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Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Author	Gabriel García Márquez
Country	Colombia
Publisher	La Oveja Negra
Publication date	1981
1983
Media type	Print
Pages	122
ISBN	978-0-14-015754-3
OCLC	43223288

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“This investigation of an ancient murder takes on the quality of a hallucinatory exploration, a deep groping search into the gathering darkness of human. From a general summary to chapter summaries to explanations of famous quotes, the SparkNotes Chronicle of a Death Foretold Study Guide has everything you need to ace quizzes, tests, and essays.

Chronicle of a Death Foretold (Spanish: Crónica de una muerte anunciada) is a novella by Gabriel García Márquez, published in 1981. It tells, in the form of a pseudo-journalistic reconstruction, the story of the murder of Santiago Nasar by the two Vicario brothers.

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Plot[edit]

The non-linear story, told by an anonymous narrator, begins with the morning of Santiago Nasar's death. The reader learns that Santiago lives with his mother, Placida Linero; the cook, Victoria Guzman; and the cook's daughter, Divina Flor. Santiago took over the successful family ranch after the death of his father Ibrahim, who was of Arab origin. He returns home in the early morning hours from an all night celebration of a wedding between a recent newcomer, Bayardo San Roman, and a long-term resident, Angela Vicario. Two hours after the wedding, Angela was dragged back to her mother's home by Bayardo because she was not a virgin. After a beating from her mother, Angela is forced to reveal the name of the man who has defiled her purity and honor. In a somewhat spurious manner, she reveals the man to be Santiago. Her two twin brothers, Pablo and Pedro Vicario, decide to kill Santiago in order to avenge the insult to their family honor with two knives previously used to slaughter pigs.

They proceed to the meat market in the pre-dawn hours to sharpen their knives, and announce to the owner and other butchers that they plan to kill Santiago. No one believes the threat because the brothers are such 'good people', or they interpret the threat as 'drunkards' baloney'. Faustino Santos, a butcher friend, becomes suspicious and reports the threat to the policeman, Leandro Pornoy. The brothers proceed to Clotilde Armenta's milk shop where they tell her about the plan to kill Santiago, and she notices the knives wrapped in rags. Meanwhile, Officer Leandro talks with Colonel Aponte who, after leisurely dressing and enjoying his breakfast, proceeds to the milk shop and takes away their knives and sends them off to sleep though he considers them 'a pair of big bluffers'. Clotilde wants 'to spare those poor boys from the horrible duty' and tries to convince Colonel Aponte to investigate further so they can be stopped. He does nothing more. Since the brothers had announced their plans to kill Santiago at the meat market and the milk store, the news spreads through town, but no one directly warns Santiago. Clotilde asks everyone she sees to warn Santiago, but people do not warn him for several reasons: they assume he must have been warned already, believe that someone else should warn him, can't find him easily, don't believe it will happen, are too excited about the Bishop's arrival, want him secretly dead, or believe the killing to be justified. The brothers show up again to the milk shop with two new knives, and this time Pedro has hesitations about killing because he feels they had fulfilled their duty 'when the mayor disarmed them'. Nevertheless, they yell their plans to kill Santiago. Even the priest later confesses, 'I didn't know what to do...it wasn't any business of mine but something for the civil authorities.' He decides to mention it to Santiago's mother, but because he was excited about the bishop coming, he forgets about Santiago.

Santiago wakes up after an hour's sleep to get dressed and greet the bishop, who is expected by the townsfolk to stop in their town on his way elsewhere. He misses the note on the floor that someone has left with a warning and details about the Vicario plan. The bishop's boat passes by the town without stopping even though people have been waiting for him with various gifts. Santiago then proceeds to his fiancée, who yells, '...I hope they kill you!' because she is upset about his involvement with Angela Vicario and decides not to warn him.

The murder occurs. After the murder, the Vicario family leaves town due to the scandal and disgrace surrounding the events of Angela's wedding and Santiago's murder. Bayardo San Roman leaves town as well; his family comes by boat and picks him up. The Vicario twins spend three years in prison awaiting trial, but are acquitted in court, after which Pablo marries his lover and Pedro leaves for the armed forces.

Only after Bayardo rejects Angela does she fall in love with him. After she moves away from the town with her family, Angela writes him a letter each day for seventeen years. At the end of seventeen years, Bayardo returns to her, carrying all of her letters in bundles, all unopened.

