Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
November 22, 2005
Published:
New York, NY : The New York Times Company
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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Section E; Column 1; The Arts/Cultural Dest;
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In reviewing the book, this article by Michiko Kakutani criticizes Memoirs of My Melancholy Whores, stating that "like the entries in his 1993 collection "Strange Pilgrims," this tale demonstrates that the shorter form of the story does not lend itself to Mr. García Márquez's talents: his penchant for huge, looping, elliptical narratives that move back and forth in time is cramped in this format, as is his desire to map the panoramic vistas of an individual's entire life. The fertile inventiveness that animated his masterpiece "One Hundred Years of Solitude" is decidedly muted in these pages, and the reverence for the mundane realities of ordinary life, showcased in more recent works , seems attenuated as well. As a result, "Memories of My Melancholy Whores" feels like brittle little fable composed on automatic pilot."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
November 26, 2005
Published:
Australia : Nationwide News
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
Weatherup praises Memories of My Melancholy Whores and states, "In his first work for ten years, Márquez revisits his famous "magic realism" to spin out "a fairy tale for the aged that celebrates the belated discovery of amorous passion in old age.""
John Mcgourty, Janet Hughes, Fiona Russell, and Ray Chesterton
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Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
November 26, 2005
Published:
Sydney, Australia : Nationwide News
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
FEATURES; Saturday Books; 91
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In this short review of Memories of My Melancholy Whores, John Mcgourty states, "While not his best, this 115-page novella gives a taste of Márquez's story-telling talent." He also states that the book is "a great first read for those intimidated by Márquez's weightier tomes."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
November 27, 2005
Published:
Washington, DC : News World Communications
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
Books; On Books; B06
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In this critique and review of the book Carol Herman states, "Readers had every reason to hope that Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez's latest novel, "Memories of My Melancholy Whores," his first work of fiction in 10 years, would be something to behold. But there is a wrinkle, and it rests in the limitations of the book's own central and disturbing act of "beholding.""
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
November 27, 2005
Published:
San Antonio, TX : San Antonio Express-News
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
Books; 6J
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In his review Gregg Barrios states, "Since this is the first fiction in a decade form Márquez, one can see why his publisher was eager to release it separately from new fiction Gabo (as he is known to his fans worldwide) is working in. Sorry to report this isn't one of his better works, nor is it his "Death in Venice" or his "The Old Man and the Sea.""
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.""
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
December 4, 2005
Published:
San Francisco, CA : The Chronicle Publishing Co.
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
Sunday Review; Our Editors Recomended; M2
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In this review the author states, "At a little more than 100 pages, "Memories of My Melancholy Whores" is really more a novella than a novel and could appear to be a trifle in a large body of work. It is the author's first work of fiction in a decade, which is cause enough to celebrate, but it is also his best work of fiction in the past 20 years. It is an existential riff on the many qualities of love and a skillfully controlled and disciplined work of literature."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
December 4, 2005
Published:
Richmond, VA : Richmond Newsppers
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
Books & Authors; K-3
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In this article Judi Goldenberg discuses the novellas of both Gabriel García Márquez and John Barth. She states about Memories of My Melancholy Whores that "the most memorable feature of this novella is not its occasionally seedy plot but rather its lucid, clean-flowing, unsentimental yet achingly intimate prose, drawing the reader in despite any misgivings."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
December 4, 2005
Published:
Atlanta, GA : The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
Arts & Books 5K
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In this review John Freeman states, "The coin of a prostitute's transaction is not love but debasement. In Gabriel García Márquez's new novella, "Memories of My Melancholy Whores," the Nobel Laureate uses this truth to skewer an aging newspaper columnist who believes, on the eve of his 90th birthday, that he has found true love in a bordello."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
December 6, 2005
Published:
Australia : Nationwide News Pty
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
News; 6
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Glen Morrison states, "Gabriel Gracía Márquez plumbs the nature of love and sex in his first literary offering in more than ten years, Memories of My Melancholy Whores."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
December 8, 2005
Published:
McLean, VA : Gannett Company
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
Life 4D
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In this review Dierdre Donahue states, "Any writing from Nobel Prize-winner Gabriel García Márquez is an event. The Colombian-born author wrote one of the great literary masterpieces of the past century, One Hundred Years of Solitude. Unfortunately, Memories of My Melancholy Whores, his first work of fiction in a decade, is pretty thin and a real letdown compared with his brilliant autobiography, Living to tell the Tale, published in 2003."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
August 18, 2005
Published:
Champaign, IL : Illini Media
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
Beitzel states about Love in the Time of Cholera, "Garcia manages to create a very compelling love story in which nothing happens between the protagonists for fifty years. Yet it is not a slow read, nor boring in any way."
