In this book Gene H. Bell-Villada has compiled a series of interviews by various authors. In his introduction he states, "This particular Conversations gathering comes with an unusual feature: it contains several interviews that were conducted by Latin Americans and/or Colombians, sometimes on Latin American soil, and always in Spanish, sans interpreters. In each of these instances the culture and nationality of the interviewer makes an enormous difference for the dynamics of the exchange. The encounters in Castilian offer a glimpse of the author at his most informal, forthright, and personable."
"Mundos propios los de estos dos autores, pero unidos per secretos y profundos vasos comunicantes. En primer lugar la poesia misma, que distingue a la obra de Mutis, pero que permea la totalidad de la ficcion de García Márquez. Desde sus juveniles diálogos en una Bogotá compartida en la bohemia y el periodismo, hasta le reelaboración creativa de una colombia transmutada en su mutuo exilio mexicano, estos dos grandes escritores se has enriquecido en lecturas, viajes, reflexiones y figuras. Símbolo perfecto el [Brindis por el poesía] que García Márquez leyó en Estocolmo al recibir el Nobel, y al cual Mutis contribuyó de modo decisivo. O el discurso de García Márquez con motivo de los setenta años de Alvaro Mutis. Pero a la vez la diversidad de sus posturas ente la actualidad politica o personajes como Bolivar hace aun mas vivaz y polemico su dialogo sostenido sin interrupción por mas de medio siglo."
"Juan Gustavo Cobo Borda, quien ha acompañado desde los años sesenta con sus lecturas criticas la trayectoria de ambos autores, ha reunido, por fin, la totalidad de sus aproximaciones a Gabriel García Márquez y Alvaro Mutis."
"Análisis, entrevistas, cronologias y bibliographias puestas al dia nos permiten acceder a sus poemas y a sus novelas con algo mas que un brillante ejercicio de critica literaria."
Cáceres, Spain : Universidad de Extremadura, Servicio de Publicaciones
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260 p.
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The book analyzes Gabriel García Márquez's journalistic history alongside his ability to compose great novels. Molina chooses different journalistic and literary texts from García Márquez, written at different times, to demonstrate how he combines his storytelling ability and his journalistic craft.
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
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2006
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New York, United States : Hofstra University
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Library, University of Illinois
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46 p.
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(Abstract) "The underlying principle for writing this thesis is to compare and contrast The House of the Spirits , written by the Isabel Allende, with One Hundred Years of Solitude , written by Gabriel García Márquez, in hopes of determining which of the two novels better establishes the "true" Latin American identity...in spite of the fact that The House of the Spirits is not intended to convey the "true" Latin American reality, but rather the Chilean reality, it will be argued that this novel, written by Isabel Allende, is the one that better establishes this idea." M.A. Dissertation
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2006
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New York, United States : Teachers College, Columbia University
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Library, University of Illinois
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213 p.
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(Abstract) "In The Autumn of the Patriarch, García Márquez presents the historic stagnation of Latin America. He also describes the underdevelopment in Latin America but offers no solutions. Since its independence, Latin America has worried about defining its future and its space in international politics; nevertheless, from the start, Latin America has had developmental problems...n The Autumn of the Patriarch, previous dictators are portrayed and dictatorships in other novels are referred to as well. We attempt to clarify the description of the mythical Latin-American monster: the dictator that García Márquez portrays in The Autumn of the Patriarch." Ed.D. Dissertation.
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
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2006
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California, United States : California State University, Dominguez Hills
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Library, University of Illinois
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65 p.
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(Abstract) "This thesis argues that, fashion notwithstanding, archetype and myth provide the most compelling guide for analyzing two works by García Márquez--- One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera...the thesis emphasizes Campbell's idea that myth, a universal language, is inspired by the body's energies, a view in which lungs, heart, intestines, skin, and genitals are messengers carrying the answer to the question of human existence." M.A. Dissertation.
Medellín, Colombia : Editorial Universidad de Antioquia
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436
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"Este cursillo va a tratar de una tésis sobre la formación de la literatura, apoyada fundamentalmente en textos de la novelística de García Márquez, lo cual indica usar un tanto a García Márquez como ejemplo para la demostración de una teoría literaria. Ahora bien, los textos fundamentales que vamos a trabajar son 'La hojarasca', 'El coronel no tiene quién le escriba', y 'Cien años de soledad'; además usaremos, desde luego, algunos otros materiales que pertenecen a cuentos o diversas fuentes e informaciones que reseñaré directamente y por extenso si es necesario."
"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."
Canada : Concordia University, Canadian Association for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
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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.
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) : 252-254
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Fernando Valerio-Holguín discusses Ignacio López-Calvo's "God and Trujillo" and the impact of Trujillo's dictatorship on Dominican and Latin American culture. In this discussion of López Calvo's work, Valerio Holguín notes that "God and Trujillo" not only focuses on Dominican literature, but Latin American literature including, among others, that of Gabriel García Márquez.
Sarduy discusses Ned Sublette's work "Cuba and Its Music: From the First drums to the Mambo" and the importance of Cuban music throughout its culture. In the article Sarduy paraphrases Gabriel García Márquez and states that "it might be said that Cuba's musical history is not how it was lived by the musicians and their fans but how it has been remembered and told."