What is the author's style in Collected Stories by Gabriel Garcia Marquez?

The point of view in most of the stories in this collection is obscure—at once inside and outside the narrative. When he uses the voice of the objective narrator, the author never identifies himself but speaks as if he has a kind of infused enlightenment of not only the physical world but of the spirit world which is superimposed. The detached, anonymous narrative voice enables the author to assume any point of view within the story, including the subjective point of view of each of the characters in the living, physical world as well as their souls and the strange, sometimes hideous spiritual deformities they carry like a curse. The experience for the reader is not unlike that of a child at summer camp, gathered around a blazing campfire with other children listening to adults tell hair-raising ghost stories. Improbability and disbelief become suspended because of the powerful story-telling abilities of the speaker. When Garcia Marquez wants to be more directly involved in a story, he typically assumes the voice of an unidentified, nebulous "we." Using this collective pronoun rather than the more typical first person "i" enables the author to move about rather freely within the story and to leave it to the reader's imagination to fill in specifics of time, place and other characters. In this sense, Garcia Marquez' stories are radically innovative because they require the reader to define his or her own point of view to make sense of the free-floating narrative, to re-read portions of the story for affirmation or refutation of that point of view, and to internalize the story so as to fully assimilate it.