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
Related Item Details:
Books; C4
Notes:
"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, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
December 17, 2005
Published:
Ontario, Canada : Toronto Star Newspaper
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
Books; D10
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In reviewing García Márquez's Memories of My Melancholy Whores, Tong states, "The premise sounds creepy, but García Márquez can find a liberating sense of wonder anywhere... Memories of My Melancholy Whores isn't about sex or love, anyway -- it's about the limits and freedoms of age, the "risks of being alive," as the narrator puts it."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
January 6, 2006
Published:
Orange County, CA : OC Weekly, Inc
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
Books; 26
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In the article Bonca states, "García Márquez is in his late 70's now, and his latest work, Memoirs of My Melancholy Whores, is a novella that, like the last few works by Issac Singer, feels at once modest and brazen, magisterial and bizarre, breaking no new ground but summing up a career's worth of imaginative creation in a little fable of head-shakingly absurd sweetness."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
January 7, 2006
Published:
Montreal, Canada : CanWest MediaWorks
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
Weekend; Arts & Books; H7
Notes:
In reviewing Memories of My Melancholy Whores the author states, "The novel's narrative does creak with age, and its novella-length brevity suggests that García Márquez's stamina may be fading. Yet the author still manages to grace Melancholy Whores with passages of limber loveliness and pithy aphorisms."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
February 10, 2006
Published:
Madison, WI : The Daily Cardinal via U-Wire
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
"Fortunately, García Márquez was nowhere near done with prose, returning to form with his new novel, "Memories of My Melancholy Whores." A compelling and concise piece of work, Márquez proves that even after 15 books he still has the skill and spirit to tell an unforgettable story." ""Melancholy Whores" is closer to Márquez's short stories than his novels in length -- only 115 pages -- but it is still a triumphant return to form. Márquez appears to get even better as the years go on. Hopefully, readers won't have to wait until Márquez himself turns 90 for his next book."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
October 23, 2005
Published:
Chicago, IL : Chicago Tribune
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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1
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"Even the language, though it cannot avoid being rich under [Gabriel García Márquez]'s fingers, is direct. Though Spanish usually becomes shorter when rendered in English, the excellent [Edith Grossman] translation and the original Spanish version of 'Memories' are of roughly the same word count. García Márquez cunningly alludes to this economy when he quotes in the text from a Mexican poem that commends to writers given to verbosity 'torcerle el cuello al cisne,' which means 'to twist the neck of the swan.'"
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
October 20, 2005
Published:
New York, NY : Dow Jones & Company
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
D5
Notes:
"In 'Memories of My Melancholy Whores,' Mr. [Gabriel García Márquez]'s first new novel in a decade, an old bachelor journalist, who has slept with countless prostitutes in his life, decides to buy himself an unusual 90th birthday present: a night with a young virgin."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
November 18, 2004
Published:
Washington, DC : Ayuntamiento
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
27(47) : 12
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Memorias de mis putas tristes: "En su habitual sentido memorioso y sentencioso, GGM nos presenta un rosario de palabras que estaban echadas al olvido como son, por ejemplo, 'alvorazado' (los adolescentes de mi generación avorazados por la vida olvidar...'/Es decir, la ambición por la vida, por quererlo todo y ser voraces), 'camaján' (Hasta el ultimo camaján de la alcaldia...'/Una especia de holgazán que vive mantenido por los demás o alguien cuya corpulencia impone), 'venadas' (Pasaban pedaleando como venadas...'/Veloces, distraídas, asilvestradas y seductoras)."
