Plural Views in Carlos Saura’s and Gabriel García Márquez’s El coronel no tiene quien le escriba

Abstract

This essay analyzes the saurian reading of El coronel no tiene quien le escriba, by Gabriel García Márquez, as a result of a film-loving writer and a reading filmmaker. The cinematic novel by the winner Nobel Prize staged by the aragonese filmmaker at the Infanta Isabel’s theater reveals a shares fascination with screen, literature, painting or music, and allows us to trace new scenic solutions for García Marquez´s poetic prose, his figures of time alien to reality, his talent for inserting the fantastic into everyday life, his overflowing visuality, the symbolic relevance of objects or the incarnation of characters that form part of the universal horizon of readers and viewers.