Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
November 21, 2004
Published:
Miami, FL : Miami Herald Publishing
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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"El encanto de la mujer dormida, abandonada a su suerte, indefensa en el lecho, junto al amante que se satisface sólo con mirarla dormir, como en los cuentos de hadas, es 'la esencia del placer,' en Memoria de mis putas tristes, la reciente novela de Gabriel García Márquez, breve, intensa, y diáfana como sus primeros cuentos y la única ficción publicada por el autor en los úlitmos diez años."
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
March, 2004
Published:
Madison, WI : Madison Newspapers, Inc.
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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9A Editorial
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Review and commentary on Brazilian mystery writer Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza, where a comparison is drawn: "Some critics have claimed that if Gabriel García Márquez had written crime novels, they would read much like Garcia-Roza's novels, suffused with atmosphere and often struck with wonder at the power of human interaction to both heal and wound."
Viewed 29 January, 2008. After street vendors began selling pirated copies of García Márquez's Memorias de mis putas tristes, García Márquez decided to change the last chapter and sell the book earlier in order to fool those attempting to sell the pirated copies.
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
February 10, 2006
Published:
Madison, WI : The Daily Cardinal via U-Wire
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
"Fortunately, García Márquez was nowhere near done with prose, returning to form with his new novel, "Memories of My Melancholy Whores." A compelling and concise piece of work, Márquez proves that even after 15 books he still has the skill and spirit to tell an unforgettable story." ""Melancholy Whores" is closer to Márquez's short stories than his novels in length -- only 115 pages -- but it is still a triumphant return to form. Márquez appears to get even better as the years go on. Hopefully, readers won't have to wait until Márquez himself turns 90 for his next book."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
December 8, 2005
Published:
McLean, VA : Gannett Company
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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Life 4D
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In this review Dierdre Donahue states, "Any writing from Nobel Prize-winner Gabriel García Márquez is an event. The Colombian-born author wrote one of the great literary masterpieces of the past century, One Hundred Years of Solitude. Unfortunately, Memories of My Melancholy Whores, his first work of fiction in a decade, is pretty thin and a real letdown compared with his brilliant autobiography, Living to tell the Tale, published in 2003."
United States : Asociacion de Literatura Femenina Hispanica
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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29(2) : pp. 9-32
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Analyzes and criticizes "Los caminos de Eros son imprevisibles," by Isable Allende. Compares her work to the work of other Latin American writers, including García Márquez.
United States : Latin American Literary Review Press
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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30(60) : pp. 128-146
Notes:
"Jorgensen explores the points of convergence and conflict in the criticism and, in concluding, to signal aspects of Isabel Allende's work, including some problematical qualities, that have not received due attention. She starts by accounting for the large body of criticism on 'La casa de los espiritus,' 'De amor y de sombra' and 'Eva Luna,' and the well-known debate over 'Casa,' and then she focuses on the relatively few articles that treat Allende's books published form 1991 to 2001." Also focuses on the debate between her works and the works of García Márquez, specifically 'La Casa de los espiritus,' and 'Cien años de soledad' respectively
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, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
January, 2004
Published:
Salon.com
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
Viewed on January 24, 2008.||"The parade of literary fashion invariably passes, and Gabriel García Márquez's Macondo, the folksy, fictional village that embodied and, in part, defined the notion of magical realism, has been replaced by McOndo, a contemporary Latin American literary trend of gritty, urban realism, its name a takeoff on García Márquez's Macondo and a combination of the words "McDonald's," "Macintosh," and "condo.""
Viewed on 29 January, 2008. "Este año se cumplen 20 años de la publicación de Cien años de soledad, de Gabriel García Márquez, considerada la novela contemporánea más perfecta del habla castellana. De la genialidad de su autor y del férreo respaldo que obtuvo de su esposa, Mercedes Barcha, para culminar su obra, trata esta crónica."
Knee, Allan (Writer), Bethers, Spencer (Cast member (Laurie)), Boghossian, Emma (Cast member (Beth)), Michalak, Emily (Cast member (Jo)), Rosenberg, Sarah (Cast member (Meg)), Webster, Alice (Cast Member (Amy)), Weinfeld, Rachel (Director), and Tilley, Michael (Piano)
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
May 21, 2005
Published:
London, UK : Associated Newspapers Ltd.