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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5A
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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."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
November 21, 2004
Published:
Miami, FL : Miami Herald Publishing
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
6D
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"El encanto de la mujer dormida, abandonada a su suerte, indefensa en el lecho, junto al amante que se satisface sólo con mirarla dormir, como en los cuentos de hadas, es 'la esencia del placer,' en Memoria de mis putas tristes, la reciente novela de Gabriel García Márquez, breve, intensa, y diáfana como sus primeros cuentos y la única ficción publicada por el autor en los úlitmos diez años."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
August 22, 2005
Published:
New York, NY : Reed Business Information
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
252(33) : 34
Notes:
The author states about Memoirs of My Melancholy Whores that "the narrator's wit and charm, however, are not enough to counterbalance the monotony of his aimlessness. Though enough grace notes are struck to produce echoes of eloquence, this flatness keeps the memories as melancholy as the women themselves."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
November 2005
Published:
New York, NY : Esquire Publisher
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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144(5) : 56
Notes:
This article reviews Memories of My Melancholy Whores. The author states, "No doubt the work will be clucked at severely by reviewers of a tender age and gender--although perhaps not so severely as they peck at Messers Mailer and Roth and other old cocksmen who lack the protection of Third World cachet. But any actual sin would be committed only if they failed to see that Memories is an elegant, sturdy meditation on regret, isolation, decay, and the inevitable perversity of redemption."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
November 2005
Published:
New York, NY : Harper & Brothers
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
311(1866) : 89-90
Notes:
John Leonard reviews "Memories of My Melancholy Whores" and states, "To be reductive and glib about Gabriel García Márquez's ravishing new novella, Memories of My Melancholy Whores, one could say that Death in Venice meets Lolita. Or that Ivan Ilyich hums along with J. Alfred Prufrock."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
June 1, 2005
Published:
New York, NY : Kirkus Reviews
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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73(11) : S8
Notes:
This article reviews "Memories of My Melancholy Whores." The author quotes Knopf's publicity director, Nicholas Latimer, and states, "Latimer acknowledges that he was initially 'disappointed' the book wasn't longer--but says that it doesn’t read like a short book."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
December 24, 2004
Published:
London, UK : Economist Newspaper Ltd
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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373(8404) : 85
Notes:
This article is a review of Gabriel García Márquez's 'Memories of My Melancholy Whores.' The article states "Absurd? Yes, and so brief that the reader feels short-changed. Even so, the book is beautifully executed, and it had a sort of moral. Great loves often force people to confront unpleasant truths about themselves, but since the great love in this case is not available for comment, the rebirth is entirely the old man's work. A re-examination is always possible, the author seems to say: all one needs is the trigger."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
January 1, 2003
Published:
Chicago, IL : American Library Association Pub. Board
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
99 : 809
Notes:
"This is the Spanish-language version of the great Colombian writer, which has been a best-seller around the world; the English translation is due to be published later in the year."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
March 2005
Published:
Wellesley, MA : KLIATT
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
39(2) : 34
Notes:
In this review of García Márquez's "Living to Tell the Tale" Pucci states that "this book provides a unique opportunity to follow the development of one of the most important writers of the 20th century."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
March 2005
Published:
Madrid, Spain : Ediciones Cultura Hispánica
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
657 : 71
Notes:
"En 'Memoria de mis putas tristes' se revela, con el ingenio de un quino barroco, el genio de la novela, su apuesta por el escándalo de vivir: entre los prostíbulos de la realidad, la fábula de la imaginación redimida."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
October 2005
Published:
United States : Hispanic Publishing Corp.
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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18(10) : pp. 70-71
Notes:
Ambar Hernández reviews: "The Scorpion's Tale," by Sylvia Torti; "Memories of My Melancholy Whores," by Gabriel García Márquez; "Ball Don't Lie," by Matt de la Peña.
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
2004-2005
Published:
Kansas City, MO : University of Missouri-Kansas City
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
71(1)
Notes:
Fay reviews From the Land of Green Ghosts: A Burmese Odyssey, by Pascal Khoo Thwe and Living to Tell the Tale, by Gabriel García Márquez. Of Márquez's memoir she writes, "In reading Living to Tell the Tale, one never gets the sense that what is being documented is necessarily 'real.' Márquez was once quoted as having said, 'If you say there are elephants flying in the sky, people are not going to believe you. But if you say that there are four hundred and twenty-five elephants in the sky, people will believe you.'"
