The article focuses on Jüri Talvet. "He has chaired the comparative literature program at Tartu University, with Spanish and Latin American literature as his special focus." He is also a scholar and has been active as a writer and a translator and has translated works by Gabriel García Márquez, among others.
Reviews the book 'Unsterbliche Geschichte oder Das Leben der Sonja Trotzkij-Sanmmler oder Karneval,' by Jiri Kratochvil." States that he uses techniques similar to those of Borges and García Márquez.
Américas documents reader comments on certain articles. One reader comments on the rich source of literary information on authors such as García Márquez.
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.
"After 10 years in the U.S. Spanish book market, Random House's Vintage Español will significantly expand the range of its publishing activity. Beginning this year, the literary imprint, known for bestsellers like Sandra Cisneros's Caramelo and Gabriel García Márquez's Memoria de mis putas tristes (Memories of My Melancholy Whores), will broaden its publishing program to include commercial fiction, bestsellers in translation, and books on health, diet, parenting, self-help and personal finance."
"The well known writer Graham Greene and several other luminaries with Leftist leanings, including Gabriel García Márquez, Dario Fo, Pablo Neruda and Carlos Fuentes, were denied visas to the US during the McCarthy era. Later, however, the US government reportedly admitted its error, particularly when these men became even more famous. Denial of visas added to their works even wider acclaim."
Hoyos reviews the first volume of Gabriel García Márquez's autobiography, Vivir para contarla (Living to Tell the Tale). Hoyos states, "At first glance, García Márquez's vivid and detailed portrait of his early life seems like a testament to a photographic recollection. Yet as he explains... he warns readers that memories are not just fact or fiction but maybe a mix of both, depending on how one recalls past events. Overall, this first volume reflects García Márquez's experience as both a novelist and a journalist: Although his prose is literary, recalling his imaginative signature style, the historical content is as rigorously researched as his journalistic writings."
"October 2002 was marked by the publication of Vivir para contarla, the intensely anticipated first volume of Gabriel García Márquez's memoirs. In this 579-page text (Argentine edition), the Colombian Nobel laureate recounts with the brilliant imagination and stylistic virtuosity that have characterized his literary production the first thirty years of his life, from his childhood in Aracataca to his first trip to Europe in 1957 as a foreign correspondent for the Bogotá newspaper El Espectador. These years were highly influential in his development as a writer and in the creation of the fictional world of his early short stories and novels, the "Macondo" cycle. It is a text that can be read as a memoir or a fictional text, or an amalgam of the two forms."