The murder of Santiago Nasar is described. His friend Cristo Bedoya had frantically looked for Santiago on the morning of the murder to warn him of the plan, but Cristo Bedoya failed to find Santiago, who was actually at his fiancée Flora Miguel's house. When Flora Miguel's father finds out, he warns Santiago minutes before the twins reach Santiago. Santiago becomes disoriented from the news and starts to run home. His mother, who is finally told, believes he is inside the house and, therefore, bars the front door to which Santiago is running while being chased by the Vicario brothers. He is repeatedly stabbed as he attempts to enter his home, over twenty times total with seven fatal wounds, as they discovered in an ill-performed autopsy performed by the priest. The murder is brutal as Santiago carries his own entrails and enters the back door of his home. He collapses in his kitchen and dies.

Inspiration[edit]

The novella was based on real-life events that occurred to García Márquez's godbrother. García Márquez heard the story of a young couple that got married in Sucre and, on the day following their wedding, the groom rejected the bride due to her lack of virginity. The bride was determined to have had relations with her former boyfriend, who was consequently pursued and murdered by the bride's two brothers in order to avenge the family's honor. Though many publications speculated that García Márquez had witnessed the murder firsthand, the writer was in fact not present during the events, which took place in Sucre in 1951.^[1]

There are a few key differences in the action of the story and what took place in reality. For one, in the novella, Santiago Nasar did not have a prior relationship with Ángela Vicario before her wedding, whereas in real life, the bride was deflowered by her former boyfriend. Additionally, García Márquez chose to make the two assassins in the novella twins, Pablo and Pedro Vicario. In real life, they were simply brothers. Lastly, in the book, there is a reconciliation between Ángela and the groom who rejects her, Bayardo San Roman. In real life, there was no such reconciliation.^[1]

Key themes[edit]

The central question at the core of the novella is how the death of Santiago Nasar was foreseen, yet no one tried to stop it. The narrator explores the circumstances surrounding his death by asking the villagers who were present during his murder and exploring the seeming contradiction of a murder that was predicted in advance. The book explores the morality of the village's collective responsibility in the murder of Santiago Nasar.

Unlike the traditional detective novel, Chronicle of a Death Foretold doesn't investigate the murder, which is made clear from the first sentence. Instead, the true mystery is the violation of Ángela Vicario.

Another key motif is the use of omens and premonitions (keeping in the theme of 'foretelling'). The weather, dreams, and nature all provide evidence of what is to come in the novella.

Adaptations[edit]

It was translated into English by Gregory Rabassa and Edith Grossman. The book was adapted for the big screen in the Spanish language film: Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1987), an Italian-French-Colombian co-production, directed by Francesco Rosi, starring Ornella Muti, Rupert Everett and Anthony Delon.In 1995, Graciela Daniele adapted it into the Tony Award-nominated Broadwaymusical of the same name, which she also directed and choreographed.

A Romanian short film was made in 2007.

Editions[edit]

ISBN1-4000-3471-X
ISBN978-0-14-103246-7

References[edit]

^ ^a^bHart, Stephen (1994). Gabriel García Márquez: Crónica de una muerte anunciada. Grant & Cutler.

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A man returns to the town where a baffling murder took place twenty-seven years earlier, determined to get to the bottom of the story. Just hours after marrying the beautiful Angela Vicario, everyone agrees, Bayardo San Roman returned his bride in disgrace to her parents. Her distraught family forced her to name her first lover; and her twin brothers announced their intent...more

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This question contains spoilers…(view spoiler)[Do you think Angela slept with Santiago or did she only bluff in order to save her true lover? (hide spoiler)]

V. PARENTAL GUIDANCE: A Court of Wings and Ruin is NEW ADULT/EROTICA but Goodreads editors won't tell youConsidering the misogynism of the author I think he was ready to doubt that a rape victim was telling the truth. Abuse victims don't come forward…moreConsidering the misogynism of the author I think he was ready to doubt that a rape victim was telling the truth. Abuse victims don't come forward because they know that nobody will believe them. Garcia Marques immediatly assumed that she was trying to cover a lover. Because in rape-culture a woman is always to blame
Remember that Santiago was ready to rape the Divina Flore the little black UNDERAGE girl that lived in his house like his father did before with Divina's mother. Remember that he got drunk a lot and that he liked to use women. Wouldn't a man like that rape Angela during a party in their teens and then forget about it because he was so drunk?
Just as Garcia Marques is predisposed to doubt women I'm predisposed to believe rape victims. (less)

