Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities & Sciences
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Library, University of Illinois
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In this interview with Silvia Lemus, Gabriel García Márquez discusses his life and work from a highly personal stand point. This is an episode of the television program "Tratos y retratos."
"This article is about the role of García Márquez and particularly macondismo as an ideology in establishing the canonic validity of vallenato as a folk genre from the Colombian Caribbean. García Márquez's chronicles of the early 1950's are seen as foundational texts on the aesthetics and value of vallenato; texts which influence subsequent writings on the topic. One of the main topics explored is how these texts acquire canonic validity through the success of One Hundred Years of Solitude. It is then that macondismo - the Latin Americanist celebration of magical realism - becomes an interpretive metaphor for Colombia, and vallenato music becomes the sonorous emblem of this metaphor. This occurs through García Márquez's writings, his multiple interventions in Colombian vallenato festivals, and the way vallenato is subsequently taken by a journalistic elite of the country as representing a macondian sonorous paradigm. The article explores how these different elements coalesce in constructing a genealogy of aurality for vallenato, setting the parameters of its interpretive significance through multiple processes of folklorisation of the genre."
"Twenty years after Gabriel García Márquez received the Nobel prize, Ronaldo Menéndez, literary critic and lecturer, offers a de-mythified version of his creative world."
"When reciting the many qualities of Gabriel García Márquez's writing, critics invariably include his humor. Unfortunately, when readers have to read works in translation, they often miss much of the richness of the original work, including the humor. However, Gregory Rabassa's English translation of García Márquez still provides many linguistic pleasures, not the least of which is the discovery of symbolic repetitions and of the multilayered references submerged within an apparently simple sentence-particularly those that begin the different chapters. Indeed, this joy of discovery often erupts in outright guffawing when we realize that the devilish author frequently turns the references ironically on our expectations and even, on occasion, deliberately misleads us."
Copenhagen, Denmark : Institut d'études romanes de l'Université de Copenhague
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Library, University of Illinois
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40(2) : 274-88
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"Este artículo presenta un análisis de 'Relato de un náufrago,' opúsculo híbrido de la primera etapa de la obra de Gabriel García Márquez, en el contexto genérico de la llamada narrativa de naufragios. Partiendo de una observación sobre el renovado interés por la literatura de naufragios, se revisan algunos ejemplos históricos de esta forma textual que hacen eco en la obra. A pesar de la presencia del naufragio como 'tema' en la literatura e historiografía hispanoamericanos, llama al atención la ausencia de un género específico para su representación narrativa, algo que sí se da en la tradición portuguesa. Es la tesis del presente trabajo que 'Relato de un náufrago' representa una reinvención de la narrativa de naufragios para las letras hispanoamericanas, poniéndola a la vez al tanto con el contexto político y literario del siglo XX."
"Presents a contextual analysis of the books 'A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings,' by Gabriel García Márquez and 'The Lesson,' by Toni Cade Bambara. Overview of the story of each book; Subjects discussed in the books; Characters in the books."
This critical essay examines the theme of love in Gabriel García Marquez's work, which the author claims is "depicted as a doom, a demonic possession, a disease that, once contracted, cannot easily be cured."
San Juan, Puero Rico : Universidad de Puerto Rico Faculdad de Humanidades
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Library, University of Illinois
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31(2) : 59
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"George McMurray, in his 1985 article, commented upon the links between the apocalyptic ending of 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' and the epiphany of Borges' 'El Aleph.' In this study I trace the origins of this vision in the work of the Colombian writer. As a young journalist, García Márquez wrote over 800 newspaper columns, several of which demonstrate his fascination for these pinnacle moments of vision or knowledge, a momentary glimpse of all time and space, an instant where the human imagination can capture the meaning of the universe. The novelist has repeatedly pointed to his early journalism as the laboratory for his mature fiction, the site that allowed him the opportunity for literary experimentation. It is my contention that the origins of the last Buendia's epiphany can be glimpsed in several columns which represent a leitmotif in García Márquez's early writing."
Salamanca, Spain : Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos
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Library, University of Illinois
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27(2) : 27-40
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"After locating US writer Jeffrey Eugenides against the background of recent minimalist fiction, this essay evaluates the influence of García Márquez's narratives 'Cien años de soledad' and 'Crónica de una muerte anunciada' on his first novel, 'The Virgin Suicides'. Centered on the novel's magical-realist features, the contrastive analysis contends that 'The Virgin Suicides' revives a distinctive modernist mythical impulse. Based on its literary borrowings, this impulse materializes in the endorsement of ancestral beliefs in a female principle and in the ethical demand to put an end to the gradual annihilation of the planet by post-industrial societies."
