Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
July, 1999
Published:
UK : BBC News
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
Viewed on 24 January, 2008.|"Actor Antonio Banderas is to follow-up his recent directorial debut with a TV series based on six unpublished stories by Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez."
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
October 26, 2004
Published:
Birmingham, UK : Midland Independent Newspapers PLC
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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4
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"Some 50,000 copies of Memorias de mis putas tristes, the latest novel by Nobel Prize winning author Gabriel García Márquez, went on sale in Venezuela yesterday amid high demand that prompted the publisher to order another 20,000 copies."
Viewed on 28 January, 2008.||Reviews Living to Tell the Tale through a series of collected reviews from sources such as Daily Telegraph, FAZ, The LA Times, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, New Statesman, The NY Times, Newsweek, The Observer, Sydney Morning Herald, and The Washington Post. The overall assessment was of a grade of A: considered an utterly engaging memoir and generally found it very enjoyable.
In discussing Tomas Eloy Martinez, the author states, "He was shortlisted for the first Man Booker International Prize in 2005 and has been garlanded with praise by Gabriel García Márquez, Mario Vargas Llosa and Carlos Fuentes, among others."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
October 19, 2005
Published:
New York, NY : The New York Sun
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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Front Page; 1
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In his review of Gabriel García Márquez's Memories of My Melancholy Whores, Adam Kirsch discusses the controversy around the novel's subject matter. In his article he states that "Mr. García Márquez manages to deflect moral or even psychological judgment on the acts of his characters because the "magic" of his fiction annuls the "realism" that is supposed to go along with it."
This article presents Adam Zagajewski's acceptance speech for his Neustadt International Prize for Literature. He remarks on how much of an honor it is to be part of a list of great authors including Gabriel García Márquez.
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
April, 2003
Published:
Slate, MSN
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
Viewed on 24 January, 2008. ||Waldman states that novels are not selling as one would expect them to, mainly due to the lack of interest from the public in modern novels. Waldman reiterates that people would rather read the classics than read a modern novel; therefore, publishing companies will be spending more money on promoting classics.
"In 2001, Nichols left Bana and opened Macondo Design in Middle Island, which she named after the magical village in 100 years of Solitude, a novel by Gabriel García Márquez. The name struck a cord with Nichols, who said, I help peoples' dreams come true."
Barranquilla Colombia : Fundación Cultural Nueva Música: La Iguana Ciega
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
Gabriel García Márquez is mentioned various times through out the book, specifically on pages 17, 24, 69, 70, 76, 82, 91, 92, 94, 98, 102, and 110-114.
Reviewing El general en su laberinto, Castañon offers that fans and readers of the book were so into the novel, distraught, tired from staying up to finish it, somber, and then went back to reread the novel as characters who were locked in stone and mud. For some, the novel was or is a tribute or a betrayal to Fidel Castro. For others, the novel was about Che Guevara, a symbolic imitation of the failed guerrilla that we all carry inside.
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
October 20, 2004
Published:
Miami, FL : Miami Herald Publishing
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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"En cambio, en la Ciudad de Mexico, donde Random House Mandadori y [Diana] hicieron un tiraje inicial de 100,000 libros, hubo librerías que se ingeniaron formas de recibir desde hace dos días la novela donde Gabo recrea una fascinación literaria que comparte con otros grandes escritores ante un argumento tan suscinto como inquietante: la incursión que hace un anciano en la frontera entre el sueño, el eros, el amor, y la muerte, escoltado por 'el arrullo de la respiración apacible' de una virgen."
"Like the publication of Vivir para contarla, the novel's release came with a few surprises. Previously, Knopf lost thousands of sales for the author's autobiography because illegally imported foreign editions were readily available to his fans in the U.S. To avoid that mistake, the house joined forces with [Gabriel García] Márquez's agent, Carmen Balcells, and the book's other Spanish-language publishers for what was originally a worldwide release on October 27."
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
November, 2002
Published:
New York, NY : F. Leypoldt
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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249(47) : 16
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"Reports that publisher Knopf will release Gabriel García Márquez's Spanish-language autobiography, Vivir para contarla, on December 3, 2002. Initial number of copies to be printed, number of copies sold in Latin American countries."
