Primary source, The Narrative Works of Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
24 March, 2004
Published:
Ciudad Seva
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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Viewed on 31 March, 2008. Short story about two children who want a rowboat for Christmas and what they do with it when their parents leave for the evening.
In this article, Márquez discusses Merce Rodoreda's work "Invisible Woman." Rodoreda is hailed to be one of Spain's best post-civil war authors, and Márquez describes his experience in reading her work while in Barcelona, Spain.
Viewed on 25 March, 2008. This is the text of García Márquez's address at the First International Congress of the Spanish Language. He discusses the power of the word and calls for a return to grammatical precision.
Viewed on 25 March, 2008. García Márquez discusses artistic creation in Latin America, focusing on fantasy and the imagination. He says that, in the end, reality is a better author than any individual is.
Viewed on 27 March, 2008. Also available at http://www.ciudadseva.com/textos/teoria/opin/ggm4.htm.
In this article, García Márquez discusses the origins of storytelling.
Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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"This in-depth interview with Nobel Laureate Gabriel García Márquez is presented in the form of a conversation with an old friend he has not seen in a long while. The program is structured to suggest an apparent disorder of time. Assisted by readings and dramatizations of his works, the master of "magic realism" focuses on the supernatural aspects of his spellbinding narrative style, in an effort to convey his particular vision of the world." --Container
Alberto Delgado Carlos García Agraz, Jorge Sánchez, Laura Imperiale, Susana Cato, dir., music, prod., and storyline
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Primary source, Audio-visual Materials
Publication Date:
2003, 1990
Published:
Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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"Three weeks before her marriage in 1990, a young woman named Susana has a massive antique mirror hung on her bedroom wall. What is she to think when she discovers a soldier --circa 1863-- living in the room's reflection? And what are her family and fiancée to think, when having fallen deeply in love with him, Susana steps through the glass to enter his bygone world?" -www.films.com
Gabriel García Márquez, Fernando Luján, Marisa Paredes, Salma Hayek, Arturo Ripstein, Jorge Sánchez, Paz Alicia Garciadiego, and author
Format:
Primary source, Audio-visual Materials
Publication Date:
2003, 1999
Published:
Deerfield Beach, FL : Maverick Latino
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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An old colonel goes each Friday to the post office to see if his long-awaited pension has come through. He knows it will not, so does his wife who is still grieving over the death of their son the year before. The colonel has a mission: to elevate the grim routine of poverty and failure to a high mass of defiance. He does that by showing that a heart that has broken still beats with a vengeance.
Gabriel García Márquez, Manuel Barbachano Ponce, Carlos Fuentes, Roberto Gavaldón, Ignacio López Tarso, Lucha Villa, Narciso Busquets, Gabriel Figueroa, Gloria Schoemann, Ruben Fuentes, and au
Format:
Primary source, Audio-visual Materials
Publication Date:
2003, 1964
Published:
Chicago, IL : Cinemateca- Condor Video
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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Originally released as a motion picture in 1964. Based on the story of the same name by Juan Rulfo. ||A poor man forgets his roots in the fame, wealth, and romance of the cock-fighting arena. His luck runs out and he is returned to his origins.
Gabriel García Márquez, au. Harold Mantell, Ana Christina Navarro, prod., and dir
Format:
Primary source, Audio-visual Materials
Publication Date:
2003, 1982
Published:
Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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Presents a literary biography of Gabriel García Márquez, the Colombian novelist and Nobel prize winner, through conversations with the author, his friends, and his critics. Examines the course of García Márquez's life, the sources of his plots and characters, realism, a blending of the real and the fantastic, to the cultural diversity of the Caribbean. Explores the history of Colombia.
Gabriel García Márquez, Consuelo Garrido, José Luis García Agraz, and au
Format:
Primary source, Audio-visual Materials
Publication Date:
2003, 1992
Published:
Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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When a burglar named Hugo comes to rob the house of a woman whose husband is conveniently away on business, is it any surprise that he makes himself at home for the weekend? Linked by a passion for music and dance and a romantic notion of love, Hugo and Ana Luisa Guzman --host of his favorite radio show-- find in each other what has been missing in their otherwise sterile lives.
Eliseo Alberto Diego Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Gabriel García Márquez, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Mario García Joya, au., dir., screenplay, music, and photography
Format:
Primary source, Audio-visual Materials
Publication Date:
2003, 1988
Published:
Cuba : Cine Cubano
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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Matanzas, Cuba, 1913. Two shy young lovers enlist the help of a poet to write passionate letters to each other. When the poet becomes enamored of the young woman, the three are faced with a perplexing dilemma.