"In her article, 'Memory and the Quest for Family History in One Hundred Years of Solitude and Song of Solomon,' Susana Vega-González explores similarities between the novels of García Márquez and Morrison with a special focus on the use of memory and imagination. Based on theoretical models, Vega-González proposes that fictional representations are a means of rewriting history, a particular aspect of literary discourse. The texts under scrutiny constitute true quest stories of characters who search for their family history along their own identity amidst the dangers of capitalism and its excessive desire for progress and class ascent. The break with advocacy of hybridity are some of the features that link Morrison and García Márquez with magical realism, a literary mode that contributes to their rewriting of a history peopled with the ghosts of slavery, colonialism, and imperialism."
"Communities of people have different ways of explaining the world around them and events that occur to them, and these codes for interpreting reality can clash when brought into contact with each other. Latin American writers and scholars have often said that such a clash produces the atmosphere we have come to label magical realist in literature; construing the theory in quite territorial terms, they have claimed that the specific circumstances of Latin America have produced magical realism. In this essay, I explore the use if magical realism in a famous episode from García Márquez's 'Cien años de soledad'. The instance of the insomnia plague has fascinated readers and has attracted various interpretations from academics; these have usually been centered around cultural readings. I explore the passage from three distinct perspectives, cultural, historical and literary. García Márquez's 'Cien años de soledad' is a work rich in historical and literary sources, and in order to help determine the impact of political and cultural happenings upon his work, I have also referred extensively to García Márquez's recently published memoirs, which have enabled me to make reasoned judgments about the different spheres of influence upon García Márquez's work."
"The Western circus tradition provides a particularly relevant framework for representations of animals in magic realist fiction, since magic realism and the circus are both closely related to Bakhtin's idea of the carnivalesque. Conceptualized as 'circensian spaces', the circus' influence on magical realism manifests itself as what Foucault calls 'heterotopias', 'other spaces', which are inherently contradictory, polyphonic, and 'impossible to think'. As the circus traditionally represents, reinforces and at the same time subverts Western conceptualizations of animals, this discussion focuses on the relationship between Linnaean taxonomy and circensian spaces in Peter Carey's 'Illywhacker', Richard Flanagan's 'Gould's Book of Fish', Gabriel García Márquez's 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' and Isabel Allende's 'The House of the Spirits'. This article examines the significance of circensian animal spaces within the Australian and Latin American context, and discusses why 'circensian animals' may be particularly suitable agents in the subversion of Western paradigms."
"Este artículo presenta un análisis de 'Relato de un náufrago', opúsculo híbrido de la primera etapa de la obra de Gabriel García Márquez, en el contexto genérico de la llamada narrativa de naufragios. Partiendo de una observación sobre el renovado interés por la literatura de naufragios, se revisan algunos ejemplos históricos de esta forma textual que hacen eco en la obra. A pesar de la presencia del naufragio como tema en la literatura e historiografía hispanoamericanos, llama la atención la ausencia de un género específico para su representación narrativa, algo que sí se da en la tradición portuguesa. Es la tesis del presente trabajo que 'Relato de un naufrago' representa una reinvención de la narrativa de naufragios para las letras hispanoamericanas, poníendola a la vez al tanto con el contexto político y literario del siglo XX."
"Ahora que el realismo mágico es un capítulo de la historia de la literatura hispanoamericana, 'Cien años de soledad' revela su capacidad inagotada para tolerar y aun proponer nuevas significaciones, y entre ellas merece atención la que cabe relacionar con García Márquez y con su necesidad de dejar testimonio de su infacia, trascurrida en una casa grande y muy triste, con una hermana que comía tierra, una abuela que adivinaba el porvenir, un abuelo que evocaba recuerdos incesantes de una interminable guerra civil y numerosos parientes de nombres iguales que nunca alcanzaron a percibir claramente los límites que seraraban la demencia y la felicidad."
Santiago de Chile, Chile : Editorial Universidad Católica
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Library, University of Illinois
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30 : p66
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"El presente trabajo es parte del Seminario de Graduación del Depto. de Castellano en esta Universidad titulado 'Cien años de soledad, una novela mítica'. El seminario fue dirigido por la Prof. Adriana Valdés y en él participaron las siguientes alumnas: Sara Almarza, Inés Araya, Carmen Foxley, M. Elena Rodríguez, M. Isabel Spoerer, Marta Ulfe y Carmen Avaria."