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
Sep/Oct, 2002
Published:
New York, NY : Críticas
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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2(5) : 14
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"Provides information on the memoir Vivir para contarla by Gabriel García Márquez. Editorial book houses among which the rights of the memoir written by Márquez was divided. Explanation for the decision of Márquez to divide the rights of the book. Reason for the delay of the release of the memoir."
Spain : Centro de Estudios y Cooperación para América Latina
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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9(21) : pp. 35-52
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Discusses contemporary issues with the analysis of Cervantes and Don Quijote de La Mancha by various writers. Briefly mentions the effect of this classic literature on modern writing, including in "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel García Márquez.
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
December 1, 2005
Published:
Washington, DC : National Public Radio
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
Accessed on 31 January, 2008. Alan Cheuse states, "What he [Gabriel García Márquez} gives us this time around is a memorable love story in a minor, minor key... he falls madly for the girl and finds a new life at an age, as he himself puts it, "when most mortals have already died.""
Viewed on 28 January, 2008.||Colombia is preparing to celebrate Gabriel García Márquez's 70th birthday, an event he will not attend because he said that Colombia "had become an uncomfortable country, uncertain and troubling for a writer," and announced that he was going to exile himself in Mexico.
Alberto Delgado Carlos García Agraz, Jorge Sánchez, Laura Imperiale, Susana Cato, dir., music, prod., and storyline
Format:
Primary source, Audio-visual Materials
Publication Date:
2003, 1990
Published:
Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
"Three weeks before her marriage in 1990, a young woman named Susana has a massive antique mirror hung on her bedroom wall. What is she to think when she discovers a soldier --circa 1863-- living in the room's reflection? And what are her family and fiancée to think, when having fallen deeply in love with him, Susana steps through the glass to enter his bygone world?" -www.films.com
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
November 12, 2005
Published:
London, UK : Guardian Newspapers
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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Guardian Review Pages; 16
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Alberto Manguel discuses the topic of Gabriel García Márquez's Memories of My Melancholy Whores and states that "such stuff can, in the hands of great writers, make for splendid literature... Memories of My Melancholy Whores, however, never seems to extend beyond the mere smutty story."
In discussing the theme of the dictator in many novels and reviewing Daniel Pennace's "The Dictator and the Hammock" the author refers to Gabriel García Márquez and states:
"In 1968, Carlos Fuentes had the idea of compiling an anthology of fictional accounts of Latin American dictators, and asked a number of novelist friends to write about a dictator from their own country. They had, alas, what the French call 'the embarrassment of choice.' Though the project never materialized, several writers took up his suggestion. Years later, Augusto Roa Bastos published I the Supreme and Gabriel García Márquez, whose native Colombia was one of the few countries not to boast (or bemoan) a dictator, invented a composite figure for the protagonist of his Autumn of the Patriarch. These were not the first attempts at describing what García Márquez once called 'the only mythological figure Latin America has produced.'"
United States : Asociacion de Literatura Femenina Hispanica
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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28(2) : pp. 137-157
Notes:
Analyzes and reviews "El aire tan dulce", by Elvira Orphée. Mentions that her work is similar to the Magical Realism of Gabriel García Márquez, but is in fact existentialist.
Secondary source, Reviews of Books About Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2004
Published:
United States : Latin American Studies Association
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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39(2) : pp. 155-163
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Reviews "Before and after the Boom: Recent Scholarship on Latin American Literary and Cultural Studies," by Elizabeth Coonrod Martínez. Discusses the chapters in the work dedicated to "Boom" writers such as Gabriel García Márquez.
"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
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
2002
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
Boese notes the rumors to which Gabriel García Márquez has been subject since 1999, including those of a farewell poem, "La Marioneta," being sent out to his closest friends on account of his worsening condition, when in reality he had not written the poem."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
December 17, 2005
Published:
Ontario, Canada : Toronto Star Newspapers
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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Books; C4
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"In the recently published first volume of his memoirs, Living to Tell the Tale, Gabriel García Márquez makes it clear right from the beginning that his autobiography won't just be about what really happened. His memory of events is in various places irreconcilable with "the facts." It is an old magical realist's dream of the past, not an attempt at historical recovery. Memories of My Melancholy Whores is a short novel, a novella really, written in much the same spirit."
