Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
July, 2003
Published:
México DF, México : La Jornada
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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Sección Cultura
Notes:
With 2,000 books, mostly novels, some donated by the Cultural Economic Fund, the first Latin American library in Canada opened in Quebec about a month ago. It was baptized with the name of the Colombian Nobel prize winner, Gabriel García Márquez.
"It was heartening, then, to read the next day of the new Gabriel García Márquez novel, Memories of My Melancholy Whores, which has just gone on sale in the Hispanophone world. García Márquez is 76 and unwell, but his book seems to be about sex,love and age, not age, death and funerals. Its principal character is a retired journalist, just turning 90, who decides to mark his birthday by sleeping with a 14-year old virgin prostitute (the book is set in Colombia in the 1950s, putting plenty of cultural distance between us and the uncomfortable morality of that time and place)."
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."
San Juan, Puero Rico : Universidad de Puerto Rico Faculdad de Humanidades
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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31(2) : 59
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"George McMurray, in his 1985 article, commented upon the links between the apocalyptic ending of 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' and the epiphany of Borges' 'El Aleph.' In this study I trace the origins of this vision in the work of the Colombian writer. As a young journalist, García Márquez wrote over 800 newspaper columns, several of which demonstrate his fascination for these pinnacle moments of vision or knowledge, a momentary glimpse of all time and space, an instant where the human imagination can capture the meaning of the universe. The novelist has repeatedly pointed to his early journalism as the laboratory for his mature fiction, the site that allowed him the opportunity for literary experimentation. It is my contention that the origins of the last Buendia's epiphany can be glimpsed in several columns which represent a leitmotif in García Márquez's early writing."
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
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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.
United States : Asociación de Literatura Femenina Hispánica
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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31(2) : pp. 179-181
Notes:
André unveils different conversations/interviews with Isabel Allende. In one part of an interview, Allende confesses that she was influenced by many "Boom" writers, including García Márquez.
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
November, 2003
Published:
New York, NY : The New York Times Co.
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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2 Late edition-Final Section 1 Column 5
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"Because of an editing error, a review of Living to Tell the Tale, a memoir by Gabriel García Márquez, page 8 of the Book Review today wrongly states the year of the author's birth in some copies. It was 1927, as he has recently acknowledged, not 1928, as it appears in many reference works and on Web sites."
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
November, 2003
Published:
Manchester, England : Guardian Newspapers Limited
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
Viewed on 24 January, 2008.|"Two familiar figures in the novels of Colombian national treasure Gabriel García Márquez are the police chief and the mayor. And it has been a busy time for the real-life version of the characters in Colombia. Colombia's chief of police, General Teodoro Campo, has just resigned along with four other senior officers after revelations that they had been using an account meant for payments to informants to fund three years of lavish dinner parties, whiskey, and expensive chocolates. Echoes of García Márquez are everywhere in Cali. In one of his earlier books, An Evil Hour, someone keeps leaving notes bearing malicious gossip outside the doors of the inhabitants of a Colombian town. Though the book was published in 1968, the wicked habit its author described is still alive and well."
Santiago, Chile : Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades, Departamento de Literatura
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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(61) : 145-185
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"This article represents an "analysis" and "interpretation" (Kayser) of García Márquez, particularly of his most famous novel. The psychosemantics in the title already reveals the power of myth, displayed in the archetype (Jung) of Macondo, Úrsula, of Time, etc. The perspective applied to the novel includes and integrates psychohistorical, psychomythological and ethnopsychological dimensions, clearly in the vanguard of contemporary psychology. This interpretation not only appeals to Freud and Jung, but also to the psychological and social sciences of the Latin America of today." -Abstract at the end of article