Canada : Concordia University, Canadian Association for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
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Library, University of Illinois
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31(61) : pp. 236-238
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De Marinis states: "La extraordinaria y onerosa herencia legada por el boom de la literatura latinoamericana acercó como efecto inmediato para autores y críticos, una suerte de desconcierto y una búsqueda de caminos alternativos que permitieran superar tanto los fracasos de aquel movimiento como sus inadecuaciones respecto a los cambios contextuales que advinieron con el ocaso de la modernidad." He concludes "en el acto de la recepción, las clases marginales y periféricas (y sus artistas) procesan la información recibida, la transforman y la devuelven como acto de resistencia que las convierte en sujetos actives, productivos y, por ende, creativos, capaces de articular sus propios gustos y objetos estéticos."
Deborah Cohn examines the interplay of the Cuban Revolution and the promotion and translation of Latin American literature in the United States during the Latin American literature "Boom." She studies the motivations that promoted cross-cultural understanding and describes the success of prominent Latin American authors such as Gabriel García Márquez.
Caleb Bach discusses Gregory Rabassa, a translator of many famous Latin American Works. He talks about the Rabassa's greatest qualities as a veteran translator and the effects of his work in the preservation of writings by many Latin American authors, including Gabriel García Márquez.
Mary Lusky Friedman discusses the Memoirs of Isabel Allende and Alma Guillermoprieto. She compares and contrasts the works of these prominent writers to those of the Boom writers, including Gabriel García Márquez.
This article lists the Neustadt Laureates from 1970 through 2006. It also lists the Puterbaugh Fellows from 1968 through 2005. Gabriel García Márquez was a 1972 Laureate.
Washington, D.C. : Organisation of American States
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Library, University of Illinois
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57(1) : p. 64
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This article presents a short story written by Gabriel García Márquez about man named Abel Quezada. The story focuses on the issues dealing with Quezada's life and his personal troublings.
María José Navia discusses the work by Margarita Saona. Saona describes and analyzes the relationship between the novel and the nation in contemporary Latin American literature. Navia notes that the first chapters of Saona's work are dedicated to the writings of Gabriel García Márquez, Isabel Allende, and José Donoso.
Washington, D.C. : Organisation of American States
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Library, University of Illinois
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59(3) : pp. 78-95
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Contreras discusses Mario Vargas Llosa's studies on Gabriel García Márquez and his work "Cien años de soledad." Contreras talks about the controversy as to why some of Llosa's work had not been translated and the issues with its publication.
Washington, D.C. : Organization of American States
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Library, University of Illinois
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63(4) : pp. 656-658
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Rosario studies and discusses the cultural and social implications of Ignacio López-Calvo's "God and Trujillo". Along with other analysis of the work, Rosario focuses on Calvo's view of Gabriel García Márquez, among others, during the dictatorship of Trujillo.
Arlington, VA : Society for Latin American Anthropology
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Library, University of Illinois
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12(1) : pp. 254-255
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Aizenberg studies the Latin American narrative and issues reflecting the "boom" era, but focuses on Latin American writings before the 1960's phenomena.
"This article, inspired by a TV interview with the Nobel Prize-winner Gabriel García Márquez, revises the ways that the fiction in One Hundred Years of Solitude has been accepted as history. In particular, it raises some questions about how literary critics and historians have accepted as history Garci?a Ma?rquez's rendition of the events during the strike that took place in Colombia in 1928. It examines the repressive nature of the Colombian regime and of the strike itself; it also examines the idea that following the strike there was a sort of 'conspiracy of silence' to erase the truth from the nation's history."