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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"Sue Macgregor, presenter of the Radio 4 series, A Good Read, tells York Membery about her favourite novels..." Love in The Time Of Cholera is one of them. She states that "the warm slow prose and the magic realism Márquez has made famous, matches the dreamy heat of the South American setting."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
August 25, 2005
Published:
Australia : West Australian Newspapers Limited
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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Features; 16
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Review of Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude. The review states that the book "transformed world literature when it was published in 1967.
Viewed on 29 January, 2008. "Nobel Prize winner recalls early struggle to write. Clinton hails 'best novelist since Faulkner.'" Hailed by a crowd of more than a thousand who gave a standing ovation, Latin America
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
November 9, 2005
Published:
St. Louis, MO : St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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Everyday; E4
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In this review of Gabriel García Márquez's Memories of My Melancholy Whores Peter Wolfe discusses the plot and states, "This little book redefines joy. Gabriel García Márquez, having honed his craft for decades, needs only a couple of pages both to grab our attention and to win our trust. From the start, no clumsy syntax, descriptive overload, or psychological murk fouls his art."
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
November, 2002
Published:
Montevideo, Uruguay : El País
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
Viewed on 24 January, 2008.|In homage to Gabriel García Márquez and to commemorate the twenty years since his winning the Nobel Prize, the tenth of December, El general en su laberinto was read aloud from beginning to end.
Grace Brown (Anita), Anna Riggins (Maria), Sarah Wigley Johnson (Director), Michael Tilley (Pianist), and Dawn Harris (Camp Director/Stage Director/ Voice Instructor)
Bach writes on Mempo Giardinelli. In this article Giardinelli talks about his life and career. In speaking of the Malvinas/Falkland War he quotes García Márquez in saying that "it was a just cause in bastard hands."
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
September, 2002
Published:
La Paz, Bolivia : El Diario
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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Sección Cultural
Notes:
The American filmmaker, Francis Ford Coppola, readily admitted that he would like to make a film about the Liberator, Simón Bolívar. And for that, it could be based on a novel by the Colombian author, Gabriel García Márquez, particularly The General in his Labyrinth, with the help of the author himself.
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
Jan-Feb 2008
Published:
United States : Organization of American States
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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60(1) : p.60
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Pena writes: "So much has been written about Gabriel García Márquez that it is as if a light had been shined through a prism, casting an entire rainbow of opinions. The author's eightieth birthday and the fortieth anniversary of the publication of One Hundred Years of Solitude have led the literary world and the media in general to celebrate the personality and work of this icon of letters."
"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."
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."
This article mentions the appearance of Gabriel García Márquez's new novel Memories of My Melancholy Whores in Brazil's top five bestsellers for the week.
"He had always been the most disciplined of writers, sitting early in the morning before his trusty Macintosh, the magical, poetic words that have defined Latin America spilling from his head. That part never changed. But then Gabriel García Márquez, the 1982 Nobel laureate from Colombia and the foremost author in Latin America, learned in 1999 that he had lymphatic cancer."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
November 4, 2005
Published:
Seattle, WA : The Seattle Times Company
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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Books; J10
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In this article Michael Upchurch reviews Gabriel García Márquez's Memories of My Melancholy Whores and compares it to John Cheever's Oh What a Paradise it Seems, stating that Memories of My Melancholy Whores "too, is a lyrical-raunchy portrait of an old man taking what may be his last taste of the world."
After discussing his opinion on the rise of the left in Latin American politics Castaneda stated, "Now that the Cold War is over, it should never happen again. So instead of arguing over whether to welcome or bemoan the advent of the left in Latin America, it would be wiser to separate the sensible from the irresponsible and to support the former and contain the latter. If done right, this would go a long way toward helping the region finally find its bearings and, as Gabriel García Márquez might put it, end its hundreds of years of solitude."
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, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
unknown
Published:
La Habana, Cuba : Ediciones ICAICS Martin Luther King, Jr Memorial Center
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
Kennedy provides information from when he first wrote a review of One Hundred Years of Solitude and then progresses into more details of his journeys into the world of Gabriel García Márquez.
