Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
November 20, 2005
Published:
Portland, OR : The Sunday Oregonian
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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Sunday Features; O20
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In her review Sarah Cypher states that "readers familiar with the eccentric ornamentation in García Márquez's other fiction will not find it here. But because the author is a master of his genre, magic and portent nevertheless glitter through the novel's plain weave, infusing images with the weight of symbols in an allegory. Which, thankfully, they are not. The novel is nimble and brief, and it uses the transformational power of love to rise above moralism."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
December 24, 2004
Published:
London, UK : Economist Newspaper Ltd
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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373(8404) : 85
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This article is a review of Gabriel García Márquez's 'Memories of My Melancholy Whores.' The article states "Absurd? Yes, and so brief that the reader feels short-changed. Even so, the book is beautifully executed, and it had a sort of moral. Great loves often force people to confront unpleasant truths about themselves, but since the great love in this case is not available for comment, the rebirth is entirely the old man's work. A re-examination is always possible, the author seems to say: all one needs is the trigger."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
October 22, 2005
Published:
London, UK : Times Newspapers Limited
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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Books; 16
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In reviewing Gabriel García Máquez's novel Memories of My Melancholy Whores, Ruth Scurr states that the book "depicts a respected journalist, breaking the rules of a lifetime to fall madly, anarchically, transgressively in love with a 14-year-old girl on the eve of his 90th birthday."
Viewed on 28 January, 2008.||"As it implies, Gabriel García Márquez's widely acclaimed Love in the Time of Cholera is a creative amalgam of two starkly contrasting elements: the sacredness of love and love's embodiment in often horrific, everyday experience. Ultimately, the transcendental power of spiritual love emerges as the beautifully rendered theme of this evocative, paradoxical masterwork."
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."
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?"
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
October 30, 2005
Published:
Hartford, CT : The Hartford Courant
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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Arts; G3
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In discussing the unusual topic of the book Leblanc states that "some readers will be distressed by the sexual mores of this story, and they may not be able to see it primarily as a tale of love and aging. Worse, they may not see that García ultimately celebrates love, which can conquer solitude, instead of sex, which cannot."
"At 76, Gabriel García Márquez, as Gabriel García Márquez is known in the Spanish-speaking world, has written an erotic novella about an affair between an old man and a pubescent girl, set in Colombian coastal town reminiscent of Barranquilla. The unnamed protagonist is a bachelor who for decades has lived alone (with the exception of a veteran maid) in his parents' house and who makes his living as a second-rate newspaper columnist and by selling off family heirlooms."
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
April, 2004
Published:
Bogotá, Colombia : El Tiempo
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
This article analyzes the book Gabriel García Márquez y Fidel: El paisaje de una Amistad by Ángel Esteban and Stéphanie Panichelli, stating that it goes somewhat in depth into the relationship between Gabriel García Márquez and Fidel.
Dubin (Composer), Mercer (Composer), Warren (Composer), Berlin Schlegel (Performer), Sarah Wigley Johnson (Instructor), and Jaime Soojin Cohen (Accompanist)
Secondary source, Reviews of Books About Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
Nov/Dec 2002
Published:
United States : Organization of American States
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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54(6) : p. 60-61
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Mujica reviews the book Luminous Cities by Eduardo García Aguilar. Part of the book takes place on the coast of Colombia, in the town of Riohacha. Mujica writes, "This area known for its violence and lawlessness is also the inspiration for the best loved novels of Gabriel García Márquez, whom the people venerate, along with Octavio Paz. In this beautiful but savage land, children and their teachers flock to the public library and films by García Márquez attract steady crowds. In Riohacha the juxtaposition of the magical and the commonplace that marks García Márquez's writing is just part of the landscape."
"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
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"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
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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
Related Item Details:
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."
United States : North American Congress on Latin America
Location:
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.."
Duncan Sheik (Composer), Steven Sater (Composer), Charlotte Elfenbaum (Performer), Sarah Wigley Johnson (Instructor), and Jaime Soojin Cohen (Accompanist)
"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
Notes:
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
Location:
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."
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."
In this review of Lucius Shepard's new book, Dorman T. Shindler states that Shepard comes "off like a cross between Gabriel García Márquez and Joseph Conrad, Shepard takes the ordinary and invests it with limitless supernatural potential, causing symbols, analogies and gut-wrenching emotion to rise up in the smoke of his storyteller's campfire and mingle in the ether for as long as he wants."
