Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
July, 1999
Published:
UK : BBC News
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
Viewed on 24 January, 2008.|"Actor Antonio Banderas is to follow-up his recent directorial debut with a TV series based on six unpublished stories by Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez."
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
October 26, 2004
Published:
Birmingham, UK : Midland Independent Newspapers PLC
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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"Some 50,000 copies of Memorias de mis putas tristes, the latest novel by Nobel Prize winning author Gabriel García Márquez, went on sale in Venezuela yesterday amid high demand that prompted the publisher to order another 20,000 copies."
Viewed on 28 January, 2008.||Reviews Living to Tell the Tale through a series of collected reviews from sources such as Daily Telegraph, FAZ, The LA Times, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, New Statesman, The NY Times, Newsweek, The Observer, Sydney Morning Herald, and The Washington Post. The overall assessment was of a grade of A: considered an utterly engaging memoir and generally found it very enjoyable.
In discussing Tomas Eloy Martinez, the author states, "He was shortlisted for the first Man Booker International Prize in 2005 and has been garlanded with praise by Gabriel García Márquez, Mario Vargas Llosa and Carlos Fuentes, among others."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
October 19, 2005
Published:
New York, NY : The New York Sun
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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Front Page; 1
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In his review of Gabriel García Márquez's Memories of My Melancholy Whores, Adam Kirsch discusses the controversy around the novel's subject matter. In his article he states that "Mr. García Márquez manages to deflect moral or even psychological judgment on the acts of his characters because the "magic" of his fiction annuls the "realism" that is supposed to go along with it."
This article presents Adam Zagajewski's acceptance speech for his Neustadt International Prize for Literature. He remarks on how much of an honor it is to be part of a list of great authors including Gabriel García Márquez.
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
April, 2003
Published:
Slate, MSN
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
Viewed on 24 January, 2008. ||Waldman states that novels are not selling as one would expect them to, mainly due to the lack of interest from the public in modern novels. Waldman reiterates that people would rather read the classics than read a modern novel; therefore, publishing companies will be spending more money on promoting classics.
"In 2001, Nichols left Bana and opened Macondo Design in Middle Island, which she named after the magical village in 100 years of Solitude, a novel by Gabriel García Márquez. The name struck a cord with Nichols, who said, I help peoples' dreams come true."
Barranquilla Colombia : Fundación Cultural Nueva Música: La Iguana Ciega
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
Gabriel García Márquez is mentioned various times through out the book, specifically on pages 17, 24, 69, 70, 76, 82, 91, 92, 94, 98, 102, and 110-114.
Reviewing El general en su laberinto, Castañon offers that fans and readers of the book were so into the novel, distraught, tired from staying up to finish it, somber, and then went back to reread the novel as characters who were locked in stone and mud. For some, the novel was or is a tribute or a betrayal to Fidel Castro. For others, the novel was about Che Guevara, a symbolic imitation of the failed guerrilla that we all carry inside.
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
October 20, 2004
Published:
Miami, FL : Miami Herald Publishing
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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"En cambio, en la Ciudad de Mexico, donde Random House Mandadori y [Diana] hicieron un tiraje inicial de 100,000 libros, hubo librerías que se ingeniaron formas de recibir desde hace dos días la novela donde Gabo recrea una fascinación literaria que comparte con otros grandes escritores ante un argumento tan suscinto como inquietante: la incursión que hace un anciano en la frontera entre el sueño, el eros, el amor, y la muerte, escoltado por 'el arrullo de la respiración apacible' de una virgen."
"Like the publication of Vivir para contarla, the novel's release came with a few surprises. Previously, Knopf lost thousands of sales for the author's autobiography because illegally imported foreign editions were readily available to his fans in the U.S. To avoid that mistake, the house joined forces with [Gabriel García] Márquez's agent, Carmen Balcells, and the book's other Spanish-language publishers for what was originally a worldwide release on October 27."
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
November, 2002
Published:
New York, NY : F. Leypoldt
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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249(47) : 16
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"Reports that publisher Knopf will release Gabriel García Márquez's Spanish-language autobiography, Vivir para contarla, on December 3, 2002. Initial number of copies to be printed, number of copies sold in Latin American countries."
