"Twenty years after Gabriel García Márquez received the Nobel prize, Ronaldo Menéndez, literary critic and lecturer, offers a de-mythified version of his creative world."
"When reciting the many qualities of Gabriel García Márquez's writing, critics invariably include his humor. Unfortunately, when readers have to read works in translation, they often miss much of the richness of the original work, including the humor. However, Gregory Rabassa's English translation of García Márquez still provides many linguistic pleasures, not the least of which is the discovery of symbolic repetitions and of the multilayered references submerged within an apparently simple sentence-particularly those that begin the different chapters. Indeed, this joy of discovery often erupts in outright guffawing when we realize that the devilish author frequently turns the references ironically on our expectations and even, on occasion, deliberately misleads us."
"Presents a contextual analysis of the books 'A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings,' by Gabriel García Márquez and 'The Lesson,' by Toni Cade Bambara. Overview of the story of each book; Subjects discussed in the books; Characters in the books."
This critical essay examines the theme of love in Gabriel García Marquez's work, which the author claims is "depicted as a doom, a demonic possession, a disease that, once contracted, cannot easily be cured."
Salamanca, Spain : Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos
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27(2) : 27-40
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"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."
"In her article, 'Memory and the Quest for Family History in One Hundred Years of Solitude and Song of Solomon,' Susana Vega-González explores similarities between the novels of García Márquez and Morrison with a special focus on the use of memory and imagination. Based on theoretical models, Vega-González proposes that fictional representations are a means of rewriting history, a particular aspect of literary discourse. The texts under scrutiny constitute true quest stories of characters who search for their family history along their own identity amidst the dangers of capitalism and its excessive desire for progress and class ascent. The break with advocacy of hybridity are some of the features that link Morrison and García Márquez with magical realism, a literary mode that contributes to their rewriting of a history peopled with the ghosts of slavery, colonialism, and imperialism."
"Communities of people have different ways of explaining the world around them and events that occur to them, and these codes for interpreting reality can clash when brought into contact with each other. Latin American writers and scholars have often said that such a clash produces the atmosphere we have come to label magical realist in literature; construing the theory in quite territorial terms, they have claimed that the specific circumstances of Latin America have produced magical realism. In this essay, I explore the use if magical realism in a famous episode from García Márquez's 'Cien años de soledad'. The instance of the insomnia plague has fascinated readers and has attracted various interpretations from academics; these have usually been centered around cultural readings. I explore the passage from three distinct perspectives, cultural, historical and literary. García Márquez's 'Cien años de soledad' is a work rich in historical and literary sources, and in order to help determine the impact of political and cultural happenings upon his work, I have also referred extensively to García Márquez's recently published memoirs, which have enabled me to make reasoned judgments about the different spheres of influence upon García Márquez's work."
"Ahora que el realismo mágico es un capítulo de la historia de la literatura hispanoamericana, 'Cien años de soledad' revela su capacidad inagotada para tolerar y aun proponer nuevas significaciones, y entre ellas merece atención la que cabe relacionar con García Márquez y con su necesidad de dejar testimonio de su infacia, trascurrida en una casa grande y muy triste, con una hermana que comía tierra, una abuela que adivinaba el porvenir, un abuelo que evocaba recuerdos incesantes de una interminable guerra civil y numerosos parientes de nombres iguales que nunca alcanzaron a percibir claramente los límites que seraraban la demencia y la felicidad."
Santiago de Chile, Chile : Editorial Universidad Católica
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"El presente trabajo es parte del Seminario de Graduación del Depto. de Castellano en esta Universidad titulado 'Cien años de soledad, una novela mítica'. El seminario fue dirigido por la Prof. Adriana Valdés y en él participaron las siguientes alumnas: Sara Almarza, Inés Araya, Carmen Foxley, M. Elena Rodríguez, M. Isabel Spoerer, Marta Ulfe y Carmen Avaria."
Caleb Bach discusses Gregory Rabassa, a translator of many famous Latin American Works. He talks about the Rabassa's greatest qualities as a veteran translator and the effects of his work in the preservation of writings by many Latin American authors, including Gabriel García Márquez.