Dawn Harris (director, camp director, stage director, and voice instructor), Young Whun Kim (pianist), Ella Burrus (Chava), Lianna Pfister (Tzeitel), and Sarah Rosenberg (Hodel)
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
July 17, 2003
Published:
Buenos Aires, Argentina : La Maga
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
Article informing the public of Verbo Americano, an important series from 1985, based on fragments of novels by authors such as Cesar Vallejos, José Martí, Nicolás Guillén, Gabriela Mistral, Ruben Darío, and Gabriel García Márquez. The series expresses the intentions of the artist, Roberto Matta, where he links American creations with a universal culture. His masterpieces are then accompanied by texts by the previously mentioned artists.
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
Summer 2004
Published:
United States : Marquette University
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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7(1) : pp.43-59
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Tourino discusses the way that Latin American novelists have been able to use their position to effect political influence. He cites García Márquez as one such author who "dedicated his prose both to renovate Colombian literary culture and to wage a mass-media guerra informativa in defense of the voiceless Third World."
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
August 17, 2004
Published:
Philadelphia, PA : American College of Physicians
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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141(4) : 328
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"This book is the second in a series of 16 essays about some of the author's favorite writers, including Shakespeare, Gabriel García Márquez, and even Evelyn Waugh. The essays summarize the plot and structure of the original works, with occasional comments specifically addressed to physicians. The essays are superbly informative, but are better enjoyed after the physician has read the books discussed. Reading them beforehand would dilute the excitement of the journey that the author wants readers to experience."
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."
Viewed on 29 January, 2008.||Last year Gabriel García Márquez published Vivir para contarla, a best seller that broke all sales records in Peru. With his new novel, Memoria de mis putas tristes, he is expected to have a similar sales outcome, despite the bootlegging controversy surrounding this novel. The edition printed in Peru is very peculiar: it's cheaper, it's hardcover, and it has textual differences in relation to other volumes distributed in Latin America. The Peruvian edition was printed before García Márquez submitted his last corrections.
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
March 2005
Published:
Madrid, Spain : Ediciones Cultura Hispánica
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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657 : 71
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"En 'Memoria de mis putas tristes' se revela, con el ingenio de un quino barroco, el genio de la novela, su apuesta por el escándalo de vivir: entre los prostíbulos de la realidad, la fábula de la imaginación redimida."
New York, NY : Casa de las Españas, Columbia University
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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58(1/2) : pp. 175-184
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Earle studies the role of memory and imagination in Latin American nations. He focuses many influential and cultural factors including the works of Gabriel García Márquez.
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
October 26, 2004
Published:
Los Angeles, CA : Los Angeles Times
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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Also published in El Universal (Mexico)||"It may be too easy a wisecrack to call the Gang that Couldn't Steal Straight. But the joke definitely was on the Colombian bootleggers who put out a pirated edition of Gabriel García Márquez's new novella last week, apparently not realizing that the Nobel Prize-winning author had made some last-minute changes to the ending."
Mennell discusses the recent tendency to make popular Latin American novels, especially those with elements of magical realism, into films that become as popular as, or more popular than, the novels they are based on. He mentions García Márquez's success at converting some of his own stories into film, in particular, "Eréndira" and "Un hombre muy viejo con unas alas enormes."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
July-Sept 2004
Published:
Academia Nacional de la Historia (Venezuela)
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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87(347) : p. 185-192
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De-Sola writes, "En Vivir para contarla.(Bogotá: Norma, 2002. 584 p.) Gabriel García Marquez nos ofrece el primer tomo de sus memories. En este caso van desde su nacimiento hasta el momento en que, tras la publicación de su primera novela, La hojarasca, en 1955, hizo su primer viaje a Europa. Estos recuerdos importan mucho para sus lectores. Y más allá del estilo sobrio y preciso en que están redactadas ya que ellas nos permiten comprender, a partir de las mismas palabras de García Márquez, cuál fue su vida ... "
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
August 22, 2005
Published:
New York, NY : Reed Business Information
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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252(33) : 34
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The author states about Memoirs of My Melancholy Whores that "the narrator's wit and charm, however, are not enough to counterbalance the monotony of his aimlessness. Though enough grace notes are struck to produce echoes of eloquence, this flatness keeps the memories as melancholy as the women themselves."
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
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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 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:
June 1, 2005
Published:
New York, NY : Kirkus Reviews
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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73(11) : S8
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This article reviews "Memories of My Melancholy Whores." The author quotes Knopf's publicity director, Nicholas Latimer, and states, "Latimer acknowledges that he was initially 'disappointed' the book wasn't longer--but says that it doesn’t read like a short book."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
July 15, 2005
Published:
New York, NY : VNU Business Media, Inc
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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73(14) : Fiction: 754
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This review of Memories of My Melancholy Whores states that "There is no indication--unless it is the word "melancholy" in the title--that García Márquez means his tale to be the parody of macho idiocy it appears to be. His hero ends revitalized and radiantly optimistic, while readers are left wondering, "Can he be serious?" What can't be dismissed, however, is García Márquez's gift for the casually adept insight."
