1. Gabriel García Márquez, El olor de la guayaba (Buenos Aires: Sudamericana, 1982), pp. 67–69.
2. Gerald Martin, Gabriel García Márquez: A Life (London: Bloomsbury, 2009), p. 292.
3. Regina Janes, One Hundred Years of Solitude: Modes of Reading (Boston: Twayne, 1991), p. 98.
4. Harold Bloom, ‘Introduction’, Gabriel García Márquez: Modern Critical Views (New York: Chelsea House, 1988), p. 1.
5. Roberto González Echevarría, Myth and Archive: A Theory of Latin American Narrative (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990), p. 13.