Mary Lusky Friedman discusses the Memoirs of Isabel Allende and Alma Guillermoprieto. She compares and contrasts the works of these prominent writers to those of the Boom writers, including Gabriel García Márquez.
This article lists the Neustadt Laureates from 1970 through 2006. It also lists the Puterbaugh Fellows from 1968 through 2005. Gabriel García Márquez was a 1972 Laureate.
Washington, D.C. : Organisation of American States
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57(1) : p. 64
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This article presents a short story written by Gabriel García Márquez about man named Abel Quezada. The story focuses on the issues dealing with Quezada's life and his personal troublings.
Washington, D.C. : Organisation of American States
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59(3) : pp. 78-95
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Contreras discusses Mario Vargas Llosa's studies on Gabriel García Márquez and his work "Cien años de soledad." Contreras talks about the controversy as to why some of Llosa's work had not been translated and the issues with its publication.
Washington, D.C. : Organization of American States
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63(4) : pp. 656-658
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Rosario studies and discusses the cultural and social implications of Ignacio López-Calvo's "God and Trujillo". Along with other analysis of the work, Rosario focuses on Calvo's view of Gabriel García Márquez, among others, during the dictatorship of Trujillo.
Arlington, VA : Society for Latin American Anthropology
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12(1) : pp. 254-255
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Aizenberg studies the Latin American narrative and issues reflecting the "boom" era, but focuses on Latin American writings before the 1960's phenomena.
"This article, inspired by a TV interview with the Nobel Prize-winner Gabriel García Márquez, revises the ways that the fiction in One Hundred Years of Solitude has been accepted as history. In particular, it raises some questions about how literary critics and historians have accepted as history Garci?a Ma?rquez's rendition of the events during the strike that took place in Colombia in 1928. It examines the repressive nature of the Colombian regime and of the strike itself; it also examines the idea that following the strike there was a sort of 'conspiracy of silence' to erase the truth from the nation's history."
"In the present review of twelve pieces produced by distinguished 20th century Latin American writers--Jorge Luis Borges from Argentina, Jorge Amado and Joa?o Ubaldo Ribeiro from Brazil, Jose? Donoso from Chile, Gabriel Garci?a Ma?rquez from Colombia, Alejo Carpentier from Cuba, Miguel Angel Asturias from Guatemala, Octavio Paz from Mexico, Mario Vargas Llosa from Peru?, Horacio Quiroga and Mario Benedetti from Uruguay and Arturo Uslar-Pietri from Venezuela--paragraphs or parts of paragraphs in which parasitological or entomological situations of the most varied hues are referred to or described, have been extracted in a selective form. Sometimes in these descriptions appear, local or regional expressions, without ignoring colorful folklore representations. For a easier interpretation these or part of these paragraph sentences have been arranged by thematic similarities. In a varied and kaleidoscopic vision, it will be possible to find protozoiasis (malaria, Chagas disease, leishmaniasis, amebiasis), helminthiases (ascariasis, hydatidosis, trichinosis, schistosomiasis, cysticercosis, onchocerciasis), parasitoses produced by arthropods (pediculosis, scabies, tungiasis, myiasis), passing progressively to hemaphagous arthropods (mosquitoes, gnats, horse flies, bedbugs, ticks), venomous arthropods (Latrodectus spiders, scorpions, wasps, bees), mechanical vectors (flies and cockroaches), culminating with a conjunction of bucolic arthropods (butterflies, crickets, grasshoppers cicadas, ants, centipedes, beetles, glow worms, dragonflies)." --Scopus
Emil Volek discusses José Marti's work and the evolution of Mocondo and magical realism in Latin American literature. The article evaluates, among other aspects, the influence of authors such as Gabriel García Márquez on the establishment of magical realism.
Juan Ángel Juristo examines the role of women in Spanish fiction. he discusses the increasing role women play in the politics, social dynamics, and economy of Spain. Juristo comments on the style of various authors and analyzes differences between Gabriel García Márquez and other prominent writers.