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
February, 2004
Published:
Ontario, Canada : Toronto Star Newspapers, Ltd.
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
C4
Notes:
"You wouldn't expect the autobiography of Nobel Prize-winner Gabriel García Márquez to be just another life story. After all, this is the fellow who made magic realism into a literary brand. You know he has tricks up his sleeve... This isn't going to be just the facts. Living to Tell the Tale is a life reconstructed in the imagination." -Good
In this article, news staffer Alex Neth compiles a list of romantic literature recommended by community members. Gabriel García Márquez's "Love in the Time of Cholera" was one of the books listed and discussed.
San Juan, Puerto Rico : Fundación Puertorriqueña de las Humanidades
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
Originally presented as the author's Master's thesis. Could be used as a guide for reading Crónica de una muerte anunciada. Contains an extensive bibliography.
Grohmann mentions García Márquez's comment, written in his autobiography Vivir para contarla, that newspaper editorials are more a form of literature than of journalism.
Hildensheim, Zürich, and New York : Georg Olms Verlag
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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297p.
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Includes the following relevant articles: "¿Descolonización de la historia? El caso de la novela histórica en la región norteandina" by Brigitte König pp. 51-72; and "¿Descolonización de la historia? El caso de la historiografía en la región norteandina" by Hans-Joachim König pp. 27-49.
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
(May 2004)
Published:
Washington, D.C. : Washington Times Corp.
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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19(5) : pp. 224-228
Notes:
This is a review of Gabriel García Márquez's memoirs "Living to Tell the Tale." The author states "In his first volume of his memoirs, Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez chronicles how memories enable one to re-experience and reinvent the past."
"The writer contends that Colombian author and Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez presents a dismal social portrait of Latin America in several of his books, including the first volume of his memoirs, Living to Tell the Tale."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
October 29, 2005
Published:
Edinburgh, Scotland : The Scotsman Publications
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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9
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In this review of Gabriel García Márquez's Memories of My Melancholy Whores Allan Massie states that "The novella is really a meditation on old age, that time of life when reality itself can appear, as the narrator remarks, "fantastic"...The old may feel as intensely as they ever did in their youth. But what they feel seems in them incredible, absurd, or disgusting to those who have not yet arrived at the summit from which the read leads precipitously downhill to the grave."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
November 9, 2005
Published:
Salon.com
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
In this article Allen Barra reviews Memories of My Melancholy Whores and also discusses the controversy around the book's plot, stating, "The relationship between the old man and the pubescent girl is giving some critics conniption fits. For instance, Adam Kirsch in the New York Sun: "That Mr. García Márquez expects the reader to salute an ancient man's victory over a child rather than see it as pathetic or monstrous, is the latest measure of his fiction's heroic contempt for reality."" He then goes on to state that "it seems a little late in the game to sic the p.c. police on the creator of Colonel Aureliano Buendia, who, in "One Hundred Years of Solitude," published in 1967, sired 17 sons by 17 different women. And why, one wonders, are so many critics upset? Because the old man pays for his time with the girl? Perhaps because they want the strange relationship to be consummated?"
Presents an excerpt from the book "La mansión de Arautcaíma," by Álvaro Mutis. The article also mentions that Gabriel García Márquez, a long time friend, has positive criticism about his work.
Madrid, Spain : Insula, Librería, Ediciones y Publicaciones, S.A.
Location:
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.'"
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
July-September, 2002
Published:
Barranquilla, Colombia : La casa de Asterión
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
3(10)
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Viewed on 24 January, 2008.||Interview with Gustavo Ibarra Merlano about García Márquez. Begins with a brief description of how Ibarra and García Márquez met. He provides a surplus of details about García Márquez and his education and what kind of person he was when they met. Then, the interviewer, asks Ibarra to compare La hojarasca to Antigone, who points out that they are similar because they both discuss power relations.
Secondary source, Reviews of Books About Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
Nov 2002
Published:
Chile : Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Instituto de Letras
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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31 : p. 177-180
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Chaverri reviews María Lourdes Cortés' book Amor y tración: cine y literatura en América, in which Cortés analyzes issues related to the translation of literature to film, focusing in particular on the works of five Latin American writers who are considered part of the "Boom." She includes among them Gabriel García Márquez's Crónica de una muerte anunciada.