"Analyzes how the articulation of memory accomplishes a therapeutic purpose in Gabriel Garcia Marquez's novel `Chronicle of a Death Foretold.' Translation of the memory of events into language to reach the soothing consciousness of meaning; Plot; Central dramatic triad and characterology; Psychological structure of the novel; Sociocultural structure; Theory of seduction."-- EBSCOhost
London, UK : Routledge for the Institute of Psycho-Analysis
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Library, University of Illinois
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79(2) : 317-331
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"In this paper the author discusses the situation of children handed over to grandparents or to other relatives of the natural parents to be brought up. She notes that such children are faced with the riddle of their own filiation and postulates that this scenario often conceals an oedipal fantasy to the effect that the child concerned is the fruit of an incestuous relationship between a grandparent and the relevant parent. Following the example of Freud, the author adduces literary models for illustration. As with the Oedipus of Sophocles, the author shows how efforts to thwart the workings of fate actually bring about the consummation of the tragedy in the form of incest, which is favoured by the confused oedipal configuration in the families of handed-over children. The main argument is based on the characters and situations of two novels by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, written at different times in his life. With reference to the psychoanalytic literature on artistic creativity, the author shows the importance of the mid-life crisis in determining how Garcia Marquez came to terms with the fact of having himself been entrusted to grandparents as a child and how this situation is reflected in the works concerned." -- Scopus
"This Special Issue contains 12 papers on the theme of literature which holds representations beyond geographical reality, invoking instead states of mind, moods, and milieus, which widen our understanding of the world. Specifically, the following themes are addressed: the influence of Anglo-American humanist geography and the lesser known directions pursued by European humanist geographers; the experiences of a mental institution as portrayed by Janet Frame's Faces in the water; understandings of landscape and inscape from the writings of the eastern Ontario region; recent developments in literary resource interpretation; writing and iconography in romantic voyaging in the Alps; Dicken's representation of London and its reliance on verisimilitude; the texts of Beatrix Potter as a form of cultural communication; the works of Ippolito Nievo and what they reveal about the Friulian landscape; tellurism, mythical realism and magical realism in the works of South Americal writers Jose M. Arguedas, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Pablo Neruda; and poets and narrators and their local perceptions of Mendoza, Argentina." -- Scopus
"In the present review of twelve pieces produced by distinguished 20th century Latin American writers--Jorge Luis Borges from Argentina, Jorge Amado and Joa?o Ubaldo Ribeiro from Brazil, Jose? Donoso from Chile, Gabriel Garci?a Ma?rquez from Colombia, Alejo Carpentier from Cuba, Miguel Angel Asturias from Guatemala, Octavio Paz from Mexico, Mario Vargas Llosa from Peru?, Horacio Quiroga and Mario Benedetti from Uruguay and Arturo Uslar-Pietri from Venezuela--paragraphs or parts of paragraphs in which parasitological or entomological situations of the most varied hues are referred to or described, have been extracted in a selective form. Sometimes in these descriptions appear, local or regional expressions, without ignoring colorful folklore representations. For a easier interpretation these or part of these paragraph sentences have been arranged by thematic similarities. In a varied and kaleidoscopic vision, it will be possible to find protozoiasis (malaria, Chagas disease, leishmaniasis, amebiasis), helminthiases (ascariasis, hydatidosis, trichinosis, schistosomiasis, cysticercosis, onchocerciasis), parasitoses produced by arthropods (pediculosis, scabies, tungiasis, myiasis), passing progressively to hemaphagous arthropods (mosquitoes, gnats, horse flies, bedbugs, ticks), venomous arthropods (Latrodectus spiders, scorpions, wasps, bees), mechanical vectors (flies and cockroaches), culminating with a conjunction of bucolic arthropods (butterflies, crickets, grasshoppers cicadas, ants, centipedes, beetles, glow worms, dragonflies)." --Scopus
Emil Volek discusses José Marti's work and the evolution of Mocondo and magical realism in Latin American literature. The article evaluates, among other aspects, the influence of authors such as Gabriel García Márquez on the establishment of magical realism.
"Using the analysis applied to a short fragment of the novel One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez as a basis, the author proposes to expose the elements which constitute the process of paternalization (knowledge, bisexuality, narcissism, Œdipal complex, identifications, parricide, the earth, woman and negative work). In conclusion, the author proposes several hypotheses concerning possible extensions of the concept of filiation."--Scopus
Juan Ángel Juristo examines the role of women in Spanish fiction. he discusses the increasing role women play in the politics, social dynamics, and economy of Spain. Juristo comments on the style of various authors and analyzes differences between Gabriel García Márquez and other prominent writers.
Ortega discusses the history of Cervantes' Don Quixote and the role of alternative spaces and locations in relation to the novel. He comments on Gabriel García Márquez' view that the climate in the valley is fresh and that people do not sleep in Cartagena to see the dawn of the Caribbean world.
New York, NY : Casa de las Españas, Columbia University
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Library, University of Illinois
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58(1/2) : pp. 175-184
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Earle studies the role of memory and imagination in Latin American nations. He focuses many influential and cultural factors including the works of Gabriel García Márquez.
Opinion. Comments on the ways that the fiction in the book, `One Hundred Years of Solitude,' was accepted as history, with reference to a television interview with Nobel Prize-winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Reaction of literary critics and historians to Garcia Marquez's rendition of the events during the strike that took place in Colombia during 1928; Examination of the repressive nature of the Colombian regime and of the strike.
