The flaw with the logic of the title "Chronicle of a Death Foretold" is that it creates a sort of contradiction of tenses. While "chronicle" implys a list of events in the past, foretold implys that the death has not yet happened. However, the story follows with the title, regardless of logical error. The reason for this is that the author places the events in the story as they are happening in the present. Thus, although the story did in fact happen 27 years earlier, the death in the novel's time line, has yet to happen.
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