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
Related Item Details:
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."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
July-Sept 2004
Published:
Academia Nacional de la Historia (Venezuela)
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
87(347) : p. 185-192
Notes:
De-Sola writes, "En Vivir para contarla.(Bogotá: Norma, 2002. 584 p.) Gabriel García Marquez nos ofrece el primer tomo de sus memories. En este caso van desde su nacimiento hasta el momento en que, tras la publicación de su primera novela, La hojarasca, en 1955, hizo su primer viaje a Europa. Estos recuerdos importan mucho para sus lectores. Y más allá del estilo sobrio y preciso en que están redactadas ya que ellas nos permiten comprender, a partir de las mismas palabras de García Márquez, cuál fue su vida ... "
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
2001
Published:
United States : Columbia University Hispanic Institute
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
54(2) : pp. 427-436
Notes:
Presents an analysis of fictionalized history in Gabriel García Márquez's "El general en su laberinto." Discusses the originality of Gabriel García Márquez's work and the blending of fiction and reality. Focuses on the general Simon Bolívar.
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
November 2001
Published:
Chile : Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
29 : p. 295
Notes:
Presents a brief article about the parody of power in two Latin American works: "El recurso del metodo" by Alejo Carpentier and "El otono del patriarca" by Gabriel García Márquez.
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
August 22, 2005
Published:
New York, NY : Reed Business Information
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
252(33) : p. 34
Notes:
About Memoirs of My Melancholy Whores, the reviews writes that "the narrator's wit and charm, however, are not enough to counterbalance the monotony of his aimlessness. Though enough grace notes are struck to produce echoes of eloquence, this flatness keeps the memories as melancholy as the women themselves."
Secondary source, Reviews of Books About Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2002
Published:
New York, NY : Columbia University
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
22, 124, 179, 180
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"This thesis offers a discussion of spiralisme and of its contribution to the domain of Francophone Caribbean letters during the latter half of the twentieth century. In a literary universe dominated by "big voices" from the French overseas department of Martinique, the Haiti-born spiralisme has long remained ignored in, underappreciated by, and excluded from discussion among Francophonists. My project sets out to rectify this situation, not only by offering a thorough presentation of the spiralist novel in and of itself, but also, and perhaps more importantly, by integrating spiralisme into a larger post-colonial Caribbean context."
Secondary source, Reviews of Books About Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
1997-1998
Published:
Valladolid, Spain : Universidad de Valladolid, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Departamento de Filología Española
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
The novels about Latin American dictatorships are formed by elements that denounce the social, political, and economic problems of the towns that configure the Latin American world. Their main objective is to create a conscience of injustice and of the damage that men are submitted to in their environment. So that, the theme in "La figura literaria del dictador en "Tirano Banderas,"" "El Señor Presidente," and "El Otoño del Patriarca" studies the similarities and the differences in these novels with other Latin American authors who have studied the theme of dictatorships. By studying the thematic and stylistic development of these novels, we can see that Ramón del Valle-Inclán, Miguel Angel Asturias, and Gabriel García Márquez enter in the field of experimentation. In this way, the works contribute to the creation of a critical space that facilitates the study, interpretation, and the knowledge of the works that literally deal with the theme of Latin American dictatorship.
Secondary source, Reviews of Books About Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
1997
Published:
Madrid, Spain : Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Facultad de Filología, Departamento de Filología Española
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
According to the author, journalism, commonly classified as a literary sub genre, has been a constant presence for García Márquez. The reading of García Márquez's journalistic work in relation to his fiction is essential to complement his narrative world because in his first journalistic period (1948-1960), the Nobel prize-winner experiments with a variety of styles, techniques, and genres that culminate in his masterpiece.
Secondary source, Reviews of Books About Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
1991
Published:
Madrid, Spain : Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Dep. Filología Española
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
This study defines the "Boom" in the new Hispanic American novel between the years 1962 and 1968 beginning from a proposal that is interrelated with the social context of the group of countries where it arises and that of texts that, because they were experimental, were considered aesthetically isolated and new. The following novels are studied: La casa verde, Rayuela, Cien años de soledad, La muerte de Antonio Cruz, Gracias por el juego, and José Trigo.
Secondary source, Reviews of Books About Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
1985
Published:
Madrid, Spain : Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Facultad de Ciencias de la Información
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
Panoramic description of the life and works of Gabriel García Márquez as a journalist divided in four chapters: on the Colombian coast, in Bogotá, in Europe, and in America as an international contributor. Each of these chapters corresponds to determined journalistic periods. Other than the circumstances of each work, the evolution of themes, basic structures, resources, and other formal characteristics of the writings are described. Also shown are the connections between his journalistic works and his literary works. Information about determined aspects of his political biography and direct testimonies of old companions from Bogotá are provided as well.
