Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez
1968
Short Story
Fiction
"The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World" is told from the perspective of an unknown third-person narrator.
"The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World" is told in the past tense.
"The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World" (El ahogado más hermoso del mundo) refers to the main character of the story, an unknown man who washes ashore in a seaside town. Nothing is known about his past or his death, but the women of the town clean him up only to realize how unusually tall, well built, and handsome he is.
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