Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
November, 2002
Published:
Champaign-Urbana, IL
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
0(9) : 15
Notes:
Vivir para contarla, or Living to Tell the Tale, is the first of three volumes of Gabriel García Márquez's autobiography and memoirs. More than a million copies have been published in Latin America and Spain, and at the end of the year it will be published in English, German, and Italian. This article provides basic information of Vivir para contarla and gives background information about Gabriel García Márquez.
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
February, 1996
Published:
Bogotá, Colombia
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
2-3
Notes:
Merengue: Ya te vas Sierva María/Te vas pa" tierra lejana/ Te vas morenita mía/Sin saber como me dejas|Paseo: De Puerto Antioquia pa" arriba hasta Yarumal/cuando salió Germán Serna en correduría/apenas que recordaba a Sierva María/me daban aquellas ganas de regresar.
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
October, 2002
Published:
Bogotá, Colombia : El Tiempo
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
Viewed on January 24, 2008.||The newspapers of the time announced that the first Colombian to speak to Gabriel García Márquez was the president at the time, Belisario Betancur on the morning of the twenty first of October, 1982. The tale says that it was García Márquez who congratulated the president.
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
May, 2003
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
Viewed on 24 January, 2008.||The woman who inspired García Márquez's Angela Vicaro's character in Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Margarita Chica Salas, died of a heart attack at the age of 78 in Sucre, Colombia.
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
April, 2003
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
Viewed on 24 January, 2008.||Fidel Castro has been losing the intellectuals who stood behind him as moral support. Such people are Carlos Fuentes and Eduardo Galeano, who condemn the Cuban leader, although he's an old friend. García Márquez stands by Castro's side and by the Cuban revolution.
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
2001
Published:
Colombia : Terra
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
Sección Opinión
Notes:
No longer available.||An opinion column about García Márquez and whether his book Vivir para contarla is an autobiography, his memoirs, or a new novel. The author claims that it is much more than that, that it is the historic retelling of an exceptional witness.
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
October, 2002
Published:
Bogotá, Colombia : El Tiempo
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
Available with subscription.|Gossaín begins by making an analogy to a story of an indigenous nomad who was traipsing across the jungles of the Guaviare, in Colombia, barefoot. Then he proceeds to talk about the use of language and imagination in the works of Gabriel García Márquez. Later in the article, Gossaín proceeds to take quotes from García Márquez's Living to Tell the Tale and analyzes the choice of words and diction.
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
October, 2002
Published:
Bogotá, Colombia : El Tiempo
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
Available with subscription.||This is an editorial essay which provides some information about Gabriel García Márquez's memoirs, Vivir para contarla and includes some details provided in the book. It also states how not only is Gabriel García Márquez making his family proud, but he is also the pride of Colombia, of those who speak his same language, of those who also share the same kind of job. Vivir para contarla is not only the life of Gabriel García Márquez, but also the story, an allegory of the Colombia full of violence, magic, solitude, austerity, horror, creative spirit, and ghosts.
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
September, 2002
Published:
Madrid, Spain : Diario El País
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
Cultura
Notes:
The author mentions a brief synopsis of some anecdotes of Gabriel García Márquez as a child, as told in Vivir para contarla. Also, the author talks about this set of memoirs, the years that have progressed as a brief chronology, and quotations from family members.
Luis Soria Romero, Fernando Rayo Tierno, and Gala Blasco Aparicio
Format:
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
2002
Published:
Pamplona, Spain : Cénlit
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
166
Notes:
This article is dedicated to Pablo Neruda, who in turn dedicated a poem to Gabriel García Márquez, because Neruda belived that García Márquez was one of the best-standing novelists.
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
2003
Published:
Jackson, MS : University Press of Mississippi
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
50-67
Notes:
"In 1997, when the University of Mississippi Libraries put together A Faulkner 100: The Centennial Exhibition, the University archivist invited Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez to contribute a piece. The reflections of this author who, in the archivist's words, "is indelibly associated with the number one hundred," were, appropriately, the final item in the exhibition of one hundred items of Faulkneriana."
