RE: Chronicle of a Death Foretold

A chronicle is a telling of events or a story in a chronological order. Chronological means in order of time. In the first few pages of the novel it is discovered that a man has returned to a town where a murder had happened 27 years in the past. This word is already in defiance of itself by starting 27 years after the matter as apposed to from the beginning. It seems as though it would be best to start at the end rather than the start, though confusing, this backwards method can help to unravel mysteries hidden to a chronological eye. Marquez did this to imbue the mysterious attributes of the story into the title and confuse the reader as much as the protagonist.