The Columbian novelist and short-story writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez was much impressed by two masterpieces of world literature, such as the story “The Old Man and the Sea” by Ernest Hemingway and the novel “The Plague” by Albert Camus. The author combined the “objective” prose and philosophical symbolism of Hemingway with the existentialistic prose of Camus and created one of his most famous story “No one Writes to the Colonel”. The action of the story took place in Columbia. At that time the situation of violence and terror reigned there because of the desperate fight between numerous political parties. Gabriel Marquez gave the concrete time of the main actions in the story. That was the period from October till December 1956. The writer also mentioned a lot of other dates, such as the year of the main hero’s birth and the time when his son Augustine was born. That chronology was relative to the author. He paid more attention to the so-called general situation of the world instead of concrete historical events. Marquez tried to escape the uncovered violence in the narration, but he described the moral condition of the world captured by violence. Similar motive readers could see in the work of Alber Camus, where people fought against the epidemic of plague (Bacon, 1984). The general image of violence in the world the writer put together from many pictures of everyday life in one provincial town. During the described events the violence hid for a while but didn’t disappear forever. Nothing happened in that town on the one side, but the author made a hint on an open and uncompromising struggle between Life and Death. Every person in the town lived on such a shaky side. The whole story of Garcia Marquez was full of interesting and unique images. The image of death and violence were the main among the others. The death covered Colonel’s house and frightened him with poverty and hunger. According to the writer’s words, the image of the old Colonel appeared when he saw a lonely man sitting in the river port. The figure of that person expressed hopeless expectation and became the realistic character of the narration. On the one hand, the main hero of the story was an old and sick man, but the author depicted him as a still morally strong and wiry person. His wife was also an old and sick woman. Besides nine months ago their son, Augustine was killed for the distribution of the illegal literature during the next flash of violence in the room for the cockfights. The Colonel had been hopelessly waiting for promised pension for long years and had been living without any money. Garcia Marquez avoided psychologism and extremeness of their living conditions. He characterized laconic and exact details of their everyday life instead. For example, the Colonel’s wife poured out the last spoon of coffee into the cup, she put a saucepan with stones on the stove because she didn’t want the neighbors to know about their poverty. When the Colonel’s boots wore out he took the new patent leather shoes out of the chest because he had nothing to wear. The last time he put on those shoes was at the wedding with his wife (McNerney, 2000). Their son was fond of cockfights and he left the fighting cock to the parents. Colon