Isabel Alvarez Borland , in her essay " The Task of the Historian in El general en su laberinto " , claim that " ... while El general en su laberinto is in many ways a continuation of García Márquez 's criticism of Latin America 's official history seen in his earlier works , the novel contrast sharply with his previous fictions " . In Chronicle of a Death Foretold , according to Alvarez Borland , the narrator challenge the truth of official language . However , The General in His Labyrinth " differ from these earlier works in employing narrative strategies which seek to answer in a much more overt and didactic fashion questions that the novel pose about history " .