United States : North American Congress on Latin America
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Library, University of Illinois
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33(6) : pp. 34-42
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Coronil mentions García Márquez's perspective on Hugo Chavez's future as a revolutionary leader. He is quoted as saying, "I was overwhelmed by the feeling that I had just been traveling and chatting pleasantly with two opposing men. One to whom the caprices of fate had given an opportunity to save his country. The other, an illusionist, who could pass into the history books as just another despot.."
"Zakes Mda's previous novels have been compared, flatteringly, to the work of Gabriel García Márquez and to Chinua Achebe's classic "Things Fall Apart.""
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
January, 2004
Published:
Columbia, MO : Ciberayllu
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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Viewed on 24 January, 2008.|Hood recollects that in 1986 when he began writing his doctoral dissertation about the narrative work of Gabriel García Márquez, he traveled to Colombia to experience first hand the land that had given birth to García Márquez and his work.
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
July-September, 2003
Published:
World Literature Today
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Library, University of Illinois
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23-27
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"The two most successful novelists in the history of Colombian literature, both in terms of critical acclaim and in terms of prizes won, are two old friends, Álvaro Mutis and Gabriel García Márquez, who have known each other for more than half a century."
The author states " Marasmo es el largometraje número trece de la historia del cine nacional –número cabalístico- ¿de buena o mala suerte?, el filme marca una nueva etapa en la cinematografía del país."
Read discusses Bucheli's Bananas and Business and the negative reputation the United Fruit Company has. He states that "This interpretation came early to Colombian critics after a 1928 massacre of striking workers left hundreds, maybe thousands, dead. Gabriel García Márquez exaggerated the details of this violence for One Hundred Years of Solitude, and few others have believed the company did more good than harm."
Studies Mariano Picon Salas and his writings. Discusses his intellectual and humanistic qualities and his various influences in writing, critiquing, and developing essays. Briefly compares his historical works to other other authors including "Miguel Otero Silva y Arturo Uslar Pietri, Francisco Herrera Luque, Denzil Romero, Mario Vargas Llosa and Gabriel García Márquez."
Cesar Ferreira reviews "Bases Para Una Interpretacion de Ruben Dario," by Mario Vargas Llosa. He notes that Llosa "has proved his talent as a literary critic as well in books such as 'Garcia Marquez: historia de un deicidio' (1971)."
"When reciting the many qualities of Gabriel García Márquez's writing, critics invariably include his humor. Unfortunately, when readers have to read works in translation, they often miss much of the richness of the original work, including the humor. However, Gregory Rabassa's English translation of García Márquez still provides many linguistic pleasures, not the least of which is the discovery of symbolic repetitions and of the multilayered references submerged within an apparently simple sentence-particularly those that begin the different chapters. Indeed, this joy of discovery often erupts in outright guffawing when we realize that the devilish author frequently turns the references ironically on our expectations and even, on occasion, deliberately misleads us."