"El polvoriento municipio colombiano donde hace 78 años nació el Nobel Gabriel García Márquez continuará llamandose Aracataca y no Macondo, como quería su alcalde."
"Quien diría que un buen día Macondo estaría a punto de pasar de las páginas del realismo mágico a las páginas del registro geográfico. Eso es lo que intenta conseguir el alcalde de Aracataca, pueblo ubicado en el Caribe colombiano - a más de 600 km al norte de Bogotá - y lugar de nacimiento del escritor Gabriel García Márquez en 1928."
High-school Spanish teacher Graciella Napoles comments, in an letter to the editor, on her use of One Hundred Years of Solitude in the classroom and clarifies that it was not Melquiades, but another gypsy who showed Buendía and his family the ice.
Santiago de Chile, Chile : Editorial Universidad Católica
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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30 : p66
Notes:
"El presente trabajo es parte del Seminario de Graduación del Depto. de Castellano en esta Universidad titulado 'Cien años de soledad, una novela mítica'. El seminario fue dirigido por la Prof. Adriana Valdés y en él participaron las siguientes alumnas: Sara Almarza, Inés Araya, Carmen Foxley, M. Elena Rodríguez, M. Isabel Spoerer, Marta Ulfe y Carmen Avaria."
Celayo discusses the Love and Rockets series, which has been critically acclaimed to be the "graphic equivalent" of Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez.
Kowalski discusses the purchase of Cambio 16, a Colombian magazine by Gabriel García Márquez and a group of journalists. He also brings out the financial problems suffered by the magazine. Concludes with comments from the magazine's publisher Patricia Lara."
Austin, TX : African-American and Afro-American Studies and Research Center, University of Texas
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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37(1) : 28
Notes:
The author engages García Márquez and his work in her discussion of magical realism. The abstract reads as follows: "Congolese novelist Sony Labou Tansi has been widely celebrated as a leader in the revival of francophone African letters that took place in the 1980's. In the process, commentators have repeatedly insisted on affiliating him with the tradition of magical realism. Using his first novel, "La vie et demie" [Life and a Half], as a case study, this essay argues that this exclusive focus on magical realism at the expense of other, perhaps more significant, literary traditions (such as science fiction) continues to be a problematic misreading of the novel. Ultimately, this conceptualization of Tansi's literary output once again reduces the African writer to a conduit for endless reiterations of a reified irrationality- precisely the role that Labou Tansi, by introducing science fiction into his narrative, seeks to escape."
Pearl reviews the fiction book One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez, presenting us with a brief summary of the plot and commenting that One Hundred Years of Solitude "records the tumultuous lives of the Buendia family and the town's other inhabitants in a compulsive narrative that follows their loves, madnesses, wars, alliances, compromises, dreams, and deaths-- sweeping us up in its exquisite and poetic rendering of the passions and the pains of life."
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
November, 2002
Published:
City Pages
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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23(1144)
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Viewed on 24 January, 2008.||"Put it this way: Gabriel García Márquez would never get a job with PBS. He could never follow the Universal clock: the broadcasting rule that all documentaries must fit in a 52-minute slot."