IOSR Journal of Humanities And Social Science (IOSR-JHSS) Volume 26, Issue 3, Series 6 (March. 2021) 38-40 e-ISSN: 2279-0837, p-ISSN: 2279-0845. www.iosrjournals.org DOI: 10.9790/0837-2603063840 www.iosrjournals.org 37 |Page The Portrayal of Diseases in the Select Works of Gabriel Garcia Marquez 1 Sreejith Ramachandran Ph.D Research Scholar, Department of English, Nehru Arts and Science College (Autonomous), T.M Palayam, Coimbatore-105. 2 Dr.K.Rajkumar Assistant Professor, Department of English, Nehru Arts and Science College (Autonomous), T.M Palayam, Coimbatore-105. ABSTRACT Gabriel Garcia Marquez is one of the greatest novelist to ever live. He was born in Aracataca, Columbia, on 6 th March 1927. In the year 1982, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Both long and short fictions of Garcia Marquez were received well by the lay readers for its relatability while not failing to awe the most acclaimed critics. A disease is a particular abnormal condition that negatively affects the structure or function of all or part of an organism, and that is not due to any immediate external injury. Diseases are often known to be medical conditions that are associated with specific symptoms and signs. A disease may be caused by external factors such as pathogens or by internal dysfunctions. For example, internal dysfunctions of the immune system can produce a variety of different diseases, including various forms of immunodeficiency, hypersensitivity, allergies and autoimmune disorders. At a time when the world is hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic, this paper tries analyse the novels Love in the Time of Cholera and Of Love and Other Demons, with the aim of uncovering the different ways characters act and react at the thought of disease. KEYWORDS: Disease, Epidemic, Panic, Relief --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date of Submission: 08-03-2021 Date of Acceptance: 22-03-2021 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I. INTRODUCTION On 6 th March, 1927, the small Colombian village of Aracataca witnessed the birth of one of the greatest novelist and writer of the 20 th century, Gabriel Garcia Marquez. In the year 1982, he was granted the Nobel Prize for Literature, largely for his best loved work, One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967). He was the fourth Latin American to be so regarded. He was preceded great Chilean authors Gabriela Mistral (1945), Pablo Neruda (1971) and Guatemalan author Miguel Angel Asturias (1967). Alongside Jorge Luis Borges, Garcia Marquez is the most popular Latin American author to have walked the earth. Notwithstanding his excellent way to deal with the novel, he was a brilliant writer of short stories and an acclaimed columnist. Both long and short fictions of Garcia Marquez were received well by the lay readers for its relatability while not failing to awe the most acclaimed critics. A disease is a particular abnormal condition that negatively affects the structure or function of all or part of an organism, and that is not due to any immediate external injury. Diseases are often known to be medical conditions that are associated with specific symptoms and signs. A disease may be caused by external factors such as pathogens or by internal dysfunctions. For example, internal dysfunctions of the immune system can produce a variety of different diseases, including various forms of immunodeficiency, hypersensitivity, allergies and autoimmune disorders. At a time when the world is hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic, this paper tries analyse the novels Love in the Time of Cholera and Of Love and Other Demons, with the aim of uncovering the different ways characters act and react at the thought of disease.