Secondary source, Reviews of Books About Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
1979
Published:
Madrid, Spain : Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Facultad de Filología
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
This dissertation seeks to outline a theory of the Spanish-American being through the art, following an interpretative method that traces certain symbolic constants, which in turn indicate a way of being more or less permanent. This thesis also analytically studies five novels and five themes: Pedro Páramo and ambiguity; Rayuela and intermittence; La casa verde and precariousness; El obsceno pájaro de la noche and insularity; and Cien años de soledad and fable. In a synthetic form, the problem of instability in the most transparent region can be seen.
Secondary source, Reviews of Books About Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
1976
Published:
Madrid, Spain : Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
This work has two objectives: 1) to know the Colombian reality through stories, using the consulted material as a testimony or reflection; and 2) to see "La ventisca" in all of its literary value as a work of art. The period of time on which this study focuses is 1930 to 1975. In this time period, the works of Gabriel García Márquez are essential.
Secondary source, Reviews of Books About Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2003
Published:
Miami, FL : University of Miami
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
"In this study I explore how three texts from the Colombian Caribbean challenge the notion of a consolidated nation-state and its rhetoric of complete mestizaje, late into the 20th century. With Cien años de soledad by Gabriel García Márquez as the backdrop of my analysis, I unveil the treatment of race, myth, and history respectively in the three novels and how violence shapes the meanings of these categories. The first chapter focuses on Chambacú, corral de negros (1967) by Manuel Zapata Olivella. In this chapter, I define this novel as a depository of the memory of slavery in Colombia that asserts an African heritage in the Northern Coast. At the aesthetic level, I discuss Zapata Olivella's use of social realist narrative style to articulate the identity and history of Afro-Colombians. The second chapter examines Alvaro Cepeda Samudio's La casa grande (1962) to explore the strategies he employs to recover and revise the events of the Massacre of the Banana Workers in 1928. In my reading, the massacre emerges as the first wound that causes the disarticulation of the consolidation process of the modern Colombian nation-state. The last chapter centers on Los Pañamanes (1979) by Fanny Buitrago. I define the legend of the Spanish Man, the foundational legend of the island and the text's organizing element, as a myth of origins that delineates the novel's space as a product of violence and penetration. I establish the use of myth as anti-myth to separate and divide, and to mark the difference that separates the insular space and the continental nation-state. In my conclusion, I return to Cien años de soledad to explore how processes of reception and canonization in the symbolic market are "produced" following strategies derived from the failed encounter between cultural modernism and social modernization."
Secondary source, Reviews of Books About Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2003
Published:
Twin Cities, MN : University of Minnesota
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
"This dissertation studies eight Spanish-American writers (Isabel Allende, Miguel Angel Asturias, Alejo Carpentier, José Donoso, Carlos Fuentes, Joáo Guimaráes Rosa, Gabriel García Márquez, and Juan Rulfo) and two French Caribbean writers (Maryse Condé and Simone Schwarz-Bart) and explores the use in their works of "magic realism" as an allegory of the colonial experience. Beginning in Chapter One with the work of Alejo Carpentier,... I have attempted to illustrate that the novel studies the trauma of colonialism and its enduring effects. Chapter Two examines the history and describes the elements that make up magic realism, illustrating its varied aspects with examples from the works of the authors cited above. Chapter Three deals with the history and description of allegory and shows how its characteristics mirror those of magic realism. Chapter Four studies the work of the two French Caribbean authors and explores the limits of allegory as seen in the work of Simone Schwarz-Bart. The conclusion makes use of a novel by New Zealand author, Janet Frame, to illustrate the fact that magic realism is found, not only in so-called "post-colonial" countries, but in the work of First World authors, where the effects of oppression are evident in the lives of the "colonizers" as well."