London, UK : Routledge for the Institute of Psycho-Analysis
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Library, University of Illinois
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79(2) : pp. 317-331
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In this paper the author discusses the situation of children handed over to grandparents or to other relatives of the natural parents to be brought up. She notes that such children are faced with the riddle of their own filiation and postulates that this scenario often conceals an oedipal fantasy to the effect that the child concerned is the fruit of an incestuous relationship between a grandparent and the relevant parent. Following the example of Freud, the author adduces literary models for illustration. As with the Oedipus of Sophocles, the author shows how efforts to thwart the workings of fate actually bring about the consummation of the tragedy in the form of incest, which is favoured by the confused oedipal configuration in the families of handed-over children. The main argument is based on the characters and situations of two novels by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, written at different times in his life. With reference to the psychoanalytic literature on artistic creativity, the author shows the importance of the mid-life crisis in determining how Garcia Marquez came to terms with the fact of having himself been entrusted to grandparents as a child and how this situation is reflected in the works concerned.-- Scopus
"The article presents several lists of books related to Spanish literature featured in the publications of John Butt including "Writers and Politics in Modern Spain," by Hodder and Stoughton, 'Miguel de Unamuno: San Miguel Bueno, 'San Manuel Bueno, mártir,' by Grant and Cutler, 'A New Reference Grammar of Modern Spanish,' by Edward Arnold", and 'The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor,' by Gabriel García Márquez.
Méndez analyzes the works of Gabriel García Márquez, Jorge Luis Borges, and Pablo Neruda. He takes into account their impact as writers and their role in creating works of historical significance.
Hart studies and analyzes Simón Bolívar. He studies his impact in Latin America and provides biographical and informational data. The end of the article details information on Bolívar's portrayal in García Márquez' work El general en su laberinto.
Philip Swanson analyzes Isabel Allende and her work, "La Casa de los Espíritus." In the article, Swanson notes the similarities between Allende's work and the work of García Márquez, particularly in "Cien Años de Soledad." Swanson states that the work of Allende is considered an "invert" of García Márquez rather than an "imitation" of it.
Chile : Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Instituto de Letras
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Library, University of Illinois
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36 : pp. 177-186
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Macarena Areco writes about the rise of the hybrid novel in Spain and Latin America. In the article, Ignacio Padilla speaks about the Boom writers, including García Márquez.
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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"Mestizo y seminal como el continente en que rebrota, el género de la crónica, tan cultivado en tiempos de la conquista y de la colonia en América para dar noticia al emperador Carlos I de España y V de Alemania de los asuntos de Indias, no sólo es relevante por su carácter histórico y su relación con otros géneros, sino tambiénpor ser, como señala Gabriel García Márquez en su discurso de recepción del premio Nobel de literatura, el germen de nuestras novelas de hoy, es decir el origen de lo que sería la principal tendencia artística de las letras hispanoamericanas del siglo XX; el realismo mágico o lo [real maravilloso], como lo denominó su creador, Alejo Carpentier, algunas décadas atrás, término que, a pesar de haberse aplicado indiscriminadamente como rótulo a demasiados novelistas hispanoamericanos, acabó por convertirse en el sello personal del Nobel colombiano."
"Las novelas de Gabriel García Márquez y Augusto Roa Bastos abarcan temas grandes y variados. Con fecuencia sus obras se enfrentan con historias tanto nacionales como continentales, historias latinoamericanas que residen entre el mito y el archivo. 'El otoño del patriarca' (1975) y 'Yo el Supremo' (1974) son novelas del dictador que juegan con el concepto del poder, tratando el poder desde el lado de la impotencia o, másprecisamente, desde el lado de la muerte. En realidad, la muestra de la doble cara del poder es solamente uno de los desdoblamientos que sirve de base estructural y temática de estas dos obras en las que cada elemento se transforma en su contrario: la vida en la muerte, la muerte en la vida, el gran ditador en ser miserable y solitario, y el héroe en traidor. Cada una de las dos obras ocupa el lugar entre dos muertes, y es interesante notar también que cada dictador tiene su doble--o dobles. Es como si el dictador tuviera dos cuerpos, uno natural y sujeto a las leyes de la biología y otro de otra sustancia, quizás sublime o sobrenatural, que perduraría en el tiempo, o por lo menos dentro de los límites de la narrativa. En este ensayo propongo explorar a fondo las relaciones entre el cuerpo y el poder del dictador." (From article)
"'All the great writers have good eyes' is a sentence by V. Nabokov that is very suitable for G.G. Márquez and his One Hundred Years of Solitude. The novel, published in 1967, introduces among many others, the character of little Rebeca, whose frailness and greenish skin revealed hunger 'that was older than she was'. The girl, because of a pica syndrome, only liked to eat earth and the cake of whitewash. But her fate appears to be determined by the lethal insomnia plague, whose most fearsome part was not the impossibility of sleeping but its inexorable evolution toward a loss of memory in which the sick person 'sinks into a kind of idiocy that had no past'. Rebeca's lethal insomnia looks quite similar to the 'peculiar, fatal disorder of sleep' originally described by Lugaresi et al. in 1986. One Hundred Years of Solitude shows that G.G. Márquez was gifted not only with good eyes, but has the seductive power of changing reality into fantasy, while transforming his visions into reality."-- Scopus
Detwiler says of Crónica de una muerte anunciada, "a short narrative by perhaps the most famous of the Boom writers, García Márquez's 1981 work dismantles the steps involved in producing an eyewitness account of a past event...[and] equates the production of eyewitness testimony with the act of making fiction."
