Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
August 22, 2005
Published:
New York, NY : Reed Business Information
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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252(33) : p. 34
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About Memoirs of My Melancholy Whores, the reviews writes that "the narrator's wit and charm, however, are not enough to counterbalance the monotony of his aimlessness. Though enough grace notes are struck to produce echoes of eloquence, this flatness keeps the memories as melancholy as the women themselves."
Mario Montes writes a letter to the editor asking if they could publish more interviews with famous Latin American writers, including Gabriel García Márquez.
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
2004-2005
Published:
Kansas City, MO : University of Missouri-Kansas City
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
71(1)
Notes:
Fay reviews From the Land of Green Ghosts: A Burmese Odyssey, by Pascal Khoo Thwe and Living to Tell the Tale, by Gabriel García Márquez. Of Márquez's memoir she writes, "In reading Living to Tell the Tale, one never gets the sense that what is being documented is necessarily 'real.' Márquez was once quoted as having said, 'If you say there are elephants flying in the sky, people are not going to believe you. But if you say that there are four hundred and twenty-five elephants in the sky, people will believe you.'"
Reviews of Chronology of a violent death, choreographed by Stela Korljan, based on Gabriel García Márquez's Chronicle of a death foretold, performed in Gera, and a piece based on the novel Effie Briest, choreographed by Irene Schneider in Magdeburg.
New York, NY : 2003 PEN Tribute to Gabriel García Márquez
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
In a speech delivered at the 2003 PEN Tribute to Gabriel García Márquez, Edith Grossman said, "To recreate significance for a new set of readers, translators must make the effort to enter the mind of the first author through the gateway of the text - to see the world through another person's eyes and translate the linguistic perception of that world into another language. The better the original writing, the more exciting and challenging the process is. You can be sure that the attempt to enter the mind of García Márquez is as exciting and challenging as the work of a translator gets."
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
Aug 2003
Published:
Universidad de Salamanca
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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34
Notes:
Viewed on 11 February, 2008. Brief mention of García Márquez's article, "Con las Malvinas o sin ellas" (24 April, 1982), in which he discusses "los desaparecidos" and "las Madres de la Plaza de Mayo."
Rodero states: "The fantastic represents a constant in Latin American narrative of the 20th Century. This article analyzes the presence and evolution of this narrative mode in Latin American literature through the study of four short stories, each representing a different literary trend: the ‘modernismo’ of marvelous tone (‘El ángel caído,’ Amado Nervo), the demystifying magical realism (‘Un señor muy viejo con unas alas enormes,’ Gabriel García Márquez), the transgressive post-boom (‘El ángel caído,’ Cristina Peri Rossi), and the feminist post-modernism (‘Moraleja para ángeles,’ Sonia González Valdenegro). The main theories on the fantastic are reviewed and used in the particular analysis of the short stories: from the classic distinction established by Todorov between the marvelous, the uncanny, and the fantastic to the most recent critical studies (Lucie Armitt, Remo Ceserani, etc.), including other decisive and essential contributions such as those by Rosemary Jackson and Irène Bessière."
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