In Mario Vargas Llosa�s opinion, two of the most lasting obsessions of García Márquez�s literary world, were the theme of plague, and the one of violence, that together form a sort of �cataclysmic vision� of history, whose literary sources were Daniel Defoe�s, A journal of the plague year, and Sophocles�, Oedipus Rex. We mention in this article the presence of those themes in García Márquez�s filmic work, beginning with the screenplays of two films: El año de la peste and Edipo Alcalde, adaptations of the cited works of Defoe and Sophocles. Afterwards we present two unpublished film treatments, Para Elisa and Dios y yo. The first is about war in Colombia, and presents an explicit reference to the �Bogotazo� (9th of April of 1948), while the second presents the theme of Latin American dictator, that García Márquez later focused in his novel El otoño del patriarca.
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