This entire issue is dedicated to Gabriel García Márquez. It includes articles from the following authors: Teodosio Fernández, Lorena E. Roses, Ana Gallego Cuñas, Alvaro Salvador, Julio Ortega, José Miguel Oviedo, Anibal González, Jacques Joset, José Manuel Camacho, Angel Esteban and Juan Gustavo Cobo Borda. All of the articles are included in this bibliography.
"El canon literario por su parte ha venido idealizando la mujer en su imaginidad pureza mientras que al mismo tiempo la margina y demoniza cuando no se subordina a la autoridad masculina. No ocurre esto, sin embargo, en 'Cien años de soledad. A pesar de que la crítica ha venido afirmando que se puede clasificar a los personajes femeninos según la dictomía citada, un relectura a la luz tanto de la teología feminista como de la mitología potencia una interpretación mucho más matizada."
Madrid, Spain : Insula, Librería, Ediciones y Publicaciones, S.A.
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Library, University of Illinois
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62(723) : pp. 9-12
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"Uno de los rasgos más característicos de la obra de Gabriel García Márquez - y de los menos comentados - es su extraño recorrido inverso. Normalmente, la trayectoria de un escritor suele ir desde un periodo inicial, de aprendizaje e imitación en el que se practican ciertos modelos literarios establecidos y se homenajea a los grandes maestros de la tradición, hasta un momento de madurez en el que, poco a poco, y habitualmente con lentitud y dudas, el autor contruye su propio mundo. En el caso del maestro colombiano, como digo, el recorrido ha sido el inverso, García Márquez inicia su trayectoria literaria con la obsesión por la construcción de un mundo, el mundo mítico de Macondo, y a esa obsesión están dedicadas sus primeras obras, 'La Hojarasca,' 'El coronel no tiene quien le escriba,' 'Los funerales de la Mamá Grande,' 'La mala Hora'..., hasta conseguir recrearlo en su obra maestra 'Cien años de soledad.'"
Madrid, Spain : Insula, Librería, Ediciones y Publicaciones, S.A.
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Library, University of Illinois
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62(723) : pp. 12-15
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"En 'Del amor y otros demonios' (1994) Gabriel García Márquez parecía confiar en lectores a los que la lectura pone al borde del llanto. Se diría que así como anteriormente había escrito novelas que lo esperaban casi todo de la risa, de la crítica o de la nostalgia, ésta nos convoca a llorar."
Madrid, Spain : Insula, Librería, Ediciones y Publicaciones, S.A.
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Library, University of Illinois
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62(723) : pp. 15-16
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"Que un hombre conciba el plan de reglarse a sí mismo, en la víspera de sus noventa años, una noche de placer con una joven virgen suena como algo del todo imposible, aparte de ridículo, pero en las manos de Gabriel García Márquez esa delirante fantasía erotica se convierte, no solo en una situación plausible, sino también en una historia conmovedora y llena de una delicada y profunda sabiduría humana."
Madrid, Spain : Insula, Librería, Ediciones y Publicaciones, S.A.
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Library, University of Illinois
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62(723) : pp. 16-18
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"A lo largo de la extensa obra de Gabriel García Márquez el tema amoroso se has hecho presente de manera cada vez más significativa, desde los [amores difíciles] que, entre muchos otros cataclismos, sufren los personajes de 'Cien años de soledad' (1967), hasta los no menos arduos amores que ocupan el centro de las tres novelas que el maestro colombiano ha dedicado con exclusividad a ese tema: 'Cronica de una muerte anunciada' (1981), 'El amor en los tiempos de cholera' (1985), y 'Del amor y otros demonios' (1994)."
Madrid, Spain : Insula, Librería, Ediciones y Publicaciones, S.A.