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
unknown
Published:
Barranquilla, Colombia : Universidad del Atlántico
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
1(4)
Notes:
Viewed on 24 January, 2008.||Only in the last decades of the past century have Europe and the United States begun to notice Latin American literature, by reading it through the works of Borges and García Márquez. In literature only with García Márquez, the US and Europe noticed that in Latin America there was something to read, even to imitate. Almost all of the tales in "Veinticinco cuentos Barranquilleros" unites the city of Barranquilla and its surroundings. They are not stories of authors from Barranquilla, but stories of authors who reside there, or at one point resided there. However García Márquez is not included among them. Maybe it is because he never wrote a story with Barranquilla as the background.
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
2002
Published:
Columbia, MO : University of Missouri Press
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
5
Notes:
"Many novels from the 1970s and 1980s demonstrate an awareness of this through intertextuality with the chronicles of conquest and colonization: Mexican Carlos Fuentes's Terra Nostra (1975); Colombian Gabriel García Márquez's El otoño del patriarca (1975), published in translation as The Autumn of the Patriarch; Cuban Alejo Carpentier's El arpa y la sombra (1979), published in translation as The Harp and the Shadow; Colombian Albalucía Ángel's Las andariegas (The wandering women, 1983); Argentine Griselda Gambaro's Lo impenetrable (1984); and Mexican Margo Glantz's Síndrome de naufragios (Shipwreck syndrome, 1984) do not represent linear historical narratives, nor do they deal exclusively with the conquest, but they do draw heavily upon the colonial chronicles in the formation of innovative narratives that transcend particular chronological periods."
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
February, 2004
Published:
La Paz, Bolivia : El Diario
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
The promotion of the character who inspired El coronel no tiene quien le escriba of the 1982 Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez was not granted by a Colombian court, who denied a judicial action interposed for that purpose, the press in Bogotá announced. Nicolás Márquez Mejía, maternal grandfather of the writer, and who inspired this novel, waited for more than fifteen years for a letter that confirmed his military pension, but now he will continue without the official payment and without promotion.
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
June 7, 2000
Published:
Los Angeles, CA : La Opinión Digital
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
Viewed on 24 January, 2008.|Mexican ventriloquist, Johnny Welch, states that he was the author of the poem that has circulated as a farewell poem written by García Márquez, who was ill at the time. Such poem was denounced as apocryphal and García Márquez declared that the only thing that worries him is that his readership may think that he would write such a thing.
Philip Weinstein, Duvall, John N., Ann J. Abadie, and eds
Format:
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
2002
Published:
Jackson, MS : University Press of Mississippi
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
39-41, 192, 195
Notes:
"How could the same characterizations have a purchase on textual worlds as different as Barthelme's parodic games, Italo Calvino's self-generating narratives, Gabriel García Márquez's magic realism, and Toni Morrison's brooding reframing of American history? In what follows, the postmodernist generalizations I shall offer refer mainly to the brilliant, brittle American fictions of the "60s and "70s."
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
October, 2002
Published:
Madrid, Spain : El País
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
Viewed on 24 January, 2008.||"La vida no es la que uno vivió, sino la que recuerda y cómo la recuerda para contarla" (Life is not what one lived, but how one remembers, and how one tells the tale). This is how Gabriel García Márquez begins the first volume of his memoirs, Vivir para contarla, whose world premiere is the 9th of October in Barcelona, Bogotá, Buenos Aires, and Mexico City. Meanwhile, Alvaro Mutis, friend of the Colombian Nobel, and one of the few people that has read the manuscript, has no doubt in his mind that he has "read a classic."
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
September, 2002
Published:
La Paz, Bolivia : El Diario
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
Sección Cultural
Notes:
The American filmmaker, Francis Ford Coppola, readily admitted that he would like to make a film about the Liberator, Simón Bolívar. And for that, it could be based on a novel by the Colombian author, Gabriel García Márquez, particularly The General in his Labyrinth, with the help of the author himself.
Cindy Forster, Steve Striffler, Mark Moberg, and eds
Format:
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
2003
Published:
Durham, NC : Duke University Press
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
191-228
Notes:
Forster examines the rural labor history of the revolutionary period in Tiquisate, a township where the Pacific coast plantations of the United Fruit Company sprang up in the late 1930s, and a comparison of this area to García Márquez's legendary Macondo.
