"Mike Newell is filming Love in the Time of Cholera in South America's most notorious country, and he is in good company. Maya Jaggi reports on Colombia's film-industry boom."
"Nobel Prize-winner Gabriel García Márquez, who rarely offers glimpses into his private life, says he has stopped writing for the time being, at least."
"Residents of the hometown of Nobel Prize-winning novelist Gabriel García Márquez failed to pass a referendum Sunday to change the town's name to Macondo, the fictitious tropical hamlet in his masterpiece 'One Hundred Years of Solitude.'"
"It was heartening, then, to read the next day of the new Gabriel García Márquez novel, Memories of My Melancholy Whores, which has just gone on sale in the Hispanophone world. García Márquez is 76 and unwell, but his book seems to be about sex,love and age, not age, death and funerals. Its principal character is a retired journalist, just turning 90, who decides to mark his birthday by sleeping with a 14-year old virgin prostitute (the book is set in Colombia in the 1950s, putting plenty of cultural distance between us and the uncomfortable morality of that time and place)."
United States : Asociación de Literatura Femenina Hispánica
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
31(2) : pp. 179-181
Notes:
André unveils different conversations/interviews with Isabel Allende. In one part of an interview, Allende confesses that she was influenced by many "Boom" writers, including García Márquez.
The Times uses the quote "The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast." by Gabriel García Márquez.