Secondary source, Reviews of Books About Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2002
Published:
Amherst, MA : University of Massachusetts
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
"Magic realism emerged as a literary force in Latin America in the 1940s, and it has continued to have an impact on literature throughout the Americas through the start of the twenty-first century. In recent years, a number of post-colonial scholars have noted that magic realist texts are being used as a form of social protest throughout the world. These scholars have labeled magic realism subversive, hybrid, mestizo, or "impure." The implications of the relationship between magic realist literature and social protest, however, have not been the focus of detailed scholarship. This study explores the relationship between magic realism and social protest in novels written in Latin America and the United States between 1950 and 1990, seeking to determine why the literary mode of magic realism in an effective vehicle for addressing volatile social issues. Organized chronologically, the study begins with an overview of the term "magic realism" and a brief discussion of some of the important predecessors of magic realist literature in the Americas. Later chapters use a range of theoretical tools within a comparative framework in order to perform detailed analysis of specific writers - Juan Rulfo, Elena Garro, Gabriel García Márquez, Isabel Allende, Rudolfo Anaya, Alma Luz Villanueva, Toni Morrison, and Linda Hogan- in order to explore how magic realist techniques have been adapted to different forms of protest according to each author's time and geographical space."
Secondary source, Reviews of Books About Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2001
Published:
University Park, PA : The Pennsylvania State University
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
"This dissertation analyzes three detective novels of the post-boom in Latin American literature. The appropriation of the genre by authors included in this study- Gabriel García Márquez, Luisa Valenzuela, and Leonardo Padura Fuentes- is, I contend, a strategic appropriation of popular culture through which various social, political, and cultural master narratives existent in Latin America are examined. The introduction first discusses how the Boom novels' self-reflexiveness led to demands for a more explicitly politically committed literature, which the appropriation of the detective genre fulfilled while continuing the Boom's preoccupation with writing's traditional support of dominant power structures in Latin America... Chapter one reveals how Crónica de una muerte anunciada by Gabriel García Márquez undermines the concept of causality. Through this questioning, the novel reflects on the arbitrary processes of exclusion through which the writing of history is made possible, a literary preoccupation that gains its political edge through detective fiction and journalism's common root in the classical-realist narrative that Crónica de una muerte anunciada critiques."
Secondary source, Reviews of Books About Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2002
Published:
New York, NY : City University of New York
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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294p.
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"The objective of this dissertation is to show that the Caribbean culture plays an essential role in Gabriel García Márquez's works, determining space, and structure and influencing his characters. In his books, the novelist revisits the first colonial chroniclers' vision and presents the Caribbean as a unified anthropological marvel, which irradiates from the West-Indian archipelago towards the southern portion of United States, Central America, and the northern zone of South America. The Caribbean culture is not only a vital source from which his narrative is born, but he cleaves his novelistic space into two opposite worlds, converting them in hyperbolic antinomies."
Also published in Colección Premios anuales (Santo Domingo : Editora Nacional, c2007), for having won the Premio Nacional de Ensayo. Modalidad Ensayo Literario, 2006.
Secondary source, Reviews of Books About Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2001
Published:
Norman, OK : The University of Oklahoma
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
"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."
Secondary source, Reviews of Books About Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2001
Published:
Durham, NC : Duke University
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
This thesis attempts to explore the works of G. García Márquez, F. Cruz Kronfly, G. Espinosa y A. Mútis that propose a new image of Simón Bolívar, agent of the independence of the 19th century. Here, the purpose of thematic convergence and historical intent from the last two decades of the 20th century in the light of the complexity and tension presented in the Bolivar project of social unification of the American subcontinent during its national formation in the 19th century is investigated. It is proven that through these narrative works a divergence from the traditional historic discourse of the historic mother countries is manifested. In these, the dismount of the complex social and cultural condition, as well as the reconstruction of the present national panorama is proposed.
Secondary source, Reviews of Books About Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2000
Published:
Boulder, CO : University of Colorado at Boulder
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
"The goal of this thesis is to examine the ways in which contemporary novelists from Venezuela and Colombia have treated one of the most prominent nineteenth-century historical figures of South America, the "Liberator," also known as the founding father of their nations. The novels examined at length are Sinfonía desde el Nuevo Mundo (1990) by Germán Espinosa, Manuel Piar, caudillo de dos colores (1987) by Francisco Herrera Luque, El general en su laberinto (1989) by Gabriel García Márquez, La ceniza del Libertador (1989) by Fernando Cruz Konfly, and El insondable (1997) by Álvaro Pineda Botero."