"In her article, 'Memory and the Quest for Family History in One Hundred Years of Solitude and Song of Solomon,' Susana Vega-González explores similarities between the novels of García Márquez and Morrison with a special focus on the use of memory and imagination. Based on theoretical models, Vega-González proposes that fictional representations are a means of rewriting history, a particular aspect of literary discourse. The texts under scrutiny constitute true quest stories of characters who search for their family history along their own identity amidst the dangers of capitalism and its excessive desire for progress and class ascent. The break with advocacy of hybridity are some of the features that link Morrison and García Márquez with magical realism, a literary mode that contributes to their rewriting of a history peopled with the ghosts of slavery, colonialism, and imperialism."
"The article reports that Giovanna Mezzogiorno will star opposite Javier Bardem in 'Love in the Time of Cholera,' which Mike Newell is directing for Stone Village Pictures and New Line Cinema. Stone Village is fully financing the movie and will hold all international rights. Based on the novel by Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel García Márquez, 'Love in the Time of Cholera' tells the story of an unrequited love that spans more than 50 years in South America, where two lovers wait out careers, marriages, affairs, and deaths until they can reunite."
Mary Lusky Friedman discusses the Memoirs of Isabel Allende and Alma Guillermoprieto. She compares and contrasts the works of these prominent writers to those of the Boom writers, including Gabriel García Márquez.
Hozven discusses the work, "Mi Viaje por El Camino Del Inca," by Alexander von Humboldt. He notes that the author who has revisited the writing, David Yudilevich, relates a certain aspect of the work to García Márquez.
The author discusses the presence of indigenous peoples, the Wayúu tribe, in the house where the author of Cien años de soledad grew up. In 1996, his sister, Ligia García Márquez confirmed these statements during an interview with Silvia Galvis.
"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."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 83 Document Number: D10838
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Online from the Center for Food Integrity, Gladstone, Missouri. 2 pages., "New research shows a significant and growing group of health-conscious consumers is confused by the mixed messages they're receiving about the 'real deal' and the substitutes entering the market."
In reviewing Mircea Cartarescu's book "Nostalgia" the author states "With Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel García Márquez, Julio Cortazar, and Ernesto Sabato, Cartarescu shares this visionary capacity to treat the imaginary as if it were real and the real as if it were imaginary."
Carol Channing, Faye, Jonathan Kellerman, and Scott Turow
Format:
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
March, 2003
Published:
Boston, MA : Writer
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
116(3) : 10-11
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This article presents updates on some writers, as of March 2003. Provides background on Vivir para contarla, an autobiography of Gabriel García Márquez; the number of years it took Carol Channing to write her autobiography, Just Lucky I Guess; Details of the married life of Jonathan and Faye Kellerman; and the focus of the book, Reversible Errors by Scott Turow.
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
March, 2003
Published:
Boston, MA : The Writer, Inc.
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
116(3) : 10
Notes:
"Presents updates on some writers, as of March 2003. Background on Vivir para contarla, an autobiography of Gabriel García Márquez: Number of years it took Carol Channing to writer her autobiography, Just Lucky I guess: Details of the married life of Jonathan and Faye Kellerman: Focus of the book Reversible Errors by Scott Turow."
This article intends to demonstrate a reflection and proposition of what Carlos Fuentes takes from topics of "mito," utopia, and the epic novel in Hispanic-America in his essay "Valiente mundo nuevo." Briefly mentions the importance of García Márquez in representing "mito" in Latin-American writing.
The article states: "Mo Yan promises to step onto the larger stage of literature in the twenty-first century as a world-class author. Emerging at a time in the mid-1980s when young Chinese writers, painters, and filmmakers began to look beyond political ideology for theme and subject matter, when the forces of modernism began to reach Chinese intellectuals through translations of foreign literature, and when the movement to ''seek cultural roots'' gained momentum, Mo Yan has created a singular and compelling fictional voice that benefits from all these developments but owes allegiance only to its own esthetic principles." Makes multiple references to the works of Gabriel García Márquez.
Discusses the lack of good literature in modern times. Proposes a plan to 'save' the inevitable death of literature and the humanities. States that writers like Gabriel García Márquez and José Donoso produced great novels at first, but then lowered their standards for the public 'market'.
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
October, 2004
Published:
Madrid, Spain : elmundolibro.com
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
Viewed on 28 January, 2008.||Mondadori will publish in October in all of the Apanish-speaking world the first novel by García Márquez in the last ten years, Memorias de mis putas tristes, of which a million copies will be printed.
