Blacamán the Good, Vendor of Miracles (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Gabriel GarcíaMárquez
- First Published: 1972
- Type of Plot: Picaresque
- Time of Work: The mid-twentieth century
- Setting: The Caribbean coast of Colombia
- Principal Characters: Blacamán the Bad, Blacamán the Good
- Genres: Short fiction, Picaresque fiction, Fantasy
- Subjects: Suffering, Fraud, Impostors or imposture
- Locales: Colombia
The Story
Blacamán the Good relates how he came to know and work for Blacamán the Bad, an itinerant confidence man who, dressed in flamboyant and preposterous garb, would sell all manner of things to the unsuspecting villagers in the north Colombian province of La Guajira. In the first scene the narrator describes in grotesque detail how Blacamán the Bad feigns a poisonous snakebite in order to sell a supposedly effective antidote. The curative illusion is so convincing that, in addition to selling out his entire stock to the naïve townspeople, Blacamán the Bad manages to...
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See Also:
Gabriel García Márquez (Cyclopedia of World Authors)Gabriel García Márquez (Short Fiction)Gabriel García Márquez (Dictionary of World Biography)Gabriel García Márquez (Censorship)Gabriel García Márquez (Long Fiction)Theory of Short Fiction (Topical Overview--Short Fiction)
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