Ortega discusses the history of Cervantes' Don Quixote and the role of alternative spaces and locations in relation to the novel. He comments on Gabriel García Márquez' view that the climate in the valley is fresh and that people do not sleep in Cartagena to see the dawn of the Caribbean world.
New York, NY : Casa de las Españas, Columbia University
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58(1/2) : pp. 175-184
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Earle studies the role of memory and imagination in Latin American nations. He focuses many influential and cultural factors including the works of Gabriel García Márquez.
Opinion. Comments on the ways that the fiction in the book, `One Hundred Years of Solitude,' was accepted as history, with reference to a television interview with Nobel Prize-winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Reaction of literary critics and historians to Garcia Marquez's rendition of the events during the strike that took place in Colombia during 1928; Examination of the repressive nature of the Colombian regime and of the strike.
London, UK : Routledge for the Institute of Psycho-Analysis
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79(2) : pp. 317-331
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In this paper the author discusses the situation of children handed over to grandparents or to other relatives of the natural parents to be brought up. She notes that such children are faced with the riddle of their own filiation and postulates that this scenario often conceals an oedipal fantasy to the effect that the child concerned is the fruit of an incestuous relationship between a grandparent and the relevant parent. Following the example of Freud, the author adduces literary models for illustration. As with the Oedipus of Sophocles, the author shows how efforts to thwart the workings of fate actually bring about the consummation of the tragedy in the form of incest, which is favoured by the confused oedipal configuration in the families of handed-over children. The main argument is based on the characters and situations of two novels by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, written at different times in his life. With reference to the psychoanalytic literature on artistic creativity, the author shows the importance of the mid-life crisis in determining how Garcia Marquez came to terms with the fact of having himself been entrusted to grandparents as a child and how this situation is reflected in the works concerned.-- Scopus
"The article presents several lists of books related to Spanish literature featured in the publications of John Butt including "Writers and Politics in Modern Spain," by Hodder and Stoughton, 'Miguel de Unamuno: San Miguel Bueno, 'San Manuel Bueno, mártir,' by Grant and Cutler, 'A New Reference Grammar of Modern Spanish,' by Edward Arnold", and 'The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor,' by Gabriel García Márquez.
Méndez analyzes the works of Gabriel García Márquez, Jorge Luis Borges, and Pablo Neruda. He takes into account their impact as writers and their role in creating works of historical significance.
Hart studies and analyzes Simón Bolívar. He studies his impact in Latin America and provides biographical and informational data. The end of the article details information on Bolívar's portrayal in García Márquez' work El general en su laberinto.
Philip Swanson analyzes Isabel Allende and her work, "La Casa de los Espíritus." In the article, Swanson notes the similarities between Allende's work and the work of García Márquez, particularly in "Cien Años de Soledad." Swanson states that the work of Allende is considered an "invert" of García Márquez rather than an "imitation" of it.
Chile : Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Instituto de Letras
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36 : pp. 177-186
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Macarena Areco writes about the rise of the hybrid novel in Spain and Latin America. In the article, Ignacio Padilla speaks about the Boom writers, including García Márquez.
Rodero states: "The fantastic represents a constant in Latin American narrative of the 20th Century. This article analyzes the presence and evolution of this narrative mode in Latin American literature through the study of four short stories, each representing a different literary trend: the ‘modernismo’ of marvelous tone (‘El ángel caído,’ Amado Nervo), the demystifying magical realism (‘Un señor muy viejo con unas alas enormes,’ Gabriel García Márquez), the transgressive post-boom (‘El ángel caído,’ Cristina Peri Rossi), and the feminist post-modernism (‘Moraleja para ángeles,’ Sonia González Valdenegro). The main theories on the fantastic are reviewed and used in the particular analysis of the short stories: from the classic distinction established by Todorov between the marvelous, the uncanny, and the fantastic to the most recent critical studies (Lucie Armitt, Remo Ceserani, etc.), including other decisive and essential contributions such as those by Rosemary Jackson and Irène Bessière."
