格兰德大妈的葬礼 (1962)

《格兰德大妈的葬礼》（西班牙语：Los funerales de la Mamá Grande ）是由加夫列尔·加西亚·马尔克斯撰写的短篇小说集。

在故事中，一名身份不明的叙述者述说着格兰德大妈的滔天权力，以及她生日派对、丧礼如何极尽奢华，借此讽刺拉丁美洲的腐败政治。

故事以“说书人或狂欢节叫卖者的风格”讲述，且发生在《百年孤独》出现的马康多中。在整篇小说集中，出现过数次与《百年孤独》、《没有人给他写的上校》呼应的句子或剧情。

出版

小说集《格兰德大妈的葬礼》于1962年由韦拉克鲁斯大学出版社首次出版，当中共收录8篇短篇小说。繁体中文版则在2022年正式授权出版。

"Big Mama's Funeral" (Spanish: Los funerales de la Mamá Grande) is a short story by Gabriel García Márquez. In the story, an unidentified narrator tells a mythical account of a historical event summarized on the first page. Through the exaggerated size of Big Mama herself and her extravagant birthday party, the story satirizes corruption in Latin America at all levels of power. The story is told in a "highly oral style of a public storyteller or carnival barker." The story is set in the mythical town of Macondo, the setting of García Márquez's famous novel One Hundred Years of Solitude (Spanish: Cien años de soledad). Big Mama's Funeral is one of only three of the author's short stories set in the town.

Publication history

Big Mama's Funeral was first published in 1962 by Universidad Veracruzana Press in a collection of short stories also entitled Los funerales de la Mamá Grande.. It is the final story in the collection.