"Focuses on Edith Grossman's translations of Spanish literary masterpieces into the English language. Career background; Challenges in translating the works of Gabriel García Márquez; Background on her translation of "Don Quixote" by Miguel de Cervantes; Efforts of Grossman to promote literary works by lesser known Spanish writers; Faithfulness of literary translations."
"The bogus bootleg caper provided a surprise twist, and a flood of free publicity, to the book's Latin American release. The 112-page novella, [Gabriel García Márquez's] first major work of fiction in a decade, presents itself as the account of a washed-up newspaper columnist's desire to celebrate his 90th birthday by having sex with a young prostitute."
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
August, 2004
Published:
Manchester, UK : The Guardian Unlimited
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
Viewed on 28 January, 2008.||"Unswerving defender of Fidel Castro and Latin American literary patriarch he may be, but Gabriel García Márquez appears to have finally succumbed to Hollywood's call, signing over the film rights to Love in the Time of Cholera."
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
May, 2003
Published:
London, UK : BBC News Corporation
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
Viewed on 24 January, 2008.||"Leading Latin American writer Gabriel García Márquez has denied reports that he called for the legislation of drugs in his native Colombia as a way of ending widespread violence in the country. Mr. García Márquez- who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982- said he was against the legalization of drugs and that he had been misquoted."
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
July 6, 2004
Published:
New York, NY : The New York Times
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
153(52902) : E2
Notes:
Reports that authors like Woody Allen, Gabriel García Márquez and Margaret Atwood have contributed without fee or royalty to the book Telling Tales, a story collection compiled by Nadine Gordimer. Donation of the sales of the book to HIV and AIDS preventive education and medical treatment.
Analyzes " El mar de las lentejas" by Antonio Benítez Rojo. Briefly mentions similarities between this work and "Crónica de una muerte anunciada" by Gabriel García Márquez.
"Chock-full of hyperbole, symbolism, magic, tragedy and a good sense of humor, West Texans will be taken on a mystical and solemn ride through Latin America, courtesy of renown Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez. 'One Hundred Years of Solitude,' the most well-known and recognized work of the Nobel Prize winner, will be the topic of discussion Friday during the monthly meeting of UTPB's Spanish Literature Club. It has been translated into many languages, including English. With symbolism, folk tales and other literary elements usually found in Latin American literature, the book is considered by many critics the best Spanish Language contemporary novel, bested only by 'Don Quixote,' said Rhina Toruno-Haensly, adviser and founder of the club and professor of literature at the University of Texas of the Permian Basin."
Salamanca, Spain : Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
27(2) : 27-40
Notes:
"After locating US writer Jeffrey Eugenides against the background of recent minimalist fiction, this essay evaluates the influence of García Márquez's narratives 'Cien años de soledad' and 'Crónica de una muerte anunciada' on his first novel, 'The Virgin Suicides'. Centered on the novel's magical-realist features, the contrastive analysis contends that 'The Virgin Suicides' revives a distinctive modernist mythical impulse. Based on its literary borrowings, this impulse materializes in the endorsement of ancestral beliefs in a female principle and in the ethical demand to put an end to the gradual annihilation of the planet by post-industrial societies."
Swanson reviews 'Temptation of the Word: The Novels of Mario Vargas LLosa' by Efrain Kristal, 'Carlos Fuentes, Mexico, and Modernity' by Maarten van Delden, 'Julio Cortazar: New Readings' edited by Carlos J. Alonso, and 'Manuel Puig Ante La Critica: Bibliografia Analitica Y Comentada' by Guadalupe Marti-Pena.
In his review, he mentions that García Márquez's "boom" novel Cien años de soledad is different from the works of other major boom writers such as Vargas Llosa, Fuentes, and Cortazar.