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
January, 2004
Published:
Columbia, MO : Ciberayllu
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
Viewed on 24 January, 2008.|Hood recollects that in 1986 when he began writing his doctoral dissertation about the narrative work of Gabriel García Márquez, he traveled to Colombia to experience first hand the land that had given birth to García Márquez and his work.
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
February, 2004
Published:
La Paz, Bolivia
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
Sección Cultural
Notes:
Four citizens of Colombia have asked by means of judicial action that the man who inspired Gabriel García Márquez's No One Writes to the Colonel, Nicolás Márquez Mejía, maternal grandfather of Gabriel García Márquez, be promoted from rank of colonel to general.
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
July-September, 2003
Published:
World Literature Today
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
23-27
Notes:
"The two most successful novelists in the history of Colombian literature, both in terms of critical acclaim and in terms of prizes won, are two old friends, Álvaro Mutis and Gabriel García Márquez, who have known each other for more than half a century."
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
2001
Published:
Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
"The Ends of Literature analyzes the part played by literature within contemporary Latin American thought and politics, above all, the politics of neoliberalism. The "why?" of contemporary Latin American literature is the book's over-arching concern. Its wide range includes close readings of the prose of Cortázar, Carpentier, Paz, Valenzuela, Piglia, and Las Casas, of the relationship of the "Boom" movement and its aftermath, of testimonial narrative, and of contemporary Chilean and Chicano film. The work also investigates in detail various theoretical projects as they intersect with and emerge from Latin American scholarship: cultural studies, deconstruction, psychoanalysis, and postcolonial studies." This book focuses on the era of the Boom, where García Márquez and Julio Cortázar are prominent.
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
August, 2003
Published:
México DF, México : El Universal
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
Reports that the translation in Portuguese of Vivir para contarla, the first volume of the memoirs of the Colombian Nobel laureate, Gabriel García Márquez, will arrive in Brazilian bookstores by early September, 2003.
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
July, 2003
Published:
México DF, México : La Jornada
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
Sección Cultura
Notes:
With 2,000 books, mostly novels, some donated by the Cultural Economic Fund, the first Latin American library in Canada opened in Quebec about a month ago. It was baptized with the name of the Colombian Nobel prize winner, Gabriel García Márquez.
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
July-September, 2002
Published:
Barranquilla, Colombia : La Casa de Asterion
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
3(10)
Notes:
Viewed 24 January, 2008.|In a conversation of paradoxical permanence with the last foreign member of the Barranquilla group, Jacques Gilard, the narrator Marvel Moreno affirms: In Barranquilla everything disappears. The humidity and the termites eat the books, objects, and furniture. The houses are abandoned or collapse by themselves. There is no sense of continuity of the type that emanates from European cities, no trace of the men who worked to create the world into which we were born.
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
September, 2002
Published:
Madrid, Spain : El País
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
A jury integrated by Eduardo Mendoza, Félix de Azúa, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Luis Goytisolo, Jorge Volpi, and Fernando Savater among other authors and experts, gave out the Second Bartolomé March Prize to the best book of literary criticism of the year, La verdad de las mentiras, by Mario Vargas Llosa. ||Another book by Vargas Llosa that is very important in literary criticism is Gabriel García Márquez: Historia de un deicidio (1971). When asked if he would allow for a reedition of this book, Vargas Llosa responded "Maybe in the future. Why not? The problem is that I need to revise and rewrite almost the whole thing, just like I did with La verdad de las mentiras. Since I wrote it, García Márquez has published other important works."
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
March, 2001
Published:
Madrid, Spain : El País
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
There are 24,650 Colombians without a permit for residence living in Spain; without papers, the number triplicates. The eminent demand to have a visa to enter Spain makes the wound deeper. Seven world renown Colombian authors are at the front of acting against the law that requires every Colombian to have a visa to enter Spain. García Márquez says that asking for a visa when entering Spain would be like asking for a visa to enter their own mother's house.
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
October, 2002
Published:
Madrid, Spain : El País
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
Viewed on 24 January, 2008.||Berenice Martínez, a seventy-five-year-old woman and ex girlfriend of the Colombian Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez, has told that when they met fifty-six years ago, they got along well. The two met in 1946 when the author was given a scholarship and studied in El Colegio Nacional de Zipaquirá. She also mentioned that she can't wait to read the first volume of García Márquez's memoirs.
