Fuentes describes the enigmatic nature of Mexico, and Bach quotes him as saying, "You know, when Garcia Marquez feels he doesn't understand Mexico, what's going on-it's such a complicated country-he goes to the anthropological museum and stands in front of Coatlicue for half an hour and says 'Now I understand!' In Mexico there is this enigma, which is a great spurt to the writer and artist, of course."
Analyzes two works on Alejo Carpentier: "Carpentier's Baroque Fiction: Returning Medusa's Gaze", by Steve Wakefield and "El festín de Alejo Carpentier: una lectura culinario-intertextual," by Rita De Maeseneer. Mentions that Carpentier was a "precursor to Latin America's so-called ''Boom'' era, which culminated in the work of novelists such as Julio Cortázar, Gabriel García Márquez, Carlos Fuentes, and Mario Vargas Llosa."
Presents a letter from Orlando Fais Borda to Pedro Santana. Discusses the 50th anniversary of Revista Foro among other topics. Briefly states his intent to describe the local historic morphology.
This article reviews Marie Arana's book "Cellophane." The author, Jennifer Stidham, states, "Acclaimed Peruvian-American author Arana (American Chica) treads the ground between the stark realities of mid-century Peruvian politics and changing the social mores and the sensitive and honest portrayal of a family in chaos as adroitly as the giants of the genre, including Gabriel García Márquez and Isabel Allende."
In talking about Malala's essay, Write the beloved Country, Roberts states that "in praising Zakes Mda as "reminiscent of Gabriel García Márquez", Mr. Malala seems unaware that Mda rejects that comparison as condescending."
Viewed on 29 January, 2008. "El gobierno de Irán decidió prohibir la más reciente novela del escritor colombiano Gabriel García Márquez, 'Memoria de mis putas tristes,' al argumentar que la autorización inicial para distribuirla se debió a un 'error burocrático,' informó ayer la agencia informativa local Fars."
Reviews "Characteristics and Functions of Direct Quotes in Hispanic Fiction. A Linguistic Analysis", by Isolde Jordan. "Isolde Jordan's book is an attempt to apply pragmalinguistic methods of analysis to Hispanic short fiction, more specifically to Gabriel García Márquez's El coronel no tiene quien le escriba and to Carmen Laforet's Nada, mainly concentrating on the use of direct speech in these works."
Washington, DC : Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
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Library, University of Illinois
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(135) : 78-79
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Castro reviews the book Vivir para contarla or Living to Tell the Tale by Gabriel García Márquez, in relation to the beginnings of their friendship and their similar experiences.
"En ocasión del XXVII festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano, y con la presencia del Premio Nobel de Literatura Gabriel García Márquez, el viernes 9 de diciembre quedó abierta en la Galería Latinoamericana de la Casa de las Américas la exposición Cien años de soledad al aguafuerte..."
United States : University of Miami, Latin American Politics & Society
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Library, University of Illinois
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45(1) : pp. 87-118
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Green writes about the military dictatorship in Brazil, and the various reactions throughout the United States. With a brief mention of García Márquez, Green depicts "an international group of prestigious figures known for their commitment to progressive causes."
"Mike Newell is filming Love in the Time of Cholera in South America's most notorious country, and he is in good company. Maya Jaggi reports on Colombia's film-industry boom."
Washington : Center for Strategic and International Studies Georgetown University
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Library, University of Illinois
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25(3) : 123-134
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This article discusses many different things about Colombia; in the section titled "A Nation in Spite of Itself" the author states, "A common Colombian culture is unmistakable. With great self-confidence, Colombians claim to speak better Spanish than the Spanish. Regional differences certainly exist. Folklore, song, and dance styles differ by region but are honored widely. The screechy rhythms of vallenato country music from the northeast (think bluegrass), now lead the national charts. Novelist and Nobel Prize winner Gabriel García Márquez and world-renowned painter and sculptor Fernando Botero are national unifiers. Recent Grammy winner Shakira is a great source of national pride." The author also references two of Márquez's works, "El general en su laberinto" and "News of a Kidnapping" in his notes.
Denmark : Universidad de Aarhus, Centro de Estudios Latinoamericanos
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Library, University of Illinois
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11 : pp. 1-15
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Discusses the social, political and economic state of Columbia. Focuses on the fluctuations within the nation as well as cultural influences. Mentions historical figures, writers, and political figures.
"Nobel Prize-winner Gabriel García Márquez, who rarely offers glimpses into his private life, says he has stopped writing for the time being, at least."
"Residents of the hometown of Nobel Prize-winning novelist Gabriel García Márquez failed to pass a referendum Sunday to change the town's name to Macondo, the fictitious tropical hamlet in his masterpiece 'One Hundred Years of Solitude.'"
"It was heartening, then, to read the next day of the new Gabriel García Márquez novel, Memories of My Melancholy Whores, which has just gone on sale in the Hispanophone world. García Márquez is 76 and unwell, but his book seems to be about sex,love and age, not age, death and funerals. Its principal character is a retired journalist, just turning 90, who decides to mark his birthday by sleeping with a 14-year old virgin prostitute (the book is set in Colombia in the 1950s, putting plenty of cultural distance between us and the uncomfortable morality of that time and place)."