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In Evil Hour
First edition (Spanish)
Author	Gabriel García Márquez
Original title	La mala hora
Translator	Gregory Rabassa
Language	Spanish
Publisher	Premio Literario Esso (Spain) Harper & Row (US)
Publication date	1962
Publication place	Colombia
Published in English	1979
Media type	Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages	183
ISBN	978-0-06-011414-5
OCLC	5633093
Dewey Decimal	863 19
LC Class	PQ8180.17.A73 M313 1979

In Evil Hour (Spanish: La mala hora) is a novel by Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez, first published (in an edition disowned by the author^[1]) in 1962.

Written while García Márquez lived in Paris, the story was originally entitled Este pueblo de mierda (This Town of Shit or This Shitty Town). Rewritten, it won a literary prize in Colombia.

Some of the same characters and situations found in La mala hora later re-appear in Cien años de soledad.

Plot

In Evil Hour takes place in a nameless Colombian village. Someone has been placing satirical pasquinades about the town, outlining the locals' shameful secrets. Some dismiss these as common gossip. However, when a man kills his wife's supposed lover after reading of her infidelity, the mayor decides that action is called for. He declares martial law and sends soldiers (who are actually armed thugs) to patrol the streets. He also uses the 'state of unrest' as an excuse to crack down on his political enemies.

References

^ "The Nobel Prize in Literature 1982".

Dabove, Juan Pablo. “Los pasquines como alegoría de la disolución de la ciudadanía en La mala hora, de Gabriel García Márquez”. Revista de crítica literaria latinoamericana [1] XXVI.52: 269-287.
Lydia Hazera, "Estructura y tematica de La mala hora de Gabriel Garcia Marquez." Thesaurus: Boletin del Instituto Caro y Cuervo 28 (1973): 471-81.
Kirsner, Robert (1966). "Four Colombian Novels of "La Violencia"". Hispania. 49 (1). American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese: 70–4. doi:10.2307/337071. ISSN 0018-2133. JSTOR 337071.

External links

In Evil Hour Archived 2007-12-15 at the Wayback Machine at "The Modern Word"'s García Márquez website.

v t e Works by Gabriel García Márquez
Novels	In Evil Hour One Hundred Years of Solitude The Autumn of the Patriarch Chronicle of a Death Foretold Love in the Time of Cholera The General in His Labyrinth Of Love and Other Demons Memories of My Melancholy Whores Until August
Short stories	"Leaf Storm" "No One Writes to the Colonel" "Big Mama's Funeral" "The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Eréndira and Her Heartless Grandmother" "Strange Pilgrims" "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings"
Non-fiction	The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor Clandestine in Chile News of a Kidnapping Living to Tell the Tale
Other works	El año de la peste The Solitude of Latin America
Miscellaneous	Macondo

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