Efraín Kristal Contributors: Edwin Williamson and Evelyn Fishburn
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Primary source, Audio-visual Materials
Publication Date:
(January 4, 2007)
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BBC
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Library, University of Illinois
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"Jorge Luis Borges is one of the greatest writers of the 20th Century, best known for his intriguing short stories that play with philosophical ideas, such as identity, reality and language. His work, which includes poetry, essays, and reviews of imaginary books, has had great influence on magical realism and literary theory. He viewed the realist novel as over-rated and deluded, revelling instead in fable and imaginary worlds. He declared “people think life is the thing but I prefer reading”.
Translation formed an important part of his work, writing a Spanish language version of an Oscar Wilde story when aged around 9. He went on to introduce other key writers such as Faulkner and Kafka to Latin America, liberally making changes to the original work which went far beyond what was, strictly speaking, translation.
He lived most of his life in obscurity, finding recognition only in his sixties when he was awarded the International Publishers' Prize which he shared with Samuel Beckett. By this point he was blind but continued to write, composing poetry in his head and reciting from memory.
So how has Borges' work informed ideas about our experience of the world through language? How much was his writing shaped by his travel abroad and an unrequited love? And how has his legacy inspired the next generation of great Latin American authors such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Mario Vargas Llosa?"-- BBC Website
Marcy Schwartz Daniel Balderston, eds. García Márquez, Gabriel, and au
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Primary source, NStories in Anthologies
Publication Date:
2002
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Albany, NY : State University of New York Press
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Library, University of Illinois
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23-25
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Translated for this anthology by Daniel Balderston and Marcy Schwartz, was published in Spanish as "Los pobres traductores buenos" in Gabriel García Márquez: Notas de prensa (1980-1984), 1991.
This anthology includes four works by Gabriel García Márquez: "La siesta del martes," "El ahogado más hermoso del mundo," "El rastro de tu sangre en la nieve," and "Sólo viene a hablar por teléfono." It also includes a short selection about Gabriel García Márquez on page 410.
Translated for this anthology by Daniel Balderston and Marcy Schwartz; was published in Spanish as "Los pobres traductores buenos" in Gabriel García Márquez: Notas de prensa (1980-1984), 1991.
Secondary source, Bibliographies on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
1998
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Detroit, MIS Washington, D.C.S London, UK : Bruccoli Clark Layman Books Gale research
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Library, University of Illinois
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17 : DLB-113, Y-82.
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This volume concentrates on the major figures of a particular literary period, 1931-1984. Entries are generously illustrated with facsimiles of manuscripts and reused galley proofs, title pages, dust jackets, and pictures from the authors' lives.
Secondary source, Bibliographies on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
1998
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New York, NYS Dublin, Ireland : The H.W. Wilson Company
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Library, University of Illinois
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383, 384, 401, 407.
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This is an extensive bibliography edited by Laurel Cooley and indexed by Jan Borodkin and Christine Irizarry. Contains an extensive listing of García Márquez's work or texts about him.
Secondary source, Bibliographies on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2001
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Barcelona, Spain : Editorial Casiopea
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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156-159
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Zuluaga Osorio states that because there is so much written about Gabriel García Márquez already, there is a need to present a reduced bibliography that points to opening new possibilities and not reduce perspectives. According to the author, the included bibliography, with a little over fifty titles, is excessive because the purpose of it is to orient and nothing more.
Secondary source, Bibliographies on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
c2003
Published:
Bogotá : Norma
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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1006 p
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This is a two-volume translation of Gabriel García Márquez: A Descriptive Bibliography, published in 1998. Klein states that he searched in libraries and private collections held in different countries to compile this descriptive bibliography. He has made an effort to describe all the editions, publishers, format, and every aspect of García Márquez's works. Volume 2 includes a color illustration section of the covers of the different editions of many of his works.
This book contains a detailed analysis of García Márquez's novel Crónica de una muerte anunciada. The book is divided in the following chapters: biografía del autor, tema y argumento, lista de personajes, resúmenes y comentarios, temas claves de la obra, localización especial y geográfica, tiempo histórico e interno, análisis detallado de personajes, recursos literarios, vocabulario y aclaración de expresiones difíciles, cronología sumaria, críticas sobre el autor y la obra, talleres y preguntas de repaso, and bibliografía básica.
This book is a detailed analysis of García Márquez's El coronel no tiene quien le escriba. The book is divided into the following chapters: biografía del autor, tema y argumento, lista de personajes, resúmenes y comentarios, temas claves de la obra, localización espacial y geográfica, tiempo histórico e interno, análisis detallado de personajes, recursos literarios, vocabulario y aclaración de expresiones difíciles, cronología sumaria, críticas sobre el autor y la obra, talleres y preguntas de repaso, and bibliografía básica.
Santafé de Bogotá, Colombia : Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Instituto Caro y Cuervo
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Library, University of Illinois
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This volume picks up the most important and significant papers presented in the "XX Congreso Nacional de Literatura, Lingüística y Semiótica: Cien años de soledad treinta años después," celebrated in the campus of the National University of Colombia, in Santafé de Bogotá.
Colombia : Fundación General de la Universidad de Salamanca, Sede Colombia
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Library, University of Illinois
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233 p.
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Explores how García Márquez incorporates violent imagery and themes in his work and how this depiction of violence links his narrative to conflict in contemporary Colombia. Prologue by Darío Jaramillo, p.xi-xxii.