Paola Cepeda Garcíano. if you are learning spanish, perhaps you should read a book that is simpler to understand. I read the book, and as a native spanish peaker i can…moreno. if you are learning spanish, perhaps you should read a book that is simpler to understand. I read the book, and as a native spanish peaker i can say that i was a bit confused. The story is like one of the movies where nothing makes sense until the end, and you have to follow the narrative closely so as not to get lost. It is an excellent book, just not for that purpose.(less)

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Jul 08, 2007Ian rated it it was amazing

I own about 70 copies of illegally-photocopied versions of this book so I can use it with my students in class. And unlike most books I teach, I read this one every year.
Why? 'Cuz it's an unbelievable text.
I firmly believe that Santiago Nasar is one of literature's greatest Christ-figures. Many of Garcia's books have Christ-figures, of course, but Santiago is Jesus with a twist. When the book starts, Santiago is portrayed as a bad man who is wasteful and immoral and violent. When he is fingered...more

Aug 12, 2018Amalia Gavea rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: classics, colombia, crime, latin-american, magical-realism, mystery, world-literature, favorites, literary-fiction

‘’There had never been a death more foretold.’’
Santiago is murdered in the market of a Colombian town. The perpetrators are two brothers. His crime? The supposed defilement of their sister, whose marriage to a young man was broken because she wasn’t a virgin. Márquez does something extraordinary here. He creates one of his finest works, a crime mystery where the question isn’t who or what but why. Why did everything happen in such a way? Why do people have to resort to such actions? Why are we...more

Sep 13, 2016Brina rated it really liked it

Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez who is best known for his One Hundred Years of Solitude penned a novella A Chronicle of Death Foretold based on real life events that he witnessed. In this novella, Marquez tells through the eyes of an unnamed narrator the events that lead to the murder of Santiago Nasar. It is in the characterizations of the personas this short book that we get a taste of Marquez' brilliance which won him many honors during his writing career.
Santiago Nasar is the only chi...more

Mar 24, 2009Ahmad Sharabiani rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, spanish, latin-american, magical-realism, literature, 20th-century

Crónica de una muerte anunciada = Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Gabriel García Márquez
Chronicle of a Death Foretold (Spanish: Crónica de una muerte anunciada) is a novella by Gabriel García Márquez, published in 1981. It tells, in the form of a pseudo-journalistic reconstruction, the story of the murder of Santiago Nasar by the two Vicario brothers.
Characters: Santiago Nasar, Ángela Vicario, Bayardo San Román, Pablo and Pedro Vicario
تاریخ نخستین خوانش: روز اول ماه می سال 1994 میلادی
عنوان: گزارش...more

Jun 25, 2019Jim Fonseca rated it it was amazing

Truth in the title: the title tells us exactly the plot of the novel.
A man is stabbed to death. He’s a fairly wealthy young man (he’s 21) who runs a cattle ranch inherited from his father. There’s an interesting ethnic twist: His father’s family speaks Arabic at home and his Spanish mother on occasion calls him “white man.” Although the locals call his family ‘Turks,’ because they are Catholic, it’s likely they were Lebanese and arrived in Colombia (where the story is set) from the great mixing...more

Dec 29, 2014Jibran rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

There had never been a death so foretold.
Márquez's oeuvre may be roughly divided into two streams of writing: the magician of One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera and the journalist-adventurer of this novel and News of a Kidnapping. The ominous world of magic realism closes shop when Marquez switches his gears to journalistic storytelling. But may be not quite; because right from the opening scene an eerie premonition trails at the heels of Santiago Nasar and, do what h...more

Jun 01, 2017Steven Godin rated it really liked it

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Stabbing a man to death is not as easy as it sounds, after all, it took 23 swipes at poor old Julius Caesar, but only one of them was actually deemed fatal. It takes a hell of an effort.
Not like that seen in those pathetic slasher movies, where a big breasted peroxide blonde is chased around a mansion by a nutcase bearing a huge blade that only dishes out flesh wounds.
Chronicling the murder of one Santiago Nasar in a small unnamed South American village, Márquez dazzles in a fictional world tha...more

Mar 15, 2018Mutasim Billah rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

'On the day they were going to kill him, Santiago Nasar got up at five-thirty in the morning to wait for the boat the bishop was coming on.'
A grand wedding. A gruesome murder. And a multitude of lives changed forever. Chronicle of a Death Foretold is a novella which recounts a fictionalized account inspired by an actual incident of honor-killing in Colombia back in 1951, now immortalized in this 1981 novella.
The story is about the series of events leading up to a murder, and its aftermath. It is...more