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
Sep/Oct, 2002
Published:
New York, NY : Críticas
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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2(5) : 14
Notes:
"Provides information on the memoir Vivir para contarla by Gabriel García Márquez. Editorial book houses among which the rights of the memoir written by Márquez was divided. Explanation for the decision of Márquez to divide the rights of the book. Reason for the delay of the release of the memoir."
Spain : Centro de Estudios y Cooperación para América Latina
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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9(21) : pp. 35-52
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Discusses contemporary issues with the analysis of Cervantes and Don Quijote de La Mancha by various writers. Briefly mentions the effect of this classic literature on modern writing, including in "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel García Márquez.
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
December 1, 2005
Published:
Washington, DC : National Public Radio
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
Accessed on 31 January, 2008. Alan Cheuse states, "What he [Gabriel García Márquez} gives us this time around is a memorable love story in a minor, minor key... he falls madly for the girl and finds a new life at an age, as he himself puts it, "when most mortals have already died.""
Viewed on 28 January, 2008.||Colombia is preparing to celebrate Gabriel García Márquez's 70th birthday, an event he will not attend because he said that Colombia "had become an uncomfortable country, uncertain and troubling for a writer," and announced that he was going to exile himself in Mexico.
Alberto Delgado Carlos García Agraz, Jorge Sánchez, Laura Imperiale, Susana Cato, dir., music, prod., and storyline
Format:
Primary source, Audio-visual Materials
Publication Date:
2003, 1990
Published:
Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
"Three weeks before her marriage in 1990, a young woman named Susana has a massive antique mirror hung on her bedroom wall. What is she to think when she discovers a soldier --circa 1863-- living in the room's reflection? And what are her family and fiancée to think, when having fallen deeply in love with him, Susana steps through the glass to enter his bygone world?" -www.films.com
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
November 12, 2005
Published:
London, UK : Guardian Newspapers
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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Guardian Review Pages; 16
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Alberto Manguel discuses the topic of Gabriel García Márquez's Memories of My Melancholy Whores and states that "such stuff can, in the hands of great writers, make for splendid literature... Memories of My Melancholy Whores, however, never seems to extend beyond the mere smutty story."
In discussing the theme of the dictator in many novels and reviewing Daniel Pennace's "The Dictator and the Hammock" the author refers to Gabriel García Márquez and states:
"In 1968, Carlos Fuentes had the idea of compiling an anthology of fictional accounts of Latin American dictators, and asked a number of novelist friends to write about a dictator from their own country. They had, alas, what the French call 'the embarrassment of choice.' Though the project never materialized, several writers took up his suggestion. Years later, Augusto Roa Bastos published I the Supreme and Gabriel García Márquez, whose native Colombia was one of the few countries not to boast (or bemoan) a dictator, invented a composite figure for the protagonist of his Autumn of the Patriarch. These were not the first attempts at describing what García Márquez once called 'the only mythological figure Latin America has produced.'"
United States : Asociacion de Literatura Femenina Hispanica
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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28(2) : pp. 137-157
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Analyzes and reviews "El aire tan dulce", by Elvira Orphée. Mentions that her work is similar to the Magical Realism of Gabriel García Márquez, but is in fact existentialist.
Secondary source, Reviews of Books About Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2004
Published:
United States : Latin American Studies Association
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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39(2) : pp. 155-163
Notes:
Reviews "Before and after the Boom: Recent Scholarship on Latin American Literary and Cultural Studies," by Elizabeth Coonrod Martínez. Discusses the chapters in the work dedicated to "Boom" writers such as Gabriel García Márquez.
"Using the analysis applied to a short fragment of the novel One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez as a basis, the author proposes to expose the elements which constitute the process of paternalization (knowledge, bisexuality, narcissism, Œdipal complex, identifications, parricide, the earth, woman and negative work). In conclusion, the author proposes several hypotheses concerning possible extensions of the concept of filiation."--Scopus
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
2002
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
Boese notes the rumors to which Gabriel García Márquez has been subject since 1999, including those of a farewell poem, "La Marioneta," being sent out to his closest friends on account of his worsening condition, when in reality he had not written the poem."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
December 17, 2005
Published:
Ontario, Canada : Toronto Star Newspapers
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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Books; C4
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"In the recently published first volume of his memoirs, Living to Tell the Tale, Gabriel García Márquez makes it clear right from the beginning that his autobiography won't just be about what really happened. His memory of events is in various places irreconcilable with "the facts." It is an old magical realist's dream of the past, not an attempt at historical recovery. Memories of My Melancholy Whores is a short novel, a novella really, written in much the same spirit."