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62(723) : pp. 19-21
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"Consabido es que el Tiempo constituye el núcleo duro de la semántica de as ficciones de Gabriel García Márquez, incluso en las memorias del protagonista nonagenario de su última novela publicada. Tan evidentes son dos temáticas que se injertan en el tronco de Cronos y cruzan casi todos los textos del imaginación del Nobel colombiano: los amores difíciles y el Poder."
Madrid, Spain : Insula, Librería, Ediciones y Publicaciones, S.A.
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62(723) : pp. 21-24
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"García Márquez descubrió a Sófocles en los años cincuenta, de la mano de sus compañeros cartageneros y muy especialmented de su amigo Gustavo Ibarra Merlano -Catedrático de griego-, quien fue uno de los primeros en leer el manuscrito de 'La hojarasca' y en señalar su extraordinario parecido con la 'Antígona' de Sófocles."
Madrid, Spain : Insula, Librería, Ediciones y Publicaciones, S.A.
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62(723) : pp. 24-26
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"Lo que más eleva al hombre por encima de cualquier ser es la capacidad para traer constantemente al recuerdo, y hacer vivas, las experiencias pasadas, o bien inventarlas. García Márquez es consciente de ello y por eso decidió, desde muy joven, dedicar su vida a contar."
Madrid, Spain : Insula, Librería, Ediciones y Publicaciones, S.A.
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62(723) : pp. 27
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"No se necesita ver y palpar una tierra para amarla sin remedio. Basta con imaginarla, a través de la buena literatura que García Márquez leyó antes de llegar a ella. La imaginación literaria parece llegar antes que los propios pies."
Jeffrey Lamb analyzes and reviews Humberto Crosthwaite's novel, El Gran Pretender. In the critical essay he discusses how Crosthwaite is "the product of a university education that presented canonical writers from both Mexico and Latin America, including those of the "Boom": Julio Cortazar, Mario Vargas Llosa, Carlos Fuentes, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez."
United States : The Catholic University of America
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61(3) : pp. 526-527
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Gerald Martin reviews "The Twentieth-Century Spanish American Novel" by Raymond Leslie Williams. He critiques the work of Williams, who has written works on authors such as Gabriel García Márquez and Carlos Fuentes. The novel, written by Williams, studies the entirety of twentieth century Spanish American Fiction from 1900-1999.
Carrillo analyzes the essay "Latitud de la flor" by Hispanic writer, philosopher, and politician Mario Prayeras. Carrillo also notes that much of his writing resonates voices of other writers, including Gabriel García Márquez, who worked in virgin territories that opposed the modern logic of the state.
Madrid, Spain : Insula, Librería, Ediciones y Publicaciones, S.A
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62(723) : pp. 28
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"'Soy escritor por timidez. Mi verdadera vocación es la del prestidigitador, pero me ofusco tanto tratando de hacer un truco, que he tenido que refugiarme en la soledad de la literatura.' Estas palabras perpetadas por el Nobel como un acto mismo de timidez, revelan muchas mentiras."
This two volume set is composed of notes and papers presented in a conference on literature held from August 4-8, 1997 in Quito. This article talks about three of Gabriel García Márquez's books. The author states "'El otoño del patriarca,' 'El Coronel no tiene quien le escriba,' y 'El General en su laberinto,' son muestra de una literatura que alegoriza esos 'dias de gloria' y sintetiza todo un proceso histórico a partir del relato ficcional que encubre una 'verdadera historia no contada' - sustituida como el continente mismo- y abre la posibilidad desde la perspectiva del ocaso del poder para una interpretación no explícita."
**This article also appears in the journal "Cuadernos Americanos: Nueva Epoca (2000). Vol. 2 Issue: 104 Pages: 43-56.
This article discusses Gabriel García Márquez's interpretation of reality. The author states "Gabriel García Márquez's fiction transports readers to a world between reality and imagination."
"After some theorical remarks, the brending of popular motifs with the themes of a pseudo-bourgeois model about 'l'amour fou,' is analysed from various points of view (characters, time and structure, themes and places). Then, the article deals with the interweaving of new elements into the narrative (cinema, songs from hispanic countriesradio-brodcasted novels, surrealistic heroes), through the mixing of blood and genres, might not the author be claiming thereby his own half-cast nature in a novel about crossbreeding?" -- English translation of French abstract found in the article.
Eusebio V.; Castellanos Llácer Llorca and Esther Enjuto
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Secondary source, Critical Article
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(2002)
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Mexico : Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
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93 : pp. 151-161
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"En inglés, el término 'historia' se desdobla en dos vocablos, 'history' y 'story', que en castellano pueden identificarse como 'la' historia y 'una' historia, respectivamente. Gabriel García Márquez, periodista y novelista, asegura la originalidad de cada una de sus obras, historias en las que, partiendo de imágenes reales, ni una sola línea es inventada."
