Austin, TX : African-American and Afro-American Studies and Research Center, University of Texas
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Library, University of Illinois
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37(1) : 28
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The author engages García Márquez and his work in her discussion of magical realism. The abstract reads as follows: "Congolese novelist Sony Labou Tansi has been widely celebrated as a leader in the revival of francophone African letters that took place in the 1980's. In the process, commentators have repeatedly insisted on affiliating him with the tradition of magical realism. Using his first novel, "La vie et demie" [Life and a Half], as a case study, this essay argues that this exclusive focus on magical realism at the expense of other, perhaps more significant, literary traditions (such as science fiction) continues to be a problematic misreading of the novel. Ultimately, this conceptualization of Tansi's literary output once again reduces the African writer to a conduit for endless reiterations of a reified irrationality- precisely the role that Labou Tansi, by introducing science fiction into his narrative, seeks to escape."
Pearl reviews the fiction book One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez, presenting us with a brief summary of the plot and commenting that One Hundred Years of Solitude "records the tumultuous lives of the Buendia family and the town's other inhabitants in a compulsive narrative that follows their loves, madnesses, wars, alliances, compromises, dreams, and deaths-- sweeping us up in its exquisite and poetic rendering of the passions and the pains of life."
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
November, 2002
Published:
City Pages
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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23(1144)
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Viewed on 24 January, 2008.||"Put it this way: Gabriel García Márquez would never get a job with PBS. He could never follow the Universal clock: the broadcasting rule that all documentaries must fit in a 52-minute slot."
United States : North American Congress on Latin America
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Library, University of Illinois
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33(6) : pp. 34-42
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Coronil mentions García Márquez's perspective on Hugo Chavez's future as a revolutionary leader. He is quoted as saying, "I was overwhelmed by the feeling that I had just been traveling and chatting pleasantly with two opposing men. One to whom the caprices of fate had given an opportunity to save his country. The other, an illusionist, who could pass into the history books as just another despot.."
"Zakes Mda's previous novels have been compared, flatteringly, to the work of Gabriel García Márquez and to Chinua Achebe's classic "Things Fall Apart.""
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
January, 2004
Published:
Columbia, MO : Ciberayllu
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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Viewed on 24 January, 2008.|Hood recollects that in 1986 when he began writing his doctoral dissertation about the narrative work of Gabriel García Márquez, he traveled to Colombia to experience first hand the land that had given birth to García Márquez and his work.
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
July-September, 2003
Published:
World Literature Today
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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23-27
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"The two most successful novelists in the history of Colombian literature, both in terms of critical acclaim and in terms of prizes won, are two old friends, Álvaro Mutis and Gabriel García Márquez, who have known each other for more than half a century."
The author states " Marasmo es el largometraje número trece de la historia del cine nacional –número cabalístico- ¿de buena o mala suerte?, el filme marca una nueva etapa en la cinematografía del país."
Read discusses Bucheli's Bananas and Business and the negative reputation the United Fruit Company has. He states that "This interpretation came early to Colombian critics after a 1928 massacre of striking workers left hundreds, maybe thousands, dead. Gabriel García Márquez exaggerated the details of this violence for One Hundred Years of Solitude, and few others have believed the company did more good than harm."
Studies Mariano Picon Salas and his writings. Discusses his intellectual and humanistic qualities and his various influences in writing, critiquing, and developing essays. Briefly compares his historical works to other other authors including "Miguel Otero Silva y Arturo Uslar Pietri, Francisco Herrera Luque, Denzil Romero, Mario Vargas Llosa and Gabriel García Márquez."