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
February, 2004
Published:
Ontario, Canada : Toronto Star Newspapers, Ltd.
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
C4
Notes:
"You wouldn't expect the autobiography of Nobel Prize-winner Gabriel García Márquez to be just another life story. After all, this is the fellow who made magic realism into a literary brand. You know he has tricks up his sleeve... This isn't going to be just the facts. Living to Tell the Tale is a life reconstructed in the imagination." -Good
In this article, news staffer Alex Neth compiles a list of romantic literature recommended by community members. Gabriel García Márquez's "Love in the Time of Cholera" was one of the books listed and discussed.
San Juan, Puerto Rico : Fundación Puertorriqueña de las Humanidades
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
Originally presented as the author's Master's thesis. Could be used as a guide for reading Crónica de una muerte anunciada. Contains an extensive bibliography.
Grohmann mentions García Márquez's comment, written in his autobiography Vivir para contarla, that newspaper editorials are more a form of literature than of journalism.
Hildensheim, Zürich, and New York : Georg Olms Verlag
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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297p.
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Includes the following relevant articles: "¿Descolonización de la historia? El caso de la novela histórica en la región norteandina" by Brigitte König pp. 51-72; and "¿Descolonización de la historia? El caso de la historiografía en la región norteandina" by Hans-Joachim König pp. 27-49.
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
(May 2004)
Published:
Washington, D.C. : Washington Times Corp.
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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19(5) : pp. 224-228
Notes:
This is a review of Gabriel García Márquez's memoirs "Living to Tell the Tale." The author states "In his first volume of his memoirs, Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez chronicles how memories enable one to re-experience and reinvent the past."
"The writer contends that Colombian author and Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez presents a dismal social portrait of Latin America in several of his books, including the first volume of his memoirs, Living to Tell the Tale."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
October 29, 2005
Published:
Edinburgh, Scotland : The Scotsman Publications
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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9
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In this review of Gabriel García Márquez's Memories of My Melancholy Whores Allan Massie states that "The novella is really a meditation on old age, that time of life when reality itself can appear, as the narrator remarks, "fantastic"...The old may feel as intensely as they ever did in their youth. But what they feel seems in them incredible, absurd, or disgusting to those who have not yet arrived at the summit from which the read leads precipitously downhill to the grave."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
November 9, 2005
Published:
Salon.com
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
In this article Allen Barra reviews Memories of My Melancholy Whores and also discusses the controversy around the book's plot, stating, "The relationship between the old man and the pubescent girl is giving some critics conniption fits. For instance, Adam Kirsch in the New York Sun: "That Mr. García Márquez expects the reader to salute an ancient man's victory over a child rather than see it as pathetic or monstrous, is the latest measure of his fiction's heroic contempt for reality."" He then goes on to state that "it seems a little late in the game to sic the p.c. police on the creator of Colonel Aureliano Buendia, who, in "One Hundred Years of Solitude," published in 1967, sired 17 sons by 17 different women. And why, one wonders, are so many critics upset? Because the old man pays for his time with the girl? Perhaps because they want the strange relationship to be consummated?"
Presents an excerpt from the book "La mansión de Arautcaíma," by Álvaro Mutis. The article also mentions that Gabriel García Márquez, a long time friend, has positive criticism about his work.
Madrid, Spain : Insula, Librería, Ediciones y Publicaciones, S.A.
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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62(723) : pp. 9-12
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"Uno de los rasgos más característicos de la obra de Gabriel García Márquez - y de los menos comentados - es su extraño recorrido inverso. Normalmente, la trayectoria de un escritor suele ir desde un periodo inicial, de aprendizaje e imitación en el que se practican ciertos modelos literarios establecidos y se homenajea a los grandes maestros de la tradición, hasta un momento de madurez en el que, poco a poco, y habitualmente con lentitud y dudas, el autor contruye su propio mundo. En el caso del maestro colombiano, como digo, el recorrido ha sido el inverso, García Márquez inicia su trayectoria literaria con la obsesión por la construcción de un mundo, el mundo mítico de Macondo, y a esa obsesión están dedicadas sus primeras obras, 'La Hojarasca,' 'El coronel no tiene quien le escriba,' 'Los funerales de la Mamá Grande,' 'La mala Hora'..., hasta conseguir recrearlo en su obra maestra 'Cien años de soledad.'"
