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* [[Eternal Recurrence]]: A central theme in a lot of stories is the fact that some things are bound to repeat themselves over and over again.
* [[The Generalissimo]]: An important character is most of his books. Actually, in some of them (''[[The Autumn of the Patriarch]]'', ''The General in his Labyrinth'') he's the main character.
* [[Generation Xerox]]: comes with the recurrence theme.
* [[Historical Domain Character]]: Most of the main characters in ''The General in his Labyrinth'', especially Simón Bolívar.
* [[Historical Fiction Literature]]: Many of his books make implicit or explicit allusions to "La Violencia", a period of civil conflict in Colombia. Similarly, some of the books refer to the Thousand Days War (like ''[[One Hundred Years of Solitude]]'' or ''Memories of My Melancholy Whores''). ''The General in his Labyrinth'' deals with the last days of Bolívar.
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* [[Magic Realism]]: One of the [[Trope Maker|Trope Makers]], definitely [[Trope Codifier]].
* [[Mind Screw]]
* [[Roman à Clef]]: Several of his novels and short stories were inspired by (and often incorpored) several real life events with just some name changes. García Márquez used to be a journalist by trade, so often he got inspiration while investigating for chronicles.
* [[Small Reference Pools]]: When people are asked to name a Latin American writer, García Márquez is one of the few names that come up.
* [[Turn Out Like His Father]]
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