"He had always been the most disciplined of writers, sitting early in the morning before his trusty Macintosh, the magical, poetic words that have defined Latin America spilling from his head. That part never changed. But then Gabriel García Márquez, the 1982 Nobel laureate from Colombia and the foremost author in Latin America, learned in 1999 that he had lymphatic cancer."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
November 4, 2005
Published:
Seattle, WA : The Seattle Times Company
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
Books; J10
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In this article Michael Upchurch reviews Gabriel García Márquez's Memories of My Melancholy Whores and compares it to John Cheever's Oh What a Paradise it Seems, stating that Memories of My Melancholy Whores "too, is a lyrical-raunchy portrait of an old man taking what may be his last taste of the world."
After discussing his opinion on the rise of the left in Latin American politics Castaneda stated, "Now that the Cold War is over, it should never happen again. So instead of arguing over whether to welcome or bemoan the advent of the left in Latin America, it would be wiser to separate the sensible from the irresponsible and to support the former and contain the latter. If done right, this would go a long way toward helping the region finally find its bearings and, as Gabriel García Márquez might put it, end its hundreds of years of solitude."
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
May 25, 2004
Published:
New York, NY : The New York Times
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
153(52860) : E1
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Bast focuses on the life and work of translator Gregory Rabassa, his translation of Rayuela, an experimental 1963 novel by Argentine author Julio Cortázar, and his completion of his PhD in Portuguese at Columbia University. He was awarded the first National Book Award for translation in 1967. Mr. Rabassa has done English translationS of such authors as Jorge Amado, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Gabriel García Márquez. Bast also mentions the publication of Mr. Rabassa's autobiography.
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
unknown
Published:
La Habana, Cuba : Ediciones ICAICS Martin Luther King, Jr Memorial Center
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
Kennedy provides information from when he first wrote a review of One Hundred Years of Solitude and then progresses into more details of his journeys into the world of Gabriel García Márquez.
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."
In this review of Hayle Harbour's play A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings Martin states that, "The show is inspired by Gabriel García Márquez's magical realist story about an old man with huge, dirty buzzard wings who crash-lands in a small village."
Gainsville, FL : University of Florida at Gainsville
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
The university Of Florida at Gainsville has chosen "A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings" by Gabriel García Márquez for the One City One Story program which promotes reading.