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
November, 2003
Published:
Manchester, England : The Guardian Newspaper Limited
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
Viewed on 24 January, 2008.||"The idea for the film school occurred to García 17 years ago. As he saw it, what the continent desperately needed was a "factory of creative energy" where talented people from all over the world would feed off each other. Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez has a house in Havana, and when García turned up to suggest the idea, Castro happened to be there. That same evening, the plan was agreed. I wondered how a novelist and an ex-guerrilla leader came to get so excited about building a film school. "I think they are both frustrated film-makers," grins García."
In this review of Hayle Harbour's play A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings Martin states that, "The show is inspired by Gabriel García Márquez's magical realist story about an old man with huge, dirty buzzard wings who crash-lands in a small village."
Gainsville, FL : University of Florida at Gainsville
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
The university Of Florida at Gainsville has chosen "A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings" by Gabriel García Márquez for the One City One Story program which promotes reading.
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
November, 2003
Published:
St. Petersburg, FL : Times Publishing Company
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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"This corruption of the famous opening sentence of García Márquez's classic One Hundred Years of Solitude risks cheapening one of the most elegant and hypnotic passages of modern literature. Its only defense is its truth. If there is one lesson to be gleaned from García Márquez's engrossing memoir, Living to Tell the Tale, it is that the author who single-handedly defined the genre of "magic realism" drew some of his most memorable and fantastic tales from the rich history of his family and native Colombia."
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
July 2, 2001
Published:
New York, NY : J.H. Richards
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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273(1) : 36
Notes:
"The following remarks are excerpts from a longer interview between Colombian Nobel Laureate Gabriel García Márquez, representing the magazine Cambio, and the Zapatista leader Subcomandante Marcos. The full text appeared in Cambio earlier this year."
"Reviews the book 'Plural [1971-1976]: Thirty Years Later: A Magazine Founded and Edited by Octavio Paz." The review mentions that the magazine had reviewed by Gabriel García Márquez, among others.
Washington, D.C. : Organisation of American States
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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57(1) : p. 64
Notes:
This article presents a short story written by Gabriel García Márquez about man named Abel Quezada. The story focuses on the issues dealing with Quezada's life and his personal troublings.
Viewed on 29 January, 2008. "Más de 30 fotografías sobre la relación histórica del escritor colombiano Gabriel García Márquez con cartagena de Indias se expondrán desde mañana en esa ciudad caribeña, como parte de los homenajes al novelista en el IV Congreso Internacional de la Lengua Española."
Puri writes a response to her critics on her various works. Towards the end of the article she notes how, in response to Marc Brudzinski, she "could have explored more fully the issue of regional/ transnational/non-local readerships," which she states would "probably lie in the moment when I read Carpentier and García Márquez and 'recognized' India in them."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
November 6, 2005
Published:
Pittsburgh, PA : P.G. Publishing
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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Book Review; C-4
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In this review of Gabriel García Márquez's Memories of My Melancholy Whores Bob Hoover states that "the author of the masterpiece "One Hundred Years of Solitude" isn't offering us anything as entertaining or challenging this time, only a bauble, a sliver of his genius."
Dawn Harris (camp director, stage director, and voice instructor), Marla Moore (director), Justin Brauer (pianist), Gabriel Generally (Cinderella's Prince), and Timmy Purnell (Rapunzel's Prince)
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
May, 2004
Published:
Miami, FL : Libre Online
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
Viewed on May 18, 2004.||The Mexican officer of Foreign Affairs, Luis Ernesto Derbez, rejected the need for mediation through Gabriel García Márquez between his country and Cuba.
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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5A
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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."
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
June-July, 2002
Published:
Bogotá, Colombia : El Malpensante
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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(39) : 47-48
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Alzate Vargas recounts the story of the first classic book that he read and says, "One Hundred Years of Solitude didn't belong to my father. I doubt that he ever was interested in García Márquez." He goes on to describe his feelings about the cover, as well as his feelings upon reading it.
Cánovas discusses allegory in various Latin American works, among them, García Márquez's La increíble y triste historia de la cándida Eréndira y de su abuela desalmada.