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
July-September, 2002
Published:
Barranquilla, Colombia : La casa de Asterión
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
3(10)
Notes:
Viewed on 24 January, 2008.||Interview with Gustavo Ibarra Merlano about García Márquez. Begins with a brief description of how Ibarra and García Márquez met. He provides a surplus of details about García Márquez and his education and what kind of person he was when they met. Then, the interviewer, asks Ibarra to compare La hojarasca to Antigone, who points out that they are similar because they both discuss power relations.
Secondary source, Reviews of Books About Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
Nov 2002
Published:
Chile : Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Instituto de Letras
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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31 : p. 177-180
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Chaverri reviews María Lourdes Cortés' book Amor y tración: cine y literatura en América, in which Cortés analyzes issues related to the translation of literature to film, focusing in particular on the works of five Latin American writers who are considered part of the "Boom." She includes among them Gabriel García Márquez's Crónica de una muerte anunciada.
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
October 2005
Published:
United States : Hispanic Publishing Corp.
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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18(10) : pp. 70-71
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Ambar Hernández reviews: "The Scorpion's Tale," by Sylvia Torti; "Memories of My Melancholy Whores," by Gabriel García Márquez; "Ball Don't Lie," by Matt de la Peña.
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2002
Published:
Bucaramanga, Colombia : Universidad Industrial de Santander
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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15, 233, 267, 272, 273, 275, 276, 342, 357, 3
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Through Gabriel García Márquez's writings, specifically El general en su laberinto, the author attempts to facilitate the reader's understanding of who Simon Bolívar was.
Madrid, Spain : Insula, Librería, Ediciones y Publicaciones, S.A.
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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62(723) : pp. 6
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"Bercht en 'Los negocios del señor Junio César' nos decía que los grandes hombres se han esforzado siempre por ocultar el verdadero móvil de sus actos. Sin lugar a dudas, Julio César era un gran hombre, y quizás por esta razón García Márquez habría de afirmar que aprendió mucho de él, esto es, que aprehendió los modos de actuación que adoptó su fascinante delirio de dictador. García Márquez hubiera quierido crear un personaje como el Julio César en la literatura (1), pero Roma no es el Caribe y sus dictafores no son [grandes hombres]. Lo único que permanece invariable en ambos casos es el enigma del poder, su delirio. Entonces, la pregunta se precipita: por quéno se cuentan siempre las mismas historias del mismo modo?"
Carrillo analyzes the essay "Latitud de la flor" by Hispanic writer, philosopher, and politician Mario Prayeras. Carrillo also notes that much of his writing resonates voices of other writers, including Gabriel García Márquez, who worked in virgin territories that opposed the modern logic of the state.
"This article is about the role of García Márquez and particularly macondismo as an ideology in establishing the canonic validity of vallenato as a folk genre from the Colombian Caribbean. García Márquez's chronicles of the early 1950's are seen as foundational texts on the aesthetics and value of vallenato; texts which influence subsequent writings on the topic. One of the main topics explored is how these texts acquire canonic validity through the success of One Hundred Years of Solitude. It is then that macondismo - the Latin Americanist celebration of magical realism - becomes an interpretive metaphor for Colombia, and vallenato music becomes the sonorous emblem of this metaphor. This occurs through García Márquez's writings, his multiple interventions in Colombian vallenato festivals, and the way vallenato is subsequently taken by a journalistic elite of the country as representing a macondian sonorous paradigm. The article explores how these different elements coalesce in constructing a genealogy of aurality for vallenato, setting the parameters of its interpretive significance through multiple processes of folklorisation of the genre."
Secondary source, Reviews of Books About Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2000
Published:
Riverside, CA : University of California, Riverside
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
"This dissertation demonstrates generic dislocation as a constant in the short fiction of three contemporary Latin American writers: Julio Ramón Ribeyro, Gabriel García Márquez, and Augusto Monterroso. In the work of these three authors, the short story does not denote a text with fixed characteristics. Rather, it indicates a textual space for diverse expressive possibilities, even though the category "short story" continues to be pertinent in its instrumental value. This analysis of stories by the mentioned authors indicates that generic subversion also nurtures a play on the boundaries among different types of writing... In the works of Gabriel García Márquez, genres played which include: the autobiography, travel books, theater programs, the police report, and oral narrative."
