La crónica de viaje en Gabriel García Márquez. En torno a De viaje por Europa del Este y las tensiones entre la mirada del periodista y la del escritor socialista

Abstract

Gabriel García Márquez’s chronicles, collected in the book De viaje por Europa del Este (2015), are intersected by the gaze of the traveler whose testimony reflects not only the observed but also, and more closely, the observer. In this sense, they can be thought as similar to “travel journals”, texts in which the term travel means, following Andrea Pagni, “both experience and writing” (1992: 263). As a “witness”, García Márquez ́s chronicles exhibit a manifest textual speaker in the form of a first person narrator that sometimes becomes identified with the critical chronicler of the observed reality, and sometimes with the militant writer with socialist ideals. The aim of this research is, firstly, to investigate that double inscription of the first person narrator in the texts in order to identify possible tensions manifested there; secondly, to focus on the chronicle of Hungary published in the 2015 edition in light of the original version of this text, which is more extensive and complex.