Dawn Harris (camp director, stage director, and voice instructor), Sarah Johnson (director), Michael Tilley (pianist), and ISYM Musical Theatre Ensemble (performer)
Hammerstein, Oscar (Composer), Cochran, Natalie (Cast member (Annie)), Wolf, Dylan (Cast member (Will)), Harris, Dawn (Director), and Morganson, Cheryl Forest (Piano)
Dawn Harris (camp director, stage director, and voice instructor), Sarah Johnson (director), Michael Tilley (pianist), Camri Anderson (performer), Grace Brown (performer), Grace Galman (performer), Taylor Mondragon (performer), and Brea Rollston (performer)
In reviewing Jorge Franco's new book, Abani states that "Jorge Franco is a founding member of the self-anointed McOndo School of writers from South and Central America, who opt for harder, grittier urban reality than their magical realist forebears, such as Jorge Amado and Gabriel García Marquez. (The name McOndo itself is a play on Macondo, García Márquez's own Yoknapatawpha County.) But even thought the Characters in Franco's books fly in airplanes rather than through the air by magic, the social placements of these literary movements remain close."
San José, Costa Rica : Editorial de la Universidad de Costa Rica
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
This book talks about love and betrayal within Latin American literature and film. The book has a section entitled "García Márquez en el cine: la primera pasión." The book includes a list of GGM books that have been adapted into film (347), as well as copies of the film poster for "Crónica de una muerte anunciada" (1986).
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
Notes:
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:
November 27, 2005
Published:
Washington, DC : News World Communications
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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Books; On Books; B06
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In this critique and review of the book Carol Herman states, "Readers had every reason to hope that Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez's latest novel, "Memories of My Melancholy Whores," his first work of fiction in 10 years, would be something to behold. But there is a wrinkle, and it rests in the limitations of the book's own central and disturbing act of "beholding.""
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
May 15, 2004
Published:
London, UK : The Times
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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41 Features Theatre The Knowledge
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"Acclaimed Indian Theatre Collective Dehli present the magical-realist tragedy Erendira, adapted from the writing of Gabriel García Márquez, at the ICA."
"Interviews novelist Mario Vargas Llosa of Peru. Views on the goal of businessman Bill Gates to make books obsolete; Status of short stories in the 21st century; Effect of film on literature; Discussion on successful authors who have problems with technical writing." Discusses issues with Latin American writers.
"An unprecedented movie deal with Nobel Prize-winner Gabriel García Márquez was signed with Scott Steindorff's Stone Village Productions after the producer had spent two years pursuing the reluctant author. The deal is for Love in the Time of Cholera and was signed with Carmen Balcells and Nuria Coloma at Balcells's Barcelona agency for over $1 million, with close to twice as much added if a movie goes into production."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
October 30, 2005
Published:
Cleveland, OH : Plain Dealer Publishing
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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Books; H5
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In this review of Memories of My Melancholy Whores, Felipe Nieves discusses the novel and also critiques Edith Grossman's translation of the text from Spanish to English.
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
June, 2003
Published:
Cali, Colombia : Universidad del Valle
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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(19) : 127-142
Notes:
"The Violence (1946-1965) was the first arena of generalized violence in Colombia this century. This phenomenon left the terrifying memory of its more than two hundred thousand deaths, together with a country ruined politically and morally. The writers (novels and consecrates) left evidence of this in an enormous body of work that has been, in large part, negatively sanctioned and, in general, poorly researched. To construct a dispassionate critical judgment and a rigorous study of this literature it is necessary, in principal, to outline some criteria that will permit a clear delineation of the corpus of novels that integrate it."||To sustain his argument, Osorio brings up García Márquez's statement, "La literatura colombiana, un fraude a la nación" where he states that since colonial times, the Colombian literature has had at most three or four literary writers and has been encumbered with false prestige. Furthermore, he states that during the 50s no literary tradition or national literature existed; however, since the 50s there has been a surge in literary novels about the violence, among them, García Márquez's, Mejía Vallejo's, and Álvarez Gardeazábal's.
This work discusses the significance of two representations of Colombia's political culture: elections and war. Briefly mentions a statement on Gabriel García Márquez's social views.
Rafael Cartay writes about the contribution of immigrants in shaping the Venezuelan diet in the twentieth century. In the later part of the study, the author writes about refrigeration in the early nineteenth century, where he comments on García Márquez's "Cien Años de Soledad."
Diana Palaversich analyzes the work of Mario Bellatin. In the article, she compares the mystical world of Bellatin to the works of other writers, including Gabriel García Márquez.