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
October, 2002
Published:
La Paz, Bolivia : El Diario
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
Cultural
Notes:
Vivir para contarla, the first volume of Gabriel García Márquez's memoirs will simultaneously go on sale in Spain and Latin America, with an initial expectancy of one thousand copies. The official presentation of "Gabriel García Márquez's memoirs will take place in Barcelona, Bogotá, Buenos Aires, and Mexico City. In La Paz, the novel will be presented in an act that will take place in the auditorium of the Colombian Embassy.
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
May, 2004
Published:
London, UK : Guardian Newspapers Limited
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
Viewed on 24 January, 2008.||"Mexican opposition politicians are appealing to Latin America's best known writer, Gabriel García Márquez, to mediate in the diplomatic crisis that has taken their country's traditionally good relations with Cuba to the brink of collapse."
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
2002
Published:
Madrid, Spain : Espasa Calpe
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
416
Notes:
Ángel Esteban in collaboration with Raúl Cremades, just published a book that brings together their investigations about sixteen well-known writers of the twentieth century, specifically about their everyday work in the literary creation.
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
August, 1984
Published:
New York, NY : Kirkus Reviews
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
52(15) : 718
Notes:
Announcing the publication of the above work's translation by Rabassa and Bernstein, this article does a brief preview on its contents. Stating that most of the stories are assessed as brilliant, a few are found to be "strange and fragmentary."
Carol Channing, Faye, Jonathan Kellerman, and Scott Turow
Format:
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
March, 2003
Published:
Boston, MA : Writer
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
116(3) : 10-11
Notes:
This article presents updates on some writers, as of March 2003. Provides background on Vivir para contarla, an autobiography of Gabriel García Márquez; the number of years it took Carol Channing to write her autobiography, Just Lucky I Guess; Details of the married life of Jonathan and Faye Kellerman; and the focus of the book, Reversible Errors by Scott Turow.
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
January, 2003
Published:
México DF, México
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
Laporte mentions that the new book by the Chilean author, Alberto Fuguet, with the tentative title Las películas de mi vida, is judged by the critics as a "rotten product of globalization." For many Latin American authors who consider writing as a medium to speak about nationalism, postcolonialism, and history, the irreverence that Fuguet shows toward his land of origin with his tone and the scenes he uses, is a betrayal. Of him it is said that he sold out to American culture and that he is a rotten product of globalization.
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
2003
Published:
Valencia, Spain : Quaderns Digitals
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
This article mentions details of Gabriel García Márquez's memoirs, beginning with the initial scene of García Márquez going to Aracataca with his mother to sell the house of his grandparents where he was born. Memoirs and autobiographies have this common zone in the memory which allows us to forget, rewrite, and invent. In the case of García Márquez, the richness of his life has been reflected in the worlds he creates in his novels. It's the gaze of the Colombian writer toward his life, toward the people related to him, that appears in his autobiography and delights the reader with how his stories and novels occur. He also does self-analysis in his book.
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
2003
Published:
Valencia, Spain : Quaderns Digitals
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
On November 5, 2003, El Centro Americano PEN and Alfred A. Knopf will present Gabriel García Márquez with a literary tribute. The participants include the following authors: Paul Auster, Salman Rushdie, Jon Lee Anderson, Edwidge Danticat, Francisco Goldman, William Kennedy, José Manuel Prieto, Rose Styron, the translator Edith Grossman, and Jaime Abello, director of the Fundación Nuevo Periodismo Iberoamericano, which was founded by García Márquez.
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
December, 2003
Published:
Manchester, England : Guardian Newspapers Limited
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
Viewed on 24 January, 2008.||These are letters to the editor which mention the new idea to put a cinema in Cuba, in which Gabriel García Márquez is taking part.
