nathan Gilmour holds forth with David Grubbs and Michial Farmer on "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" and "The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World," two short stories by recently deceased Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Garcia Marquez was one of the most prominent writers of Spanish-language fiction for a generation, and his pioneering work in realismo magico occupies the Humanists this go-round. Among the writers and other realities engaged are Magical Realism, Borges, hermeneutics, and Kafka.