Odette Arzú quotes Gabriel García Márquez in her autobiography. She states "Les amenazo, como dice el fabuloso Pemio Nobel colombiano Gabriel García Márquez: 'Dios mío, si yo tuviera un trozo de vida... No dejaría pasar un sólo dia sin decirle a la gente que quiero, que la quiero. Convencería a cada mujer u hombre que son mis favoritos y viviría enamorado del amor.' Por ello, si obtengo esa porción deseada de vida saldrán varios libros mas."
México DF, México : Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Coordinación de Difusión Cultural, Dirección de Literatura
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Library, University of Illinois
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This work is a type of analysis that is traditionally known as a themeology, in other words, it talks about the interrelationships between the literary works of this kind. The author begins classifying the novels in the following categories: (a) "Enfoques," which is more or less the perspective through which the flow of information is regulated. (b) "Testigos," as the name says it. the witness of the novel is the same imaginary narrator, who at the same time, imposes his perspective. (c) "Intimidades," novels in which the author looks behind the characters and relevant historic situations, he expresses that the reader is who solicits that intimate look. (d) "Posmodernidad," where the new historic novel coincides with the postmodernism. (e) "Irreverencia," Robert Graves was the first that included this characteristic in the historic novels, by taking history precisely as a sketch made by historians and completed by the novelists. (f) "Depuración," by the interpretation of the author, is an inherent process to the historic novel, for which in Anglosaxon literature, there has been a distinction between romance and novel. (g) "Pronósticos," where it says that literary criticism should also be prospective, lastly (h) "Diferencias," where the author exposes his theoric differences with Seymour Menton.
The book begins with a short biography of Gabriel García Márquez's life and discusses his contributions to literature, including literary techniques such as magical realism. It also provides literary analysis for five short stories and "One Hundred Years of Solitude," "Chronicle of a Death Foretold," and "Love in the Time of Cholera."
Herausgegeben von Ottmar Ette and Martin Franzbach
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Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2001
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Frankfurt, Germany : Vervuert
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Library, University of Illinois
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239, 284, 430, 600
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This work contains fundamental information for geography and town development, politics and society, economics and culture of today's Cuba. It treats numerous aspects apart from the current economic crisis and the relationship to Europe and the USA: tourism, housing and sexual politics, the myth of the revolution and the role of the political opposition, language, literature, film, music, painting and philosophy. The mixture of background information and Cuban history and culture, from the 20th century and articles to the direct present, makes this an equally useful manual today for specialists and aficionados alike.
Secondary source, Reviews of Books About Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2001
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Norman, OK : The University of Oklahoma
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Library, University of Illinois
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"The figurative movement of women from the private space of the home to the public forum gradually materialized in Latin-American literature over the course of the twentieth century. This particular literary transition substantially mirrored the progress of the feminist sociopolitical movement, in which women retained their affiliation with the home as an integral component of their identity, even as they sought to escape its confines. My investigation treats the utilization of the domestic sphere as a microcosmic model of dominance Hasta no verte Jesús by Elena Poniatowska, La increíble y triste historia de la cándida Eréndira by Gabriel García Márquez, and Afrodita: cuentos, recetas y otros afrodisíacos by Isabel Allende."