"Since the appearance of the first publication of One Hundred Years of Solitude (1970) in German, Gabriel García Márquez is considered one of the great authors of present literature in Germany. Gabriel García Márquez's success culminated with the Nobel Prize in 1982 and now begins again through his autobiography, Living to Tell the Tale. Harald Irnberger, who has known Gabriel García Márquez and his works for thirty years, looks beyond the magic realism and into the political and journalistic aspects of Gabriel García Márquez. This book submits numerous facts and interpretations." -www.amazon.de
"El talento, la agudeza, y el humor de Gabriel García Márquez campean en este repertorio que contiene más de 350 acepciones recogidas de sus obras de ficción y de sus crónicas, e incluso de algunas de las pocas entrevistas que ha condedido en su vida."
"El propósito de hacer un glosario, segun la escritora Piedad Bonnett, es penetrar en el alma y el pensamiento del nobel colombiano [por una vía alterna, midiendo sus énfases y paseándonos por toda clase de tópicos, de lo ridículo a lo sublime, para gozar con su perspectiva del mundo]. Mundo garciamarquiano que en este libro comienza con la evocación del [acordeón] y termina con la palabra [zapato]."
Arango criticizes and analyzes eight authors (Hernán Cortéz, José Eustasio Rivera, Miguel Angel Asturias, Mariano Azuela, Agustín Yañéz, Juan Rulfo, Gabriel García Márquez, and Isabel Allende)on the impact of their writing, their styles, and their lives.
Edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom. Contains a biography, a few essays by García Márquez himself, and an essay on magical realism by Gerald Martin.