The author chooses to analyze how after Gabriel García Márquez won the Nobel prize, his novel reaches a broad diffusion, almost losing its roots, thus becoming pertinent that these be traced, reconstructing, piece by piece, the passionate process with which a writer comes to be who he is, in a continuous counterpoint of exploration of the reality and assimilation of the literary forms that allow him to express himself.
Gil Flores compares and contrasts the movie "El coronel no tiene quien le escriba," directed by the Mexican director, Arturo Ripstein, and the book that inspired the movie, by Gabriel García Márquez.
The first volume of the memoirs of the Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez, Vivir para contarla, first appeared on December 10, 2002 in its German translation, Leben, um davon zu erzählen. It was sold out even before it was on sale because of the amount of reserves done.
Viewed on 24 January, 2008.|Gabriel García Márquez completely neglects the expositions of nominalism and in One Hundred Years of Solitude and proposes a system of characters founded on the conception of realism, this is, one in which the axiollogy appears natural and undissolubly linked to the name.
García Usta states that even though Cartagena was where one of the fundamental periods in the literary and journalistic formation of Gabriel García Márquez, and even though Cartagena is the second most important stage -- real, fictional, or multipurpose-- after Macondo, it has been subtly disdained by the most divulged interpretation of his literary genesis.
"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."
After admitting for a long time, and in some cases in a simple and compliant manner, the definition of Colombia as a "land of poets" and of Bogotá as "The Athens of South America," new writers and scholars put these concepts on trial and try to formulate a literary and different cultural conscience,while giving explanations to thought and the expressive forms of the past.
"He had always been the most disciplined of writers, sitting early in the morning before his trusty Macintosh, the magical, poetic words that have defined Latin America spilling from his head. That part never changed. But then Gabriel García Márquez, the 1982 Nobel laureate from Colombia and the foremost author in Latin America, learned in 1999 that he had lymphatic cancer."
This essay discusses Gabriel García Márquez's first volume of his memoirs, Vivir para contarla, and goes into deeper analysis of what constitutes a memoir. The author also discusses Gabriel García Márquez's genius at keeping the reader hooked onto his book.
Arango asserts that by trying to take on the theme of women in García Márquez, what stands out is the abundant absence of critical studies specific to the theme. In general, the themes most studied are social-historical affairs related to Latin American and Colombian history, intertextual relationships of style and the maturity of the author in the building of a national and popular art, and of course biographical themes.