"For longtime readers of Gabriel García Márquez, Living to Tell the Tale will be as welcome as a cool breeze, and cause the same sort of full-body shiver. The first volume of a projected autobiographical trilogy from the Colombian Nobel laureate, Living to Tell the Tale is genuinely surprising in what it reveals of the writer's early life, his writing, and how the two interweave." -Wiersema
"A multicultural and pluriethnic country like Colombia, composed of regions so varied and governed by a political-administrative system so centralized and which needs such substantial changes, requires a history of its literature concomitant with its nature and the cultural processes that are occurring here. As a symbolic meditation on a society and as an expression of its individual and collective realities, literature plays a determining role in the configuration of our identities. To advocate this will better equip us to enter into a dialogue with all the cultures of this planet, an option that is today possible thanks to the communication revolution which has made a reality of the global village spoken by McLuhan."
Also published in English in the Paris Review (no. 166, 2003). In November 2000, Paternostro landed in Barranquilla from New York. Her mission was not to write the counterpart of Gabriel García Márquez's memoirs, but to reconstruct Gabriel García Márquez's life by a rich American magazine, that probably didn't know that Gabriel García Márquez himself was writing his memoirs. This extensive article narrates the story and findings of Paternostro while in Colombia.
"The writer contends that Colombian author and Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez presents a dismal social portrait of Latin America in several of his books, including the first volume of his memoirs, Living to Tell the Tale."
Lewis suggests several books that have been especially selected for their currency of pertinence to events or people in the news. These include Teaching as a Subversive Activity by Postman and Charles Weingartner, Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich, and One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez.
This is the real story that originated as a movie script, then as a movie, then became a journalistic article, and finally a literary story. This article tells the story of how Un cuento peregrino by García Márquez came to be what we know today.
"Penetrating analyses of novels and short stories by the most eminent writers of today: Sábato, Cortázar, Onetti, Roa Bastos, Arguedas, Vargas Llosa, García Márquez, Carpentier, Yáñez, Rulfo, and others."
Viewed on 24 January, 2008.||"The Autumn of the Patriarch, the second of Gabriel García Márquez's three masterworks, to this day remains something of a middle child: taken for granted, overlooked, misunderstood. One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) is his best known novel, his most admired, most imitated and most honored. Love in the Time of Cholera (1985) is his most beloved, one of the great love stories of world literature. But The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975) is widely believed to be difficult, inaccessible and even unpleasant."