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"Mestizo y seminal como el continente en que rebrota, el género de la crónica, tan cultivado en tiempos de la conquista y de la colonia en América para dar noticia al emperador Carlos I de España y V de Alemania de los asuntos de Indias, no sólo es relevante por su carácter histórico y su relación con otros géneros, sino tambiénpor ser, como señala Gabriel García Márquez en su discurso de recepción del premio Nobel de literatura, el germen de nuestras novelas de hoy, es decir el origen de lo que sería la principal tendencia artística de las letras hispanoamericanas del siglo XX; el realismo mágico o lo [real maravilloso], como lo denominó su creador, Alejo Carpentier, algunas décadas atrás, término que, a pesar de haberse aplicado indiscriminadamente como rótulo a demasiados novelistas hispanoamericanos, acabó por convertirse en el sello personal del Nobel colombiano."
"Las novelas de Gabriel García Márquez y Augusto Roa Bastos abarcan temas grandes y variados. Con fecuencia sus obras se enfrentan con historias tanto nacionales como continentales, historias latinoamericanas que residen entre el mito y el archivo. 'El otoño del patriarca' (1975) y 'Yo el Supremo' (1974) son novelas del dictador que juegan con el concepto del poder, tratando el poder desde el lado de la impotencia o, másprecisamente, desde el lado de la muerte. En realidad, la muestra de la doble cara del poder es solamente uno de los desdoblamientos que sirve de base estructural y temática de estas dos obras en las que cada elemento se transforma en su contrario: la vida en la muerte, la muerte en la vida, el gran ditador en ser miserable y solitario, y el héroe en traidor. Cada una de las dos obras ocupa el lugar entre dos muertes, y es interesante notar también que cada dictador tiene su doble--o dobles. Es como si el dictador tuviera dos cuerpos, uno natural y sujeto a las leyes de la biología y otro de otra sustancia, quizás sublime o sobrenatural, que perduraría en el tiempo, o por lo menos dentro de los límites de la narrativa. En este ensayo propongo explorar a fondo las relaciones entre el cuerpo y el poder del dictador." (From article)
"'All the great writers have good eyes' is a sentence by V. Nabokov that is very suitable for G.G. Márquez and his One Hundred Years of Solitude. The novel, published in 1967, introduces among many others, the character of little Rebeca, whose frailness and greenish skin revealed hunger 'that was older than she was'. The girl, because of a pica syndrome, only liked to eat earth and the cake of whitewash. But her fate appears to be determined by the lethal insomnia plague, whose most fearsome part was not the impossibility of sleeping but its inexorable evolution toward a loss of memory in which the sick person 'sinks into a kind of idiocy that had no past'. Rebeca's lethal insomnia looks quite similar to the 'peculiar, fatal disorder of sleep' originally described by Lugaresi et al. in 1986. One Hundred Years of Solitude shows that G.G. Márquez was gifted not only with good eyes, but has the seductive power of changing reality into fantasy, while transforming his visions into reality."-- Scopus
This entire issue is dedicated to Gabriel García Márquez. It includes articles from the following authors: Teodosio Fernández, Lorena E. Roses, Ana Gallego Cuñas, Alvaro Salvador, Julio Ortega, José Miguel Oviedo, Anibal González, Jacques Joset, José Manuel Camacho, Angel Esteban and Juan Gustavo Cobo Borda. All of the articles are included in this bibliography.
"El canon literario por su parte ha venido idealizando la mujer en su imaginidad pureza mientras que al mismo tiempo la margina y demoniza cuando no se subordina a la autoridad masculina. No ocurre esto, sin embargo, en 'Cien años de soledad. A pesar de que la crítica ha venido afirmando que se puede clasificar a los personajes femeninos según la dictomía citada, un relectura a la luz tanto de la teología feminista como de la mitología potencia una interpretación mucho más matizada."
Madrid, Spain : Insula, Librería, Ediciones y Publicaciones, S.A.
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62(723) : pp. 9-12
