"'Hotel Europa' by Dumitru Tsepeneag is reviewed." The review mentions that "To mix detailed naturalism successfully with a surreal vision takes a Garcia Marquez," which Tsepeneag has not achieved.
Viewed on 28 January, 2008.||"The top 50 essential contemporary reads (as nominated by a sample of 500 people attending the Guardian Hay festival. In alphabetical order)." One Hundred Years of Solitude is included.
Viewed on 29 January, 2008.|Cobb reviews Living to Tell the Tale by Gabriel García Márquez as translated by Edith Grossman. Cobb states that the volume ends up in the air, with a double drama about to unfold in his late 20s. "Perhaps the surest sign of the success of this book comes in the reader's enthusiasm to await its sequel, so as to hear Márquez's account of the subsequent episodes in his distinguished life of love and literature."
"Novelist Gabriel García Márquez wouldn't travel to Wales for the Hay literary festival, so the annual bookfest, dubbed "the Woodstock of the mind," has gone to him in his native Colombia."
In discussing Aimee Bender's writing Caldwell states that "Gabriel García Márquez once famously explained the credibility of magical realism by referring to the priest in "One Hundred Years of Solitude" who levitates each time he drinks a cup of hot chocolate: it's the chocolate, García Márquez said, that makes the levitation real. In Bender's world, the opposite holds true: her scaffoldings of unreality are there to hold the humanity within the story."
Viewed on 29 January, 2008. In this article the author discusses the new wave of Mexican authors stating, "Absent is the exotic, folkloric and politically charged magical realism that writers born in the 1920s and 1930s, namely Colombia's Gabriel García Márquez, Mexico's Carlos Fuentes, and Peru's Mario Vargas Llosa, made popular during El Boom. This generation towered over Latin America's literary scene for years."
"This article profiles Oscar-winning playwright Ronald Harwood and his various ongoing projects. The author describes Harwood as someone who prides himself on being unfashionable. He has plays about to open in the West End including 'Collaboration,' which is about pro-Nazi composer Richard Strauss and Jewish librettist Stefan Zweig, and filming of his screenplay adaption of Gabriel García Márquez 'Love in the Time of Cholera,' is ongoing.