INTERPRETATION OF PERSONAL TRAGEDY IN THE WORKS OF GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ

This article examines the multifaceted interpretation of personal tragedy in the literary works of Gabriel García Márquez, focusing on how the writer integrates psychological, socio-historical, mythopoetic, and metaphysical dimensions into his portrayal of human catastrophe. Drawing on major texts—including One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, No One Writes to the Colonel, Of Love and Other Demons, and several short stories—the study reveals how García Márquez transforms individual sorrow into a universal cultural, existential, and historical discourse. His magical-realist poetics serves as an instrument that merges private suffering with collective trauma, memory, cyclical time, and the violent dynamics of Latin American history.