"Bosnian film director Emir Kusturica joined Gabriel García Márquez on Monday at the opening of a workshop the famed Colombian writer is giving at Cuba's International School of Cinema and Television."
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
May 25, 2004
Published:
New York, NY : The New York Times
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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153(52860) : E1
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Bast focuses on the life and work of translator Gregory Rabassa, his translation of Rayuela, an experimental 1963 novel by Argentine author Julio Cortázar, and his completion of his PhD in Portuguese at Columbia University. He was awarded the first National Book Award for translation in 1967. Mr. Rabassa has done English translationS of such authors as Jorge Amado, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Gabriel García Márquez. Bast also mentions the publication of Mr. Rabassa's autobiography.
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
November 20, 2005
Published:
Edinburgh, Scotland : The Scotsman Publications
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
7
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After discussing the novel, Andrew Crumey concludes that "like Goethe's novella The Man Of Fifty, this book is about growing older and feeling limper. Marquez's comments on the subject, however, are disappointingly trite. "Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel". Even Peter Stringfellow has managed to say it more eloquently than that."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
October 23, 2005
Published:
London, UK : Times Newspapers Limited
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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Culture; 53
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In this review of Gabriel García Márquez's novel Memories of My Melancholy Whores, Andrew Holgate states that "those anxious about the 78-year-old Colombian Nobel Laureate's continued vigour as a fiction writer will not have their anxieties allayed by this new novel. In size, style and subject matter, this is a work suffused with a sense of exhaustion."
Amsterdam : Centre for Latin American Research and Documentation
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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72 : pp. 115-122
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András Inotai documents the rise of Latin American studies in Hungary. The article states that "the last twenty-five years are witness to the publication of more than 100 books of Latin American literature, half of which has been published within the last twelve years," including Gabriel García Márquez.
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.
Madrid, Spain : Insula, Librería, Ediciones y Publicaciones, S.A
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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62(723) : pp. 28
Notes:
"'Soy escritor por timidez. Mi verdadera vocación es la del prestidigitador, pero me ofusco tanto tratando de hacer un truco, que he tenido que refugiarme en la soledad de la literatura.' Estas palabras perpetadas por el Nobel como un acto mismo de timidez, revelan muchas mentiras."
Madrid, Spain : Insula, Librería, Ediciones y Publicaciones, S.A.
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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62(723) : pp. 24-26
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"Lo que más eleva al hombre por encima de cualquier ser es la capacidad para traer constantemente al recuerdo, y hacer vivas, las experiencias pasadas, o bien inventarlas. García Márquez es consciente de ello y por eso decidió, desde muy joven, dedicar su vida a contar."
"Deals with migration and worldview in salsa music. Information on the book "All-American Music, Composition in the Late Twentieth Century," by John Rockwell, former music critic; Immigration during the 1930s and the rise of American art music; Details of the music career of musician Eddie Palmieri." Briefly mentions García Márquez, who praises the salsa composition "Pedro Navaja."
Medellín, Colombia : Editorial Universidad de Antioquia
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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436
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"Este cursillo va a tratar de una tésis sobre la formación de la literatura, apoyada fundamentalmente en textos de la novelística de García Márquez, lo cual indica usar un tanto a García Márquez como ejemplo para la demostración de una teoría literaria. Ahora bien, los textos fundamentales que vamos a trabajar son 'La hojarasca', 'El coronel no tiene quién le escriba', y 'Cien años de soledad'; además usaremos, desde luego, algunos otros materiales que pertenecen a cuentos o diversas fuentes e informaciones que reseñaré directamente y por extenso si es necesario."
Rama discusses the process of transculturation in Latin American narrative, which occurred when the urban, modernist literary movements of fantastic and critical realist literature challenged the prevailing regionalist literary movement in the 1930s. Although initially hostile to this foreign and urban encroachment, regionalist authors developed a literature that rearticulated their cultural structure but maintained its rural orientation, thus enacting a model of "cultural plasticity" in which the traditional and the new are integrated. The modernist interest in fantastic literature, for example, led regionalist authors to reexamine mythical sources that had been hidden by their preference for social realism. A brief reading of works by Jose Maria Arguedas, Juan Rulfo, Joáo Guimaráes Rosa, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez exemplifies this process of transculturation.