Gabriel García Márquez, Eliseo Alberto, and Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
Format:
Primary source, Audio-visual Materials
Publication Date:
2003, 1991
Published:
Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
On April 11, 1956, destiny (and a trivial mistake) sabotaged a plan by two young lovers to elope. But when a letter arrives 35 years later after it was mailed, Ofelia Rosales de Mendoza, one know as Ofelita "My Eyes," begins by making inquiries into the whereabouts of her lost parmour, José Luna. The conflicting stories she hears from the people who knew them as teenagers only increase her confusion -- until up walks the man himself, at the café where they were to rendezvous so many years before.
Comentator Katie Davis is assigned to interview Gabriel García Márquez. To accomplish this task, Davis uses García Márquez's friends. Davis interviews Alejandro Obregon, an old friend of Gabriel García Márquez. Here, Obregon contacts Gabriel García Márquez via telephone and Davis and Márquez speak.
Efraín Kristal Contributors: Edwin Williamson and Evelyn Fishburn
Format:
Primary source, Audio-visual Materials
Publication Date:
(January 4, 2007)
Published:
BBC
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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"Jorge Luis Borges is one of the greatest writers of the 20th Century, best known for his intriguing short stories that play with philosophical ideas, such as identity, reality and language. His work, which includes poetry, essays, and reviews of imaginary books, has had great influence on magical realism and literary theory. He viewed the realist novel as over-rated and deluded, revelling instead in fable and imaginary worlds. He declared “people think life is the thing but I prefer reading”.
Translation formed an important part of his work, writing a Spanish language version of an Oscar Wilde story when aged around 9. He went on to introduce other key writers such as Faulkner and Kafka to Latin America, liberally making changes to the original work which went far beyond what was, strictly speaking, translation.
He lived most of his life in obscurity, finding recognition only in his sixties when he was awarded the International Publishers' Prize which he shared with Samuel Beckett. By this point he was blind but continued to write, composing poetry in his head and reciting from memory.
So how has Borges' work informed ideas about our experience of the world through language? How much was his writing shaped by his travel abroad and an unrequited love? And how has his legacy inspired the next generation of great Latin American authors such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Mario Vargas Llosa?"-- BBC Website
Secondary source, Bibliographies on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
c2003
Published:
Bogotá : Norma
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
1006 p
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This is a two-volume translation of Gabriel García Márquez: A Descriptive Bibliography, published in 1998. Klein states that he searched in libraries and private collections held in different countries to compile this descriptive bibliography. He has made an effort to describe all the editions, publishers, format, and every aspect of García Márquez's works. Volume 2 includes a color illustration section of the covers of the different editions of many of his works.
"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.
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
March 2004
Published:
New York, NY : New York University
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
"The purpose of this study is to explore the intersection of literature and illness in order to demonstrate that the disease metaphor is an effective trope for Latin American authors seeking to represent topics that have been culturally and historically pathologized in both national society and/or literature. It analyzes the way the rhetoric of the somatic for pathological was used at the end of the 19th century. It also traces the development of this rhetoric into the following century. The dissertation begins with an overview of general literary theory, dealing with an overview of general literary theory and with disease and representation, focusing on Susan Sontag, Julia Epstein and Sander Gilman. It offers a linguistic perspective on the functioning of metaphor as well. By bringing the ideas of medical historian, Charles Rosenberg, to bear on this linguistic discussion, the author defines the notion of the frame and framing. Frames can be understood as being parallel to the concept of the artist's convention; they are constructs that inform the perception of diseases as both a biological event and a social occurrence. Tuberculosis, cholera, and sexually transmitted diseases (AIDS in particular) are the illnesses central to this study. The Latin American writers: Abraham Valdelomar, Manuel Puig, Gabriel García Márquez and Reinaldo Arenas employ metaphors with these diseases in order to engage specific socio-historic material via frames. Each of the three chapters concentrates on a theme that has come to serve as the basis for framing the various diseases; (homo)sexuality, gender, modernization, totalitarianism and plague. These same themes have also been recognized by various literary critics as essential to thinking and problematizing the construction of Latin American identity."
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
unknown
Published:
Louisiana, United States : Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
178 p.
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(Abstract) "Both William Faulkner and Gabriel García Márquez introduce the olfactory as a focal element in their writing, producing works that challenge the singular primacy of sight as the unrivaled means by which the New World might be understood...their fictional olfactory situations and language establish a critique of the modern era, of an all-too-Cartesian modernity in the world, and point to a new poetics specifically for the New World, where there might still be hope for the memory and the promise of a land that is 'fresh from the hand of God.'" Ph.D. Dissertation.
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
unknown
Published:
Connecticut, United States : Southern Connecticut State University
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
90 p.
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(Abstract) "In One Hundred Years of Solitude, the character development of the mater familias protagonist Ursula Iguarán along with her daughter, Amaranta Buendía and her daughter-in-law Rebeca Buendía are analyzed critically and theoretically through textual references and criticism...What we find are independent, desirable women subjects whose energetic determination empowers them and the society in which they live." M.A. Dissertation.
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.
The author discusses the presence of indigenous peoples, the Wayúu tribe, in the house where the author of Cien años de soledad grew up. In 1996, his sister, Ligia García Márquez confirmed these statements during an interview with Silvia Galvis.
