Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
November, 2003
Published:
Bogotá, Colombia : El Tiempo
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
News of a three-day meeting of narrators and national commentators where they will discuss the vitality of the national written works in spite of violence. Santiago Gamboa states, "the fact that Gabriel García Márquez is Colombian and so are we is an irrelevant fact, for if it isn't for that simple fact that he will influence us more or less than other people."
Pérez-Baltodano remarks on the political, social, and economic conditions in Latin America. In one remark, he quotes a Gabriel García Márquez' expression, "a pesar de su riqueza, son inferiores a su propia suerte," in a remark towards the Latin American elite.
Mario Lillo writes about Hernán Rivera Letelier and his work "Los trenes se van al purgatorio." In the article he briefly comments about García Márquez and style that defines Latin American literature.
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
September 8, 2005
Published:
McLean, VA : Gannett Company, Inc
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
Life; 6D
Notes:
In this review of Gabriel García Márquez's Memories of My Melancholy Whores, Deirdre Donahue explains that "the narrator is expert in the world of love for money but finds that transformation is possible even at the end of life."
In this article, Márquez discusses Merce Rodoreda's work "Invisible Woman." Rodoreda is hailed to be one of Spain's best post-civil war authors, and Márquez describes his experience in reading her work while in Barcelona, Spain.
Brief article mentioning the authors and poems presented in the current issue as part of the "Dossier yucateco". Briefly mentions an author's allusion the the works of García Márquez.
"The article presents recommendations to expand a library's collections of South American travel books. Suggested are many titles, including 'My Invented Country: A Memoir,' by Isabel Allende, 'In Patagonia,' by Bruce Chatwin, 'Lost Cities and Ancient Mysteries of South America,' by David Hatcher, 'One Hundred Years of Solitude,' by Gabriel García Márquez..."