"'All the great writers have good eyes' is a sentence by V. Nabokov that is very suitable for G.G. Márquez and his One Hundred Years of Solitude. The novel, published in 1967, introduces among many others, the character of little Rebeca, whose frailness and greenish skin revealed hunger 'that was older than she was'. The girl, because of a pica syndrome, only liked to eat earth and the cake of whitewash. But her fate appears to be determined by the lethal insomnia plague, whose most fearsome part was not the impossibility of sleeping but its inexorable evolution toward a loss of memory in which the sick person 'sinks into a kind of idiocy that had no past'. Rebeca's lethal insomnia looks quite similar to the 'peculiar, fatal disorder of sleep' originally described by Lugaresi et al. in 1986. One Hundred Years of Solitude shows that G.G. Márquez was gifted not only with good eyes, but has the seductive power of changing reality into fantasy, while transforming his visions into reality."-- Scopus
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
October 23, 2004
Published:
New York, NY : Associated Press
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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International News
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"President Fidel Castro, recovering from a fall that broke his kneecap and arm, has received get-well wishes from the leaders around the globe, state media reported Saturday. Presidents Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva of Brazil, Nestor Kirchner of Argentina and Sam Nujoma sent their wishes, along with Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez and Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi. Presidents Vicente Fox of Mexico, Ricardo Lagos of Chile and Martin Torrijos of Panama also sent their regards, said the Communist Party daily."
"The film version of [Jorge] Franco's second novel, "Rosario tijeras," just opened in Colombia, where it has been doing boffo business. Franco is the biggest-selling author from Colombia since Nobel Prize winner Gabriel García Márquez."
Lewis suggests several books that have been especially selected for their currency of pertinence to events or people in the news. These include Teaching as a Subversive Activity by Postman and Charles Weingartner, Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich, and One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez.
Secondary source, Reviews of Books About Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2003
Published:
Toronto, Canada : University of Toronto
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
"This study explores the representation of women in contemporary magic realist texts from Latin America, English Canada, and Quebec. From a feminist standpoint, it examines how men and women writers represent women characters in texts that allegorically use supernatural power to denaturalize social power. Intracultural and intercultural considerations of these New World texts reveal shared approaches, both positive and negative, to women's identities and roles. In the more progressive works - Isabel Allende's La casa de los espíritus, Jack Hodgin's The Invention of the World, Anne Hérbert's Les fous de Bassan, and Michel Tremblay's La grosse femme d" à côté est enceinte- women characters use naturalized supernaturalism (defined as the casual presence of the supernatural in the natural world) to affirm feminine subjectivity and freedom. The assumption of mythic forms or an engagement with the occult can give a female character mobility, spiritual freedom, and pleasure. But the power figuratively expressed through the supernatural is denied women in Gabriel García Márquez's Cien años de soledad, Sheila Watson's The Double Hook, Anne Hérbert's "L"ange de Dominique," and Jack Ferron's L"amélanchier.
This article lists the Neustadt Laureates from 1970 through 2006. It also lists the Puterbaugh Fellows from 1968 through 2005. Gabriel García Márquez was a 1972 Laureate.
Discusses social, cultural, and political aspects of modern Colombia. Quotes and refers to Gabriel García Márquez in discussing the potential for the future of Colombia.
Américas documents reader comments on certain articles. One reader comments on the rich source of literary information on authors such as García Márquez.
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
October 23, 2004
Published:
Canberra, Australia : The Federal Capital Press of Australia
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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19
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"The Booker Prize, under fire for concentrating on fashionable and quirky writers, will attempt to regain its reputation for high seriousness with the launch of the "super Booker," a worldwide search for the living greats of fiction... The Independent understands that the reading list for the inaugural international prize - compiled at a recent secret meeting in Rome - already includes V.S. Naipul, the 2001 Nobel prize-winner from Trinidad; Margaret Atwood, the Canadian who won the Booker in 2000; John Updike, the Pulitzer prize-winner; Gabriel García Márquez, the master of magic realism; and Philip Roth, whose collected works are soon to appear in a Library of America edition."