Costa Rica : Instituto de Estudios Latinoamericanos (IDELA)
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13-14 : pp. 102-109
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The author discusses the ways in which the traditional Latin American novel is a baroque text. He uses García Márquez's Cien años de soledad as an example.
United States : Latin American Literary Review Press
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Library, University of Illinois
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30(60) : pp. 128-146
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"Jorgensen explores the points of convergence and conflict in the criticism and, in concluding, to signal aspects of Isabel Allende's work, including some problematical qualities, that have not received due attention. She starts by accounting for the large body of criticism on 'La casa de los espiritus,' 'De amor y de sombra' and 'Eva Luna,' and the well-known debate over 'Casa,' and then she focuses on the relatively few articles that treat Allende's books published form 1991 to 2001." Also focuses on the debate between her works and the works of García Márquez, specifically 'La Casa de los espiritus,' and 'Cien años de soledad' respectively
Rincón discusses the way time is represented in literature. He writes, "la Alegoría del Tiempo es, de esa manera, un señor muy viejo con unas alas enormes," referring to García Márquez's short story Un señor muy viejo con unas alas enormes.
Reviews "Invisible Work. Borges and Translation," by Efrain Kristal. Discusses the various tasks involved in the translation process, including literal translations of author's works such as Huidobro or García Márquez.
Spain : Publicacions de la Universitat de Barcelona
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Library, University of Illinois
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54 : pp. 125-144
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This article discusses the problems that contemporary families face in the city of Medellín from an urban prospect. Briefly mentions the ability for people such as Alonso Zalazar, Victor Gaviria, and Gabriel García Márquez to categorize urban environments.
Spain : Centro de Estudios y Cooperación para América Latina
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Library, University of Illinois
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5(12) : pp. 45-47
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Presents an essay on the topic of contemporary literary debate and criticism. Mentions various authors, including Gabriel García Márquez, Cervantes, and Vargas Llosa
Abstract: "Marting discusses Gabriel García Márquez's 'La increíble historia,' a story about an 11-year-old prostitute named Erendira, and also discusses prostitution in several other texts by Márquez. Overlooked in comparison to genre and myth, the story's social themes and realist strategies reveal Marquez' early interest in criticizing aspects of women's oppression."
Swanson reviews 'Temptation of the Word: The Novels of Mario Vargas LLosa' by Efrain Kristal, 'Carlos Fuentes, Mexico, and Modernity' by Maarten van Delden, 'Julio Cortazar: New Readings' edited by Carlos J. Alonso, and 'Manuel Puig Ante La Critica: Bibliografia Analitica Y Comentada' by Guadalupe Marti-Pena.
In his review, he mentions that García Márquez's "boom" novel Cien años de soledad is different from the works of other major boom writers such as Vargas Llosa, Fuentes, and Cortazar.
Discusses the authors Manuel Puig and Alberto Fuguet. Focuses on the modern response in Latin American writing to the "boom" writers of the previous generation. Analyzes the rejection of Magical Realism and the ideas of McOndo by the new generation of Latin American writers.
United States : Latin American Literary Review Press
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28(56) : pp. 27-42
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"Laraway suggests that the asbence of any fail-safe criterion to mark the ontological distinction between fiction and reality lies not only at the heart of the problem of philosophical skepticism but much of Jorge Luis Borges' fictional praxis as well." Mentions other Latin American authors including García Márquez.
United States : Latin American Literary Review Press
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Library, University of Illinois
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28(56) : pp. 43-60
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"Amago examines Isabel Allende's ''Cuentos de Eva Luna'' in terms of Allende's evolving narrative strategies, much different here than in previous literary outings such as ''La casa de los espiritus.'' By examining the collection in terms of its intertextual elements, meta-narratorial conceits, well-structured narrative frame and non-specific geographical and historical context, Amago hopes to explain how the text functions not just as a collection of stories but as a unified fictive unit." Mentions García Márquez throughout the article.
Craig analyzes the claims set for in three of Raymond L. Williams' books, that "the pre-Boom and Boom were essentially modernist but that by the mid-1970s, as the Boom started to wane, Latin American narrative began to shift toward postmodernism." Craig selects a few of García Márquez's works and explains how they are either modernist or postmodernist.
Analyzes and discusses "La fiesta del chivo," by Mario Vargas Llosa. Compares his depiction of dictatorship to those of other Latin American authors including Carpentier, Roa Bastos and García Márquez.