Secondary source, Reviews of Books About Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2000
Published:
Riverside, CA : University of California, Riverside
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
"This dissertation demonstrates generic dislocation as a constant in the short fiction of three contemporary Latin American writers: Julio Ramón Ribeyro, Gabriel García Márquez, and Augusto Monterroso. In the work of these three authors, the short story does not denote a text with fixed characteristics. Rather, it indicates a textual space for diverse expressive possibilities, even though the category "short story" continues to be pertinent in its instrumental value. This analysis of stories by the mentioned authors indicates that generic subversion also nurtures a play on the boundaries among different types of writing... In the works of Gabriel García Márquez, genres played which include: the autobiography, travel books, theater programs, the police report, and oral narrative."
Secondary source, Reviews of Books About Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2003
Published:
Toronto, Canada : University of Toronto
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
"This study explores the representation of women in contemporary magic realist texts from Latin America, English Canada, and Quebec. From a feminist standpoint, it examines how men and women writers represent women characters in texts that allegorically use supernatural power to denaturalize social power. Intracultural and intercultural considerations of these New World texts reveal shared approaches, both positive and negative, to women's identities and roles. In the more progressive works - Isabel Allende's La casa de los espíritus, Jack Hodgin's The Invention of the World, Anne Hérbert's Les fous de Bassan, and Michel Tremblay's La grosse femme d" à côté est enceinte- women characters use naturalized supernaturalism (defined as the casual presence of the supernatural in the natural world) to affirm feminine subjectivity and freedom. The assumption of mythic forms or an engagement with the occult can give a female character mobility, spiritual freedom, and pleasure. But the power figuratively expressed through the supernatural is denied women in Gabriel García Márquez's Cien años de soledad, Sheila Watson's The Double Hook, Anne Hérbert's "L"ange de Dominique," and Jack Ferron's L"amélanchier.
Secondary source, Reviews of Books About Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2003
Published:
New York, NY : New York University
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
"The purpose of this study is to explore the intersection of literature and illness in order to demonstrate that disease metaphor is an effective tope for Latin American authors seeking to represent topics that have been culturally and historically pathologized in both national society and/or literature. It analyzes the way the rhetoric of the somatic for pathological was used at the end of the 19th century. It also traces the development of this rhetoric into the following century. The dissertation begins with an overview of general literary theory dealing with diseases and representation focusing on Susan Sontag, Julia Epstein, and Sander Gilman. It offers a linguistic perspective on the functioning of metaphor as well. By bringing the ideas of medical historian Charles Rosenberg to bear on this linguistic discussion the author defines the notion of the frame and framing. Frames can be understood as parallel to the concept of the artist's convention- constructs that inform the perception of disease as both a biological event and a social occurrence. Tuberculosis, cholera, and sexually transmitted diseases (AIDS in particular) are the illnesses central to this study. The Latin American writers Abraham Valdelomar, Manuel Puig, Gabriel García Márquez, and Reinaldo Arenas employ metaphors with these diseases in order to engage specific socio-historic material via frames."
Secondary source, Reviews of Books About Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2003
Published:
Las Vegas, NV : University of Nevada
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
"By redefining social or economic "classes" as cultures, or as Raymond Williams explains, groups that share a "structure of feeling," the dissertation defines power in accordance with the shared values, beliefs, attitudes, and practices defined by the culture of persistence and the culture of wealth. With culturally determined definitions of power in place, the dissertation argues for a broader understanding of female power as the power is accessed and wielded by female characters in the writings of Willa Cather, Gabriel García Márquez, and Dorothy Allison. Engaging the strategies of feminist geographies employed, critics including Doreen Massey, Gillian Rose, and the Women and Geography Study Group, the dissertation analyzes the methods by which female characters negotiate successes or failures in accessing and wielding power."
Secondary source, Reviews of Books About Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2003
Published:
Long Beach, CA : California State University
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
"The purpose of this study is to examine the image of the dictator in literature of Latin America. The dictator, as he is depicted in the works of Alejo Carpentier, Augusto Roa Bastos, and Gabriel García Márquez, is a central archetypal icon who embodies the tragic history of anti-democratic rule in the Latin American republics. The dictator, however, also personifies the complexities and contradictions that come with military rule. The three authors seek to examine the dynamics of dictatorial power, but they also explore deeper psychological, aesthetic, historical, and philosophical problems surrounding the novel of the dictator."