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2004
Published:
Dominguez Hills, CA : California State University
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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“There have been various interpretations of the work of García Márquez. However, no detailed study has been made of the huge significance of temporality to his art. This thesis argues that García Márquez’ novels are complex considerations of humankind’s relation to time, and that time is an inherent and constitutive property of the art and meaning of his texts. To demonstrate the validity of this proposition this thesis examines structure, strategy and thematic concern and their interrelation in relation to temporality. It is, thus, divided into five sections: a brief introductory contextualization of recent critical debate concerning the relationship between temporality and narrative; an analysis of the temporal structure of García Márquez’ most important novels and how this relates to the overall meaning of his specific consideration of the temporal narrative strategies that García Márquez adopts and why these are significant to an understanding of his work; an evaluation of temporal themes in García Márquez and their centrality to his work; and a concluding section which examines the interrelation between structure, strategy and theme to demonstrate the crucial importance of temporality to a comprehensive understanding of the fiction of García Márquez.”
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
March 2005
Published:
Wellesley, MA : KLIATT
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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39(2) : 34
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In this review of García Márquez's "Living to Tell the Tale" Pucci states that "this book provides a unique opportunity to follow the development of one of the most important writers of the 20th century."
Viu chronicles Jorge Guzman's narrative history. In his writings, Guzman describes the literature and writers who influenced him when he was young, including Gabriel García Márquez and his work, "Cien Años de Soledad."
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2007
Published:
Ohio, United States : Ohio State University
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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262 p.
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(Abstract) "Alejo Carpentier's theory of 'lo real maravilloso americano' gave shape to the 'interpretative community' of the Latin American 'Boom'--which dovetailed authors such as Gabriel García Márquez, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Julio Cortázar among others. Like a boomerang sent into the future, this identity 'propuesta de significado,' or proposition of meaning, was thought to be miraculously embodied by the Cuban Revolution...The transnational cross-border encounters of the 'Boom' shaped and contributed to a (post)modernization of the Spanish 'imaginario patrio' and induced a feeling of anxiety that revolutionized the relations between Spanish authors and 'their' inherited tradition and language." Ph.D Dissertation
"In commemoration of the four hundredth anniversary of the publication of part 1 of Don Quijote , Spanish author Antonio Muñoz Molina prepared the comments on the novel. Molina presented his remarks at the New York Public Library on April 16, 2005, during a program billed as 'Don Quixote at 400: A Tribute'." The article comments on how the most recent and critically acclaimed version of Don Quijote was rendered by Edith Grossman who translated works by various Spanish-Language writers, including Gabriel García Márquez.
Anushiya; Wray Sivanarayanan, Grady C.; Terdiman, Richard; Wendland, Ann; Nash, and Susan Smith
Format:
Secondary source, Miscellaneous
Publication Date:
January-April 2004
Published:
United States : World Literature Today
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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78(1) : p. 71
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Presents letters to the editor referencing articles and topics discussed in previous issues. July-September issue which features Colombian writer Álvaro Mutis; "What is World Literature?" which discussed the three general conceptions of literature; "Poetry and Freedom," which focused on poetry as a medium of sidestepping life's constraints; "Of Pygmies on the Shores of Modernity," which discussed Latin American literary generations. Briefly mentions Gabriel García Márquez in relation to Latin American Literature in India.
Madrid, Spain : Insula, Librería, Ediciones y Publicaciones, S.A.
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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62(723) : pp. 16-18
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"A lo largo de la extensa obra de Gabriel García Márquez el tema amoroso se has hecho presente de manera cada vez más significativa, desde los [amores difíciles] que, entre muchos otros cataclismos, sufren los personajes de 'Cien años de soledad' (1967), hasta los no menos arduos amores que ocupan el centro de las tres novelas que el maestro colombiano ha dedicado con exclusividad a ese tema: 'Cronica de una muerte anunciada' (1981), 'El amor en los tiempos de cholera' (1985), y 'Del amor y otros demonios' (1994)."