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
November, 2003
Published:
Manchester, England : The Guardian Newspaper Limited
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
Viewed on 24 January, 2008.||"The idea for the film school occurred to García 17 years ago. As he saw it, what the continent desperately needed was a "factory of creative energy" where talented people from all over the world would feed off each other. Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez has a house in Havana, and when García turned up to suggest the idea, Castro happened to be there. That same evening, the plan was agreed. I wondered how a novelist and an ex-guerrilla leader came to get so excited about building a film school. "I think they are both frustrated film-makers," grins García."
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
May, 2003
Published:
Manchester, England : Guardian Newspapers Limited
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
Viewed on 24 January, 2008.||A poll for top 100 books made by the BBC attracted 140,000 votes. "The list was dominated by 71 books dramatised for film or television, and by 61 either written or set in Britain - though there were a few first published in foreign languages: Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment, two works by Gabriel García Márquez, and The Alchemist, by Paul Coelho, written in Portuguese." Love in the Time of Cholera and One Hundred Years of Solitude were the novels by García Márquez mentioned.
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
November, 2003
Published:
Manchester, England : Guardian Newspapers Limited
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
Viewed on 24 January, 2008.|"Juli Zeh's award-winning debut has earned her comparisons to everyone from Brett Easton Ellis to Michel Houellebecq in her native Germany and, in a single, breathless rave, Gabriel García Márquez, Raymond Carver, and Zadie Smith."
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
November, 2003
Published:
Manchester, England : Guardian Newspapers Limited
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
Viewed on 24 January, 2008.|"Two familiar figures in the novels of Colombian national treasure Gabriel García Márquez are the police chief and the mayor. And it has been a busy time for the real-life version of the characters in Colombia. Colombia's chief of police, General Teodoro Campo, has just resigned along with four other senior officers after revelations that they had been using an account meant for payments to informants to fund three years of lavish dinner parties, whiskey, and expensive chocolates. Echoes of García Márquez are everywhere in Cali. In one of his earlier books, An Evil Hour, someone keeps leaving notes bearing malicious gossip outside the doors of the inhabitants of a Colombian town. Though the book was published in 1968, the wicked habit its author described is still alive and well."
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
2001
Published:
Durham, NC : Duke University Press
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
2(4) : 116-127
Notes:
Viewed on 24 January, 2008.||This is an extensive conversation between Harry Morales and Gregory Rabassa where they discuss Rabassa's work as translator to many important Latin American authors such as Julio Cortázar and Gabriel García Márquez. ||Rabassa states, "Gabriel García Márquez, had complete faith in what I was doing and let me go my way. García Márquez ended up saying that he liked the English version of One Hundred Years of Solitude better than his Spanish original. He was probably just being gracious, but it was pleasing to hear in any case."
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
2002
Published:
Jackson, MS : University Press of Mississippi
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
39-41
Notes:
"Glissant goes on to identify a series of writers whose work responds to Faulknerian poetics, including Flannery O"Conner, Alejo Carpentier, William Styron, Gabriel García Márquez, and Toni Morrison."
John Barth, Duvall, John N., Ann J. Abadie, and eds
Format:
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
2002
Published:
Jackson, MS : University Press of Mississippi
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
192-195
Notes:
"But this oedipal chafing passed, and while it has been long now since I've actually reread "My Faulkner," his luster as a navigation star was considerably brightened for me some years ago by Gabriel García Márquez's remark in an interview, after acknowledging Hemingway and Faulkner as his masters, that Faulkner is "actually, you know, a Caribbean writer." He didn't elaborate that aperçu, as I recall, but I found it charming to imagine that by transposing the greatest of our Southern writers just a few degrees in latitude farther south, he becomes one of the wellsprings of Magic Realism."
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
2003
Published:
Boston, MA : The Christian Science Publishing Society
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
14
Notes:
"Márquez's latest book, first published in Spanish last year, is an international bestseller. According to Publishers Weekly, it has broken all sales records throughout the Spanish-speaking world." -Carduff
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
July, 2004
Published:
Miami, FL : La Razón, Inc
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
"Many foreigners only know a thing or two about Colombia: the country that produces cocaine and coffee. The country in which a civil strife exists. This is what is read and heard in the media day to day, but Colombia is a complex and amazing country that many times is perceived with stereotypes and prejudice." With this the author continues to describe the good things that are never really mentioned about Colombia, amongst which he mentions the literature and Gabriel García Márquez.