Viewed on 28 January, 2008.||"As it implies, Gabriel García Márquez's widely acclaimed Love in the Time of Cholera is a creative amalgam of two starkly contrasting elements: the sacredness of love and love's embodiment in often horrific, everyday experience. Ultimately, the transcendental power of spiritual love emerges as the beautifully rendered theme of this evocative, paradoxical masterwork."
Critical summary of the fourteen novelists that focus their work on violence. Grouping the novels by author, Arango systemizes the analysis of violence in each Colombian province through the writings of García Márquez, Álvaro Cepeda and Manuel Zapata, among others.
Secondary source, Reviews of Books About Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
1985
Published:
Madrid, Spain : Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Facultad de Ciencias de la Información
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
Panoramic description of the life and works of Gabriel García Márquez as a journalist divided in four chapters: on the Colombian coast, in Bogotá, in Europe, and in America as an international contributor. Each of these chapters corresponds to determined journalistic periods. Other than the circumstances of each work, the evolution of themes, basic structures, resources, and other formal characteristics of the writings are described. Also shown are the connections between his journalistic works and his literary works. Information about determined aspects of his political biography and direct testimonies of old companions from Bogotá are provided as well.
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
August, 1984
Published:
New York, NY : Kirkus Reviews
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
52(15) : 718
Notes:
Announcing the publication of the above work's translation by Rabassa and Bernstein, this article does a brief preview on its contents. Stating that most of the stories are assessed as brilliant, a few are found to be "strange and fragmentary."
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
Jan-Feb, 1983
Published:
Bogotá, Colombia : Editorial Pluma Ltda.
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
7(37) : 4-8
Notes:
The author presents two comparative tables of the top five books chosen by García Márquez and a poll done by the magazine. Pluma also publishes as an homage to García Márquez, the whole text of a response letter from Gabriel García Márquez to Rossana Rossanda in relation to an interview that she conducted with him. García Márquez refused to answer a question in person and preferred to write about it. This text had never been published other than in some columns that Gabriel García Márquez has used on the side.
Williams reviews major Colombian novels published during the 1970s, pointing out the influence of Cien años de soledad on Colombian writers, especially in the use of humor. He also states that El otoño del patriarca was the most important novel of the 1970s, which show a complex narrative technique. In it, García Márquez leaves behind Macondo and its inhabitants.
Secondary source, Reviews of Books About Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
1979
Published:
Madrid, Spain : Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Facultad de Filología
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
This dissertation seeks to outline a theory of the Spanish-American being through the art, following an interpretative method that traces certain symbolic constants, which in turn indicate a way of being more or less permanent. This thesis also analytically studies five novels and five themes: Pedro Páramo and ambiguity; Rayuela and intermittence; La casa verde and precariousness; El obsceno pájaro de la noche and insularity; and Cien años de soledad and fable. In a synthetic form, the problem of instability in the most transparent region can be seen.