Big Mama's Funeral Gabriel García Márquez's story, Big Mama's Funeral, is a story full of fantastic scenes and events in line with Don Quixote and Candide. The introductory paragraphs of Big Mama's Funeral and Candide sound so similar in voice that the two authors could be mistaken for the same. In Candide there are a series of episodes that are very far from reality and yet perfectly explainable. The story of the fate of Doctor Pangloss, the death and resurrection of Cunegonde and her Jesuit brother, as well as the story of the old woman with one buttock are as farcical as the episodes of Big Mama's Funeral. In Don Quixote we find a man, mostly mediocre, who wishes to become a knight errant. In his quest, a series of events occur that are so ridiculous that they are nothing short of tabloid-style sensationalism or drug-induced hallucinations. In Big Mama's Funeral, we are told the story of Big Mama's death and funeral. In the events of his life and in the days leading up to and before his death we find truly fantastic events and stories from the past. In the annals of his past we find that in his family "uncles married nieces' daughters, cousins ​​married aunts, and brothers married sisters-in-law, until an intricate web of consanguinity was formed." Here García Márquez takes the simple act of incestuous relationships, which exist, and elevates them to an extreme level. This is the writing style of García Márquez and the two writers mentioned above, Cervantes and Voltaire.