Dubatti states that Of Love and Other Demons skillfully combines a fitted narration and a simple prose that privileges direct communication. He also continues to mention elements of García Márquez's works.
In all of the works of the famous Colombian author, Gabriel García Márquez, the theme of dreams is of outstanding importance in participating in magical realism. This article analyzes the use of dreams in the stories in Doce cuentos peregrinos.
This article analyzes the continuous presence of Darwinian elements in Gabriel García Márquez's works. For example, how the writer reduces and at the same time expands his pertinence. Almarza reflects on Gabriel García Márquez's texts, characters who live in the sun, humidity, rain and sea. The rain, the heat, and the humidity come to be the omnipresent element in his texts. It is a genetic mark; for Dostoyevsky this mark was the weight of individual conscience and for Balzac it is money or the inheritance of the characters, but for Gabriel García Márquez the genetic mark is the climatic presence of the Caribbean in his narrative creatures.
Dabove says that García Márquez seems to be doing his own "critique of practical reasoning" with his "grouping" and his "evaluation." Nonetheless, to recognize La mala hora as a narrative project with capabilities of appeal, the author proposes to read it with Frederic Jameson's notion of "national allegory." With these purposes, Dabove continues his analysis.
"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
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."
"So it's appropriate that this master synthesizer of high and popular culture, who wrote One Hundred Years of Solitude listening only to Debussy's preludes and the Beatles" "A Hard Day's Night," ends the first volume of his projected three-part memoir with a cliffhanger... The next installments may or may not appear-- García Márquez, 75, is recovering from cancer-- and though he's surely the world's most influential living writer, we may or may not stay tuned." -Gates
Viewed on 24 January, 2008.||"With the upcoming memoirs of García Márquez, here we present some episodes of his life that have been ignored, starting with the reading of Cómo aprendió a escribir García Márquez, an investigation by author and journalist, Jorge García Usta."
"This month, Gabriel García Márquez's Living to Tell the Tale (Vivir para contarla) comes to an American audience, neatly coinciding with a PEN American Center tribute to the author on November 5. Already a best seller in the Spanish-speaking world, this new work is the first volume in an epic trilogy of García Márquez's life."
García Marruz briefly discusses each of Gabriel García Márquez's important writings by intertwining them into one big story. She proceeds to compare García Márquez to Cervantes and other writers.
Cabañas Bravo examines the representation of violence in three Colombian narrative works: La virgen de los Sicarios (1994) by Fernando Vallejo, Noticia de un secuestro (1996) by Gabriel García Márquez, and Rosario Tijeras (1999) by Jorge Franco Ramos. Precisely, the hitman figure becomes an allegoric figure, through which the complexities of the issue of violence in society are explored. These narrative works recompose the contradictions, hypocrisies and tricks of the moral and social codes of Colombia, as well as offering new interpretations of the hitman as a symptom of deeper sociopolitical issues. This literature demythifies the causes of violence, deconstructing the myths created by the elite class.
Kowalski discusses the purchase of Cambio 16, a Colombian magazine by Gabriel García Márquez and a group of journalists. He also brings out the financial problems suffered by the magazine. Concludes with comments from the magazine's publisher Patricia Lara."
Santiago, Chile : Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades, Departamento de Literatura
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
(61) : 145-185
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"This article represents an "analysis" and "interpretation" (Kayser) of García Márquez, particularly of his most famous novel. The psychosemantics in the title already reveals the power of myth, displayed in the archetype (Jung) of Macondo, Úrsula, of Time, etc. The perspective applied to the novel includes and integrates psychohistorical, psychomythological and ethnopsychological dimensions, clearly in the vanguard of contemporary psychology. This interpretation not only appeals to Freud and Jung, but also to the psychological and social sciences of the Latin America of today." -Abstract at the end of article
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.
Pittsburgh, PA : Instituto Nacional de Literatura Iberoamericana
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
68(201) : 1067-1080
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Olsen analyzes the African presence in Del amor y otros demonios, in which this culture takes a very central and explicit role, unlike in his other narrative works. This essay proposes that the novel, by giving a multitude of colonially-marginalized characters a voice, participates in a project to question colonialism and modernity that has traditionally silenced and excluded these groups in Latin American literary works.
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.
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.
"First there will be a brief technical outline of the relationship between fiction and history, for which I owe a good part of my reflection to the work of Paul Ricoeur, as well as to authors such as Hayden White, Le Goff, Roger Chartier, Frederick Jameson, Beatriz Sarlo, Roberto Schwarz and Antonio Cándido. Secondly, I will present an outline focusing on Colombian literature, still in process, from two novels, Pax by José María Rivas Groot y Lorenzo Marroquín, and One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez. I am unsure how conscious is the relationship between the two, but what is certain is that the first influences the intention of the second."
"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."