There are several compendiums in English about the life and work of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982, that help to amplify our understanding of his influence; among the most rewarding are those by Harold Bloom and Gene H. Bell- Villada. In selecting the essays for this volume, the objective has been to reach further and deeper into Garcia Marquez's oeuvre while offering a panoramic view of its principal motifs and obsessions.