Viewed on 28 January, 2008. ||New York Magazine reviews the book Living to Tell the Tale by Gabriel García Márquez, by saying, "The first part of a planned trilogy, covering the Colombian-born magical realist's first 29 years, arrive in translation already a Spanish-language best seller. Fans will find the seeds of many a setting and story, but the real fun might be in spotting Márquez's acknowledged embellishments."
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Library, University of Illinois
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"Literary powerhouse Gabriel García Márquez is at the height of his powers in Living to Tell the Tale, the first in a projected autobiographical trilogy. The volume ends in the 1950s, when he was in his early 30s, set to test whether he could succeed as a writer and be "one of the great ones." A Montreal Gazette reviewer wrote that readers will relish the chance to "sift the Colombian author's life for the seeds of his magic realism, and the master doesn't disappoint.""
"Tracing his personal history through the 1950s, Márquez applies the same skill and lyricism he demonstrates in his fiction to the genre of autobiography. The first in a series of three volumes chronicling his remarkable career, Living to Tell the Tale is a fluid, fascinating account of the Nobel Laureate's upbringing in Colombia and his development as a writer."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
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2005
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Lincoln, NE : University of Nebraska Press
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Library, University of Illinois
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(79.1) : 189-193
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In his review Townley states that, "His long awaited memoir, Living to Tell the Tale, the first in a planned autobiographical trilogy, is a richly imagined volume, brimming with lush description and historical immediacy. And if the author has, over the course of his seventy-five magical years, succumbed to those ineluctable lapses in memory, we're certainly none the wiser. And it wouldn't matter anyway: as García Márquez writes in the book's epigraph, "Life is not what one lived, but what one remembers and how one remembers it in order to recount it."" Townley also states that, "unlike many contemporary autobiographies, this one does not indulge in postmodern fripperies. Instead, García Márquez offers a "traditional" memoir: one recounted through the first person in the past tense, in a voice both warm and conversational."
"The first in the trilogy of the Columbian Nobel Laureate's memoirs spans 28 years, from his parents' courtship and marriage through his birth in 1927... to his early career as a journalist."
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
August, 2003
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México DF, México : El Universal
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Library, University of Illinois
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Reports that the translation in Portuguese of Vivir para contarla, the first volume of the memoirs of the Colombian Nobel laureate, Gabriel García Márquez, will arrive in Brazilian bookstores by early September, 2003.
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
October, 2004
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La Paz, Bolivia : La Razón
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Library, University of Illinois
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The novel, Memoria de mis putas tristes, was launched worldwide on October 20, 2004. For the author, there are customs that cannot be ignored. That is why the original of this new novel arrived first to the hands of his friend, and also author, Álvaro Mutis.
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
Oct. 2001
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Colombia : Ediciones Foro Nacional por Colombia
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Library, University of Illinois
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42 : pp. 5-16
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Ospina writes that much of Colombian identity is expressed best by García Márquez. He says, "En él convergieron en una síntesis feliz muchas obras de la literatura mundial y muchas de nuestra tradición literaria y artística..."