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
March 2004
Published:
New York, NY : New York University
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
"The purpose of this study is to explore the intersection of literature and illness in order to demonstrate that the disease metaphor is an effective trope for Latin American authors seeking to represent topics that have been culturally and historically pathologized in both national society and/or literature. It analyzes the way the rhetoric of the somatic for pathological was used at the end of the 19th century. It also traces the development of this rhetoric into the following century. The dissertation begins with an overview of general literary theory, dealing with an overview of general literary theory and with disease and representation, focusing on Susan Sontag, Julia Epstein and Sander Gilman. It offers a linguistic perspective on the functioning of metaphor as well. By bringing the ideas of medical historian, Charles Rosenberg, to bear on this linguistic discussion, the author defines the notion of the frame and framing. Frames can be understood as being parallel to the concept of the artist's convention; they are constructs that inform the perception of diseases as both a biological event and a social occurrence. Tuberculosis, cholera, and sexually transmitted diseases (AIDS in particular) are the illnesses central to this study. The Latin American writers: Abraham Valdelomar, Manuel Puig, Gabriel García Márquez and Reinaldo Arenas employ metaphors with these diseases in order to engage specific socio-historic material via frames. Each of the three chapters concentrates on a theme that has come to serve as the basis for framing the various diseases; (homo)sexuality, gender, modernization, totalitarianism and plague. These same themes have also been recognized by various literary critics as essential to thinking and problematizing the construction of Latin American identity."
Secondary source, Reviews of Books About Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2003
Published:
New York, NY : New York University
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
"The purpose of this study is to explore the intersection of literature and illness in order to demonstrate that disease metaphor is an effective tope for Latin American authors seeking to represent topics that have been culturally and historically pathologized in both national society and/or literature. It analyzes the way the rhetoric of the somatic for pathological was used at the end of the 19th century. It also traces the development of this rhetoric into the following century. The dissertation begins with an overview of general literary theory dealing with diseases and representation focusing on Susan Sontag, Julia Epstein, and Sander Gilman. It offers a linguistic perspective on the functioning of metaphor as well. By bringing the ideas of medical historian Charles Rosenberg to bear on this linguistic discussion the author defines the notion of the frame and framing. Frames can be understood as parallel to the concept of the artist's convention- constructs that inform the perception of disease as both a biological event and a social occurrence. Tuberculosis, cholera, and sexually transmitted diseases (AIDS in particular) are the illnesses central to this study. The Latin American writers Abraham Valdelomar, Manuel Puig, Gabriel García Márquez, and Reinaldo Arenas employ metaphors with these diseases in order to engage specific socio-historic material via frames."
Viewed on July 8, 2004.||In homage to George Simenon, master of the police thriller, this article provides commentary on this book that brings together two tales, one of Gabriel García Márquez on a story of Simenon, and the other a tale written by Simenon.
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
2003
Published:
Valencia, Spain : Quaderns Digitals
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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This article mentions details of Gabriel García Márquez's memoirs, beginning with the initial scene of García Márquez going to Aracataca with his mother to sell the house of his grandparents where he was born. Memoirs and autobiographies have this common zone in the memory which allows us to forget, rewrite, and invent. In the case of García Márquez, the richness of his life has been reflected in the worlds he creates in his novels. It's the gaze of the Colombian writer toward his life, toward the people related to him, that appears in his autobiography and delights the reader with how his stories and novels occur. He also does self-analysis in his book.
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
July-September, 2002
Published:
Barranquilla, Colombia : La Casa de Asterion
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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3(10)
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Viewed 24 January, 2008.|In a conversation of paradoxical permanence with the last foreign member of the Barranquilla group, Jacques Gilard, the narrator Marvel Moreno affirms: In Barranquilla everything disappears. The humidity and the termites eat the books, objects, and furniture. The houses are abandoned or collapse by themselves. There is no sense of continuity of the type that emanates from European cities, no trace of the men who worked to create the world into which we were born.
Celayo discusses the Love and Rockets series, which has been critically acclaimed to be the "graphic equivalent" of Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez.
Viewed on 29 January, 2008. "Madrid, 6 de marzo. Gabriel García Márquez y Miguel de Cervantes Saacedra comparten a partir de hoy, además de la inmortalidad como clásicos de la literatura universal, una nueva condición: son los únicos escritores que han recibido como homenaje en España la lectura de viva voz e ininterrumpida de su obra cumbre."
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
February, 1996
Published:
Bogotá, Colombia
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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2-3
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Merengue: Ya te vas Sierva María/Te vas pa" tierra lejana/ Te vas morenita mía/Sin saber como me dejas|Paseo: De Puerto Antioquia pa" arriba hasta Yarumal/cuando salió Germán Serna en correduría/apenas que recordaba a Sierva María/me daban aquellas ganas de regresar.