Gabriel Garcia Marquez, The Handsomest Drowned Man In The World

Link: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, The Handsomest Drowned Man In The World

• Print: Fiction, Short Story

In Maruqez's short story, village children find the body of a dead man wrapped in sea weed.  The town decides to throw the deceased person a funeral.  In the process, the characters begin to create an identity for the man.