Before I started reading this book, Goodreads have already recorded 73,000 ratings and 3,500 reviews.
When I was reading this book, I found out some friends had read this book at his/her school age. How lucky you are, my friends. This is a good novel.
There are thousands correct ways to write a story. This novel used one of the rarely used ways. It was using non-linear timeline story, move back-and-forth between multi POV from a same morning when the incident occurred. It was not the first story...more

Oct 25, 2015 Cronicas De Una Muerte Anunciada

Kevin Ansbro rated it it was amazing

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I read this short masterpiece ages ago, but it only recently resurfaced in my mind, like a forgotten dream. It's a tense drama of murder foretold, written in the magical realism style for which Columbian novelist, Marquez, was lionised.
I really need to read it again to reacquaint myself with its succulent excellence.
(Ditto, Don Quixote, and so many other exquisitely-written novels that are now consigned to the backroom of my cluttered mind).

Feb 05, 2017Luís C. rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

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In a small Caribbean village, the inhabitants finally fall asleep after the great feast given at the wedding of Bayardo San Roman and Angela Vicario.
But at two o'clock in the morning, the bridegroom suddenly brings Angela back to her parents' house. He repudiates her because she lied about her virginity at the time of the marriage.
When the twins Pedro and Pablo Vicario, Angela's brothers, go home, they decide to avenge the family honor by killing Santiago Nasar, the one who, according to their s...more

Jan 13, 2016Χαρά Ζ. rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

_Chronicle of a Death Foretold_
oh God, I love Marquez

Jul 16, 2013Vanessa J. rated it really liked it

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I can't believe I had not written a review for this book. Since I'm constantly recommending it to people, I should have written a review at some point... but I didn't. Now is the time when I try to do it justice with this, as it is one of my fave books.
Chronicle of a Death Foretold... that's exactly what this book is about: A death foretold. You may be asking yourselves, wtf is that? Well, that was pretty much my reaction in 2013 when I read this for the first time.
Santiago Nasar is found dead....more

usually when i read garcia marquez i love it at first but then it just keeps circling and circling and eventually my brain shuts down and i pass out, but this time it just kept building and building and by the time i hit the end i thought i was going to explode. just one of the tensest and most mysterious books i've ever read in my life. also it was nice because i always read about marquez talking about how much he loves kafka but then i never see it in his books; this time around it was all rig...more

Jan 13, 2010Traveller rated it it was amazing

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Brilliantly told....
I've just re-read this novel; and I've just remembered why it stuck with me after reading it the first time.
I have since learned that the novella is based on a true story, in which the author himself had been involved. This caused the book to carry even more of a disturbing impact for me.
The novel (novella? it's rather short) starts off in detective/journalistic investigative fashion; at first it seems casual and desultory; the narrator seems to be merely reporting. However,...more

Dec 10, 2017Fran rated it it was amazing

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Death will catch us all, grab our bones and run, but few as unaware as those whose deaths have been foretold.
Everybody knew this will be his last day on earth. Everybody knew why they will kill him. Everybody but him. This is one of my favorite short novels from Garcia Marquez. From the title to the last word we know what will happen and why but the surprise is hidden in the was it right?
If you want a book that will leave a endurable mark in your subconscious ramblings (you know, those little t...more

Oct 05, 2016Cheryl rated it really liked it

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Recommends it for: mystery lovers seeking a short thrill

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I should start by confessing how Márquez's words have often flirted with me and I've fallen for his elongated, somewhat eccentric, prose style. In The Autumn of the Patriarch he took me on a satisfying and bewildering journey that secretly made me question his sanity. So I've come to expect that part-dizzying, part-dazzling style that makes this short work feel different, almost as if it was written by another Márquez, maybe a more controlled Márquez, but certainly not the same one who wrote One...more

Sep 11, 2013Julie rated it really liked it

It's possible that Gabriel Garcia Marquez's grocery list is better written than most of what stands on your bookshelves.
What Marquez does feels less like writing and more like the conveyance of a mood or a dream that imprints itself on paper as you read, then disappears behind you.
It's hard to find fault with him as a writer.
This is a particularly fascinating 'skinny read,' a little book with a lot of bang for your buck.
It is highly literary and also incredibly thought-provoking. I highly recom...more

This is such a well-crafted book in its structure and language that I may have to re-read it now that I just finished it.

