Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
2002
Published:
Golden, CO : Colorado School of Mines
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
Viewed on 29 January, 2008.|Review of: Jerry Hoeg, Science, Technology, and Latin American Narrative in the Twentieth Century and Beyond. Based on his analysis of García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude, and Isabel Allende's The House of the Spirits, Hoeg comes to the conclusion that contemporary Latin American fiction and criticism are characterized by rejecting technology as it is imposed by "foreign domination" and believing that it "leads inevitably to disastrous consequences."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
September, 1997
Published:
Montevideo, Uruguay : Cuadernos de Marcha
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
(131) : 62-64
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Prego Gadea examines a biography about Gabriel García Márquez, El viaje a la semilla, written by Dasso Saldívar and states that it is no surprise that Saldívar began the biography by narrating the trip García Márquez and his mother, Luisa Santiaga Márquez Iguarán, made in 1952 to Aracataca with the purpose of selling the family house, the "House of Spirits," in which García Márquez was born. The biography corrects or rectifies a considerable number of anecdotes, facts, and affirmations relative to the first years of Gabriel García Márquez. Saldívar demonstrates that García Márquez didn't begin writing La hojarasca immediately after his trip to Aracataca in 1952, but rather three years later.
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
2002
Published:
Santiago, Chile : Editorial Universidad Católica
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
147-150
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Foxley analyzes the interpretation and commentary made by nine other writers such as Volkening, Loveluck, and Benedetti, among others. Each of these writers contributes insight to the narrative works of García Márquez.
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
Sep-Oct, 2000
Published:
Columbus, OH : Linworth Pub.
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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71
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"Patricia Beddoe reviews three study guides from the Gale Study Guides to Great Literature: Literary Masters series: "Dashiell Hammett" by Richard Layman, "Gabriel García Márquez" by Joan Mellen, and "Ernest Hemingway" by Michael Reynolds."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
April 8, 2005
Published:
London, UK : Express Newspapers
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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Features; 53
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Ben Fogle lists Gabriel García Márquez's book One Hundred Years of Solitude as one of his six best books. Fogle states that the book is "a complicated tale, like a patchwork, with a zillion characters. It's set in a Colombian town, and the focal point is a Latin American family."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
May 15, 2005
Published:
Tampa, FL : The Tribune Co.
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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Baylife; 8
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Walker reviews Chronicle of a Death Foretold, stating that "this slim volume might be the best entry into Márquez's work. It contains many of the elements that mark so much of his fiction - love, fate, familial ties, dreams, desperation, magic - as well as some of his tightest writing."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
May 21, 2005
Published:
London, UK : Associated Newspapers Ltd.
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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Weekend; 22
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"Sue Macgregor, presenter of the Radio 4 series, A Good Read, tells York Membery about her favourite novels..." Love in The Time Of Cholera is one of them. She states that "the warm slow prose and the magic realism Márquez has made famous, matches the dreamy heat of the South American setting."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
July 24, 2005
Published:
Tampa, FL : The Tribune Co.
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
Baylife; 6
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Walker lists One Hundred Years of Solitude as a book everyone should read. He states that "reading Gabriel García Márquez is akin to sitting around a campfire, listening to a master storyteller, and his prose retains its magic even in translation from the Spanish."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
August 25, 2005
Published:
Australia : West Australian Newspapers Limited
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
Features; 16
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Review of Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude. The review states that the book "transformed world literature when it was published in 1967.
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
August 28, 2005
Published:
Houston, TX : The Houston Chronicle Publishing Company
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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Zest; 15
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Fritz reviews García Márquez's book Memories of My Melancholy Whores. Fritz states that the book "triggers recollections of a lifetime of paid-for sex and ultimately a vision of uncorrupted love."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
September 4, 2005
Published:
Lancaster, PA : Lancaster Newspapers, Inc
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
5
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In this Review of Gabriel García Márquez's Memories of My Melancholy Whores it is stated that the book is about "a 90-year-old man who decides to give himself a night of love."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
September 8, 2005
Published:
McLean, VA : Gannett Company, Inc
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
Life; 6D
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In this review of Gabriel García Márquez's Memories of My Melancholy Whores, Deirdre Donahue explains that "the narrator is expert in the world of love for money but finds that transformation is possible even at the end of life."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
July 15, 2005
Published:
New York, NY : VNU Business Media, Inc
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
73(14) : Fiction: 754
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This review of Memories of My Melancholy Whores states that "There is no indication--unless it is the word "melancholy" in the title--that García Márquez means his tale to be the parody of macho idiocy it appears to be. His hero ends revitalized and radiantly optimistic, while readers are left wondering, "Can he be serious?" What can't be dismissed, however, is García Márquez's gift for the casually adept insight."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
October 15, 2005
Published:
London, UK : Guardian Newspapers Limited
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
Guardian Review Pages; 15
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Ian Watson compares García Márquez's novel Memoria de mis putas tristes with Yasunari Kawabata's House of the Sleeping Beauties, stating that it has "Exactly the same theme of old man and comatose drugged girl(s)."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
October 2, 2005
Published:
Boston, MA : Globe Newspaper Company
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
Books; D7
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Pearlman quotes a review by Stephen McCauley on One Hundred Years of Solitude which states that "after reading this novel there was no forgetting that modern literature is bigger than the English language. Marquez took the top of my head off with the incantational beauty of his imagination, the mythic explication of South American history, the living ghosts and the dead ghosts, the dizzying repetition of names from one generation to the next."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
October 17, 2005
Published:
Las Vegas, NV : DR Partners d/b Las Vegas Review
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
E; 1E
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In this review of Gabriel García Márquez's Memories of My Melancholy Whores White states that the book is about "a 90-year-old man [who] buys sex with a young virgin, triggering memories of past prostitutes he's enjoyed."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
October 24, 2005
Published:
Boston, MA : Boston Herald
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
The Edge; O40
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In this review of Gabriel García Márquez's Memories of My Melancholy Whores Mejer states that "to Call Gabriel García Márquez's latest effort disturbing is an understatement. In Memories of My Melancholy Whores, the Nobel Prize-winner's first work of fiction in a decade, it's not the subject matter that's disturbing, it's the love story."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
October 21, 2005
Published:
London, UK : Associated Newspapers
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
64
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In this review of Gabriel García Márquez's Memories of My Melancholy Whores Eithne Farry states that the novel is "an elegiac fairytale that celebrates old age and the possibilities of rejuvenation."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
October 22, 2005
Published:
London, UK : Times Newspapers Limited
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
Books; 16
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In reviewing Gabriel García Máquez's novel Memories of My Melancholy Whores, Ruth Scurr states that the book "depicts a respected journalist, breaking the rules of a lifetime to fall madly, anarchically, transgressively in love with a 14-year-old girl on the eve of his 90th birthday."