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Kein Brief für den Oberst : Erzählungen /

Coronel no tiene quien le escriba is a novella by Gabriel García Márquez about an impoverished, retired colonel who waits 15 years for a promised pension that never arrives, symbolizing lost hope and dignity in post-civil war Colombia.The colonel lives with his asthmatic wife in poverty in the ficti...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: García Márquez, Gabriel, 1927-2014 (Author)
Other Authors: Brock, Ana Maria (Translator), Barck, Karlheinz (Translator), Rincón, Carlos, 1940- (writer of afterword.)
Format: Book
Language:German
Published: Berlin, Weimar : Aufbau-Verlag, 1968.
Edition:1. Auflage.
Subjects:
Macondo (Imaginary place) > Fiction.
Colombia > Social life and customs > Fiction.
City and town life > South America > Fiction.
Small cities > South America > Fiction.
Retired military personnel > Fiction.
García Márquez, Gabriel, > 1927-2014 > Translations into German.
Novellas.
Short stories.
Table of Contents:
  • Kein Brief für den Oberst [El coronel no tiene quien le escriba] / Gabriel García Márquez
  • Am Dienstag um die Mittagsstunde [La siesta del Martes]
  • Baltazars grosser Tag [La prodigiosa tarde de Baltazar]
  • Die Beerdigung der alten Dame [Los funerales de la Mamá Grande]
  • Nachwort / Carlos Rincón.