"The article reports that Catalina Sandino Moreno is in negotiations to join the cast of 'Love in the Time of Cholera,' which is being directed by Mike Newell for Stone Village Pictures and New Line Cinema. Javier Bardem and Giovanna Mezzogiorno already have been cast in the film, based on the novel by Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel García Márquez. The story follows a romantic man named Florentino who loses Fermina, the girl of his dreams, to a wealthier suitor and spends the next 50 years building his life and reputation so that one day he might have her. Moreno will play Hildebranda Sanchez, Fermina's cousin."
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
May, 2003
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
Viewed on 24 January, 2008.||The woman who inspired García Márquez's Angela Vicaro's character in Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Margarita Chica Salas, died of a heart attack at the age of 78 in Sucre, Colombia.
"Features Augusto Monterroso, a Latin American author. Countries around the world where Monterroso has spent his life; Latin American writers who became Monterroso's friends, including Gabriel García Márquez; Commendation and criticisms on the personal and professional attitudes of Monterroso; Political influences of Monterroso"
Kait Kerriggan (Composer), Brian Lowdermilk (Composer), Elana Weiner-Kaplow (Performer), Sarah Wigley Johnson (Instructor), and Young Whun Kim (Accompanist)
In talking about his travels abroad Robert Elms mentions his trip to Colombia and states that "My wife and I rented an 18th-century conquistador house in Cartagena for our 10-week honeymoon and out neighbor turned out to be Gabriel García Márquez. We went to his 60th birthday party."
"The article describes the personal library of a librarian from Georgia. The author mentioned the picture books 'The Butterflies Come,' and 'Juanita,' by Leo Politi and the satirical work 'Cautionary Verses,' by Hilaire Belloc as favorite books from a childhood collection. Contemporary literary fiction by Isabel Allende and Gabriel García Márquez are included in the library. Books about writing and the creative process noted by the author include those by Anne Lamott and Julia Cameron
Lin-Manuel Miranda (Composer), Sean Smith (Arranger/Conductor), University Band (Performers), Bennett Kosma (Alexander Hamilton), Liz Salim (Aaron Burr), Jon Faw (John Laurens), Janjay Knowlden (Hercules Mulligan), James Hevel (Marquis de Lafayette), and Barry L. Houser (King George)
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
April 8, 2005
Published:
London, UK : Express Newspapers
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
Features; 53
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Ben Fogle lists Gabriel García Márquez's book One Hundred Years of Solitude as one of his six best books. Fogle states that the book is "a complicated tale, like a patchwork, with a zillion characters. It's set in a Colombian town, and the focal point is a Latin American family."
"Presents a contextual analysis of the books 'A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings,' by Gabriel García Márquez and 'The Lesson,' by Toni Cade Bambara. Overview of the story of each book; Subjects discussed in the books; Characters in the books."
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
October 21, 2004
Published:
Washington, DC : United Press International
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
"Colombia's famed writer Gabriel García Márquez has pulled a fast one on those selling pirated copies of his new book, Memoria de mis putas tristes, by changing the ending."
"If fans of Nobel Laureate Gabriel García Márquez - better known as Gabo - have been wondering why they didn't hear much of him during 2005, the reason is simple: he had a one-year writer's block."
"La subasta de las primeras pruebas de 'Cien años de soledad' que se celebró el viernes en Barcelona, quedó desierta. Nadie pujó por el precio de salida que ascendía a medio millón de dólares. Los más de sesenta compradores potenciales que llenaban la sala de la Casa Batlló de la capital catalana se quedaron mudos al comienzo de la subasta. Universidades estadounidenses, agentes literarios, institucioines españolas y francesas...nadie quiso llevarse la obra maestra de Gabriel García Márquez a casa."
"La subasta de las primeras pruebas de 'Cien años de soledad' que se celebró el viernes en Barcelona, quedó desierta. Nadie pujó por el precio de salida que ascendía a medio millón de dólares. Los más de sesenta compradores potenciales que llenaban la sala de la Casa Batlló de la capital catalana se quedaron mudos al comienzo de la subasta. Universidades estadounidenses, agentes literarios, institucioines españolas y francesas...nadie quiso llevarse la obra maestra de Gabriel García Márquez a casa."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
October 30, 2005
Published:
Columbus, OH : The Columbus Dispatch
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
The Arts; Bookends; 07F
Notes:
In his review of Gabriel García Márquez's novel Memories of My Melancholy Whores, Bill Eichenberger discusses the narrator and states that "one needn't like a first-person narrator for a novel to be successful, but one must at least find that narrator interesting. The reclusive narrator of Gabriel García Márquez's first work of fiction in 10 years...is indeed interesting."
Viewed on 29 January, 2008. "Cervantes no es el autor en lengua castellana más solicitado por los internautas. Los latinoamericanos Pablo Neruda y Gabriel García Márquez superan al 'principe de las letras,' según la 'Enciclopedia del español en el mundo,' el anuario del Instituto Cervantes que se acaba de publicar."
