Viewed on 28 January, 2008.||Reviews Living to Tell the Tale through a series of collected reviews from sources such as Daily Telegraph, FAZ, The LA Times, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, New Statesman, The NY Times, Newsweek, The Observer, Sydney Morning Herald, and The Washington Post. The overall assessment was of a grade of A: considered an utterly engaging memoir and generally found it very enjoyable.
In discussing Tomas Eloy Martinez, the author states, "He was shortlisted for the first Man Booker International Prize in 2005 and has been garlanded with praise by Gabriel García Márquez, Mario Vargas Llosa and Carlos Fuentes, among others."
This article presents Adam Zagajewski's acceptance speech for his Neustadt International Prize for Literature. He remarks on how much of an honor it is to be part of a list of great authors including Gabriel García Márquez.
"In 2001, Nichols left Bana and opened Macondo Design in Middle Island, which she named after the magical village in 100 years of Solitude, a novel by Gabriel García Márquez. The name struck a cord with Nichols, who said, I help peoples' dreams come true."
Barranquilla Colombia : Fundación Cultural Nueva Música: La Iguana Ciega
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Library, University of Illinois
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Gabriel García Márquez is mentioned various times through out the book, specifically on pages 17, 24, 69, 70, 76, 82, 91, 92, 94, 98, 102, and 110-114.
Reviewing El general en su laberinto, Castañon offers that fans and readers of the book were so into the novel, distraught, tired from staying up to finish it, somber, and then went back to reread the novel as characters who were locked in stone and mud. For some, the novel was or is a tribute or a betrayal to Fidel Castro. For others, the novel was about Che Guevara, a symbolic imitation of the failed guerrilla that we all carry inside.
"Like the publication of Vivir para contarla, the novel's release came with a few surprises. Previously, Knopf lost thousands of sales for the author's autobiography because illegally imported foreign editions were readily available to his fans in the U.S. To avoid that mistake, the house joined forces with [Gabriel García] Márquez's agent, Carmen Balcells, and the book's other Spanish-language publishers for what was originally a worldwide release on October 27."
Spain : Centro de Estudios y Cooperación para América Latina
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Library, University of Illinois
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9(21) : pp. 35-52
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Discusses contemporary issues with the analysis of Cervantes and Don Quijote de La Mancha by various writers. Briefly mentions the effect of this classic literature on modern writing, including in "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel García Márquez.