"A copy of the Colombian Nobel Prize-winner's new book, Memories of My Melancholy Whores, his first novel after a 10-year hiatus, apparently fell into the wrong hands and was being illegally distributed in the streets before its release date."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
November 6, 2005
Published:
Huston, TX : The Huston Chronicle Publishing Company
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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Zest; 25
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In this review Freeman states that the novel "is not a story about a man who finds eros in the nick of time, but about how much sway the idea of it has over us, even at the end of our days."
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
unknown
Published:
Austin, TX : The Austin American Statesman
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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K5
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"This is the voice that the author found in One Hundred Years of Solitude but the voice that narrates Living to Tell the Tale, the first projected three-volume memoir, is more journalistic, more reminiscent of his earlier works. And that, it turns out, is a stroke of genius."
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.
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
January 6, 2006
Published:
Orange County, CA : OC Weekly, Inc
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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Books; 26
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In the article Bonca states, "García Márquez is in his late 70's now, and his latest work, Memoirs of My Melancholy Whores, is a novella that, like the last few works by Issac Singer, feels at once modest and brazen, magisterial and bizarre, breaking no new ground but summing up a career's worth of imaginative creation in a little fable of head-shakingly absurd sweetness."
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
unknown
Published:
Havana, Cuba : Ediciones ICAICS Martin Luther King, Jr Memorial Center
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
Viewed on January 15, 2008.|Also published in The Nation: www.thenation.com.| "By artistic choice he has instead constructed a memoir as close in form to a novel as perhaps has even been written. It opens with the arrival of his mother in Barranquilla, to take her son- then 22- back with her to sell the family house in Aracataca, on the trip that made him the novelist he became, and ends with the ultimatum he wrote on a plane to Geneva, five years later, that made the elusive sweetheart of his adolescence his future wife."
United States : Center for Black Studies; University of California
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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11(2) : pp. 76-93
Notes:
Maude M. Adjarian interviews Jan J. Dominique. In an answer to an interview question, Dominique states that García Márquez' early work is in her personal library, but not his later work.
"A Place Called Milagro de la Paz" by Manlio Argueta and translated by Michael B. Miller is reviewed." The review states "Although A Place Called Milagro de la Paz contains elements of magical realism-the combination of the supernatural and the meticulously realistic associated with the novelists of the Boom-it lacks the playful, outrageous, tongue-in-cheek quality of the prose of, say, Garcia Marquez."