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
Notes:
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:
May 15, 2005
Published:
Tampa, FL : The Tribune Co.
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
Baylife; 8
Notes:
Walker reviews Chronicle of a Death Foretold, stating that "this slim volume might be the best entry into Márquez's work. It contains many of the elements that mark so much of his fiction - love, fate, familial ties, dreams, desperation, magic - as well as some of his tightest writing."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
July 24, 2005
Published:
Tampa, FL : The Tribune Co.
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
Baylife; 6
Notes:
Walker lists One Hundred Years of Solitude as a book everyone should read. He states that "reading Gabriel García Márquez is akin to sitting around a campfire, listening to a master storyteller, and his prose retains its magic even in translation from the Spanish."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
October 2, 2005
Published:
Boston, MA : Globe Newspaper Company
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
Books; D7
Notes:
Pearlman quotes a review by Stephen McCauley on One Hundred Years of Solitude which states that "after reading this novel there was no forgetting that modern literature is bigger than the English language. Marquez took the top of my head off with the incantational beauty of his imagination, the mythic explication of South American history, the living ghosts and the dead ghosts, the dizzying repetition of names from one generation to the next."
"Living to Tell the Tale-- a title that conjures memories of Moby Dick, as well as this Nobel laureate's own nonfiction book, The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor-- is the first volume of a planned autobiographical trilogy. But its most powerful sections read like one of his mesmerizing novels, transporting the reader to a Latin America haunted by the ghosts of history and shaped by the exigencies of its daunting geography, by its heat and jungles and febrile light. The book provides a memorable portrait of a young writer's apprenticeship as the one William Styron gave us in Sophie's Choice, even as it illuminates the alchemy Mr. García Márquez acquired from masters like Faulkner and Joyce and Borges and later used to transform family stories and firsthand experiences into fecund myths of his own."
Atlanta, Georgia : The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
4D
Notes:
Freeman's review on Living to Tell the Tale: "The verdict: A maestro at work. Full of rich researched anecdotes from the writer's childhood in a small Colombian village, the book has all the weight and exquisite storytelling prowess of Márquez's two fiction masterpieces, Love in the Time of Cholera and One Hundred Years of Solitude."
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
October 15, 2004
Published:
Washington, DC : United Press International
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
Viewed on 28 January, 2008.|"Pirated copies of the newest novel by famed Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez are being sold on the streets, El Tiempo newspaper reported Friday."