Chronicle of a death foretold by Gabriel García Márquez

Author:Gabriel García Márquez [Márquez, Gabriel García]
Format: epub
Tags: Criticism, Murder, Revenge, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), General, Literary, Death, Colombia, General & Literary Fiction, Literature - Classics, Fiction, Domestic fiction, Honor
ISBN: 9780345310026
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 1984-02-12T08:00:00+00:00

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THE DAMAGE FROM THE KNIVES WAS only a beginning for the unforgiving autopsy that Father Carmen Amador found himself obliged to perform in Dr. Dionisio Iguarán's absence. "It was as if we killed him all over again after he was dead," the aged priest told me in his retirement at Calafell. "But it was an order from the mayor, and orders from the barbarian, stupid as they might have been, had to be obeyed." It wasn't entirely proper. In the confusion of that absurd Monday, Colonel Aponte had had an urgent telegraphic conversation with the governor of the province, and the latter authorized him to take the preliminary steps while he sent an investigating magistrate. The mayor was a former troop commander with no experience in matters of law, and he was too conceited to ask anyone who knew where he should begin. The first thing that bothered him was the autopsy. Cristo Bedoya, who was a medical student, managed to get out of it because of his intimate friendship with Santiago Nasar. The mayor thought that the body could be kept under refrigeration until Dr. Dionisio Iguarán came back, but he couldn't find a human-sized freezer, and the only one in the market that would serve the purpose was out of order. The body had been exposed to public view in the center of the living room, lying on a narrow iron cot while they were building a rich man's coffin for it. They'd brought in fans from the bedrooms and some neighboring houses, but there were so many people anxious to see it that they had to push back the furniture and take down the bird cages and pots of ferns, and even then the heat was unbearable. In addition, the dogs, aroused by the smell

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