The parody of life.

'They've killed me, Wene child,' he said.
Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez is an interesting and a strange 'true story', narrated and reconstructed by the author himself, of a murder that took place 27 years earlier in a Caribbean town where the author grew up.
This novel is a detailed account of the entire incident, with data collected and accumulated from various sources. The author also gives the reader a feel of living in a Caribbean town.

Apr 01, 2010TK421 rated it really liked it

What would you do if everyone around you knew you were going to be killed but were doing nothing to stop this? For me, more than paranoia and terror would rake my mind. This is the premise of CHRONICLE OF A DEATH FORETOLD. The whole village knows that Santiago Naser is going to die by the hands of his wife's brothers. Their reason for killing him is simple: they believe he is to blame for their sister being returned after her marriage to a wealthy foreigner because she is not a virgin. As the st...more

3 stars
This has to be one of my top 5 favourite required reads for the Hell Grounds that is school.
I was surprised at how much I enjoyed this read!
The combination of the thrilling murderous plot and how religion weaved into it really fascinated me. Even though the book is only 122 pages and the story takes place in a matter of hours, it both felt like the story lasted over a longer period of time as well as actually only feeling like it occurred for an hour.
The writing style and narrator made...more

Nov 08, 2008Charity rated it it was amazing

Recommends it for: People who want to read a fabulous story

Based on an actual incident, this novel dramatizes the story of a young bride whose husband returns her after their wedding night because she's not a virgin. Subsequently, her brothers set out to murder the man whom she names as the 'perpetrator.' A former resident who has returned to reconstruct these events narrates the story, which is as much about the townspeople as about the main characters.
I find it to be a true testament to García Márquez's storytelling abilities that even though I knew t...more

Initially i gave this book 4 stars, but last night it got me thinking and a book that makes me think and prevents me to sleep deserves a 5 star in my book.
This is the story of Santiago Nasar's murder. This literally is a story of an Appointment with Death. Despite almost everybody in the village knowing that Santiago is going to be killed, whether through ignorance, superstition, lies or malice (lets face it Santiago isn't a very nice guy) his death could not be prevented.

Sep 28, 2014Richard rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: cool-titles, globe-trotting, classics, small-town-secrets, regular-old-fiction, novellas, 2014-reads

In a tiny, coastal Latin American town, Angela Vicario and Bayardo San Román get married and have the biggest party the town had seen! But soon after, Bayardo returns his new wife to her shocked family after he realizes that her virginity has been spoiled. In an effort to restore her honor, her twin brothers murder her alleged deflowerer in cold blood (obviously not a spoiler), but not before announcing their intentions for all to hear.

'All right, girl,' he told her, trembling with rage, 'te

...more

Jun 27, 2015Ritwik added it · review of another edition

There had never been a death more foretold
Based on a true incident Gabo was involved in, simply put - the story is about how a bride is returned after her wedding night after her husband realizes that she is not a virgin. On being questioned the bride names the person responsible and her brothers set out to find and eventually murder the person in question. The back-cover reads the summary as mentioned above. How far can a writer take it from here?
It is astonishing to see the various angles th...more

Jun 11, 2018Jaanaki rated it really liked it

Shelves: anaquarianslibrary, fantasy, fiction, magical-realism

Writing and story telling are two different talents and although many authors write,very few are master storytellers.A master story teller will fill the stage with his presence and will keep his audience hooked from beginning to the end ,so much so that, they will not have the slightest inclination to leave their seats until they reach the end of the tale and get to know what happens to the various characters in the story.Gabo proves he is the 'Master ' ,with this small but brilliantly written n...more

Jan 30, 2018Eliza Rapsodia rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Recommended to Eliza by: No one, I'm Colombian

4.5
REVIEW IN ENGLISH
I an reading Gabo's work little by little. Since he died in 2014, we will not have more books. So I picked one of his non-fiction works. This book is a tale of an event that happened in Colombia and the author wrote a story with an unique narrative style and its own structure. It's the tale of Santiago Nasar and why everyone in town knew he was going to die.
This book is a chronicle, with data and concrete and true facts (inspired by a real event happened in 1951) and tells...more

Nov 12, 2013João Barradas rated it really liked it · review of another edition

'He was healthier than the rest of us, but when you listened with the stethoscope you could hear the tears bubbling inside his heart.'

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