Secondary source, Reviews of Books About Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2004
Published:
Boston, MA : Boston College
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
"This study focuses on how a dictator or a culturally dominant power can use language to impose cultural values. As an instrument of power, language is used by a dictator to educate, induce, or manipulate a nation's citizens into acting in accordance with the ruling power's cultural values and beliefs. Jorge Zalamea in El Gran Burundún-Burundá ha muerto (1951), Gabriel García Márquez in El otoño del patriarca (1975), and Mario Vargas Llosa in La fiesta del Chivo (2000) draw attention to how the use of vernacular can resist cultural imposition by employing culture-specific terms in order to represent its own culture and nature of reality."
Secondary source, Reviews of Books About Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
June 1, 2005
Published:
New York, NY : Reed business Information
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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Video Reviews; 54
Notes:
This article discusses the movie García Márquez: Un viaje al corazón de la memoria. "This documentary traces some of the influences behind Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel García Márquez's work, particularly his childhood years in his hometown of Aracataca.
Secondary source, Reviews of Books About Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
February 2006
Published:
United States : Book News, Inc.
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
Reviews "Gabriel García Márquez" by Harold Bloom. "This volume introduces the life and work of Latin American writer Gabriel García Márquez. It features a biography of the author plus three critical essays discussing the style, tone, and structure of well-known novels such as 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' and 'Love in the Time of Cholera.' The volume also contains a chronology and an extensive bibliography of works by and about Garcia Marquez."
Secondary source, Reviews of Books About Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
November 2005
Published:
United States : Book News, Inc.
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
The article depicts "Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Love in the time of cholera," edited by Harold Bloom. "This volume contains ten essays from leading critics on Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Love in the Time of Cholera. It opens with a brief introduction by Harold Bloom (Yale U.) and concludes with a chronology. Sample topics include Garcia Marquez's ambiguous feminism, his novel's advocacy of heroic individuality, and the seductive nature of its narrative. The different representations of temporality in the novel are also explored."
Secondary source, Reviews of Books About Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
Summer 2003
Published:
United States : Hispanic Review
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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71(3) : p.444
Notes:
This is a review of the book Voice-Overs: Translation and Latin American Literature, which includes, according to Waisman, "light-toned commentaries by Cortázar and García Márquez on the difficulties and under-appreciation of translation."
Secondary source, Reviews of Books About Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
May 2003
Published:
United States : Chasqui
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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32(1) : p. 120
Notes:
This is a review of a book by Amelia Barilia, in which the author makes mention of the influence García Márquez had on the writing of Borges and Reyes.
Secondary source, Reviews of Books About Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
May 2003
Published:
United States : Chasqui
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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32(1) : p. 147-150
Notes:
This is a review of Delia Poey's book Latino American Literature in the Classroom, which mentions that Gabriel García Márquez's works are often taught as highly original texts that are representative of life in Latin America. Poey presents her opinion of this teaching style.
Secondary source, Reviews of Books About Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
Nov/Dec 2002
Published:
United States : Organization of American States
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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54(6) : p. 60-61
Notes:
Mujica reviews the book Luminous Cities by Eduardo García Aguilar. Part of the book takes place on the coast of Colombia, in the town of Riohacha. Mujica writes, "This area known for its violence and lawlessness is also the inspiration for the best loved novels of Gabriel García Márquez, whom the people venerate, along with Octavio Paz. In this beautiful but savage land, children and their teachers flock to the public library and films by García Márquez attract steady crowds. In Riohacha the juxtaposition of the magical and the commonplace that marks García Márquez's writing is just part of the landscape."
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
Notes:
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.
Secondary source, Reviews of Books About Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
May 2005
Published:
United States : University of Georgia
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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34(1) : pp. 185-188
Notes:
Foster analyzes Guerrieri's interpretation of Columbian novels in the early twentieth century. Guerrieri gives an analysis of the "Boom" era and states that authors such as García Márquez are important, but he focuses on the era prior to the phenomena.
Secondary source, Reviews of Books About Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
May 2002
Published:
United States : Chasqui
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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31(1) : pp. 146-150
Notes:
Ricci reviews "Culture and Customs of Colombia," by Raymond L. Williams and Kevin G. Gurrieri. The most recent volume is divided into eight chapters, one of which is called "Gabriel García Márquez: el escritor y el hombre."
Secondary source, Reviews of Books About Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
June 2002
Published:
United States : Columbia Univerisity
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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55(1)
Notes:
Review of Guadalupe Fernández Ariza's book El héroe pensativo: la melancolía en Jorge Luis Borges y en Gabriel García Márquez. The book itself contains criticism and interpretations of García Márquez's work.
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
Notes:
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.