Refletindo a história da América Latina: uma análise da obra Ninguém escreve ao Coronel de Gabriel García Márquez

Abstract

This work sought to analyze Gabriel García Márquez's Nobody Writes to the Colonel, identifying the perspective of magical realism as a narrative strategy for reinterpreting Latin American history. It starts from the experience of Colombia in a part of the 20th century marked by conflict and social exclusion. The analysis seeks to demonstrate how the author articulates elements of everyday life to build a critique of institutional abandonment and the unfulfilled promises of the state. According to Irlemar Chiampi (1980), magical realism is understood not as an exotic resource, but as a language of resistance, which breaks with Western historical narrative and inserts Latin American collective memory into literature through its own forms of expression. The experience of the colonel, the main character in the story, reveals the fear, terror and violence that was also part of the lives of thousands of other Latin Americans in other countries. Gabriel García Márquez portrays a story that at certain moments is shared, rescuing the memory of marginalized populations in Latin America, showing the power of literature to rescue silenced voices and build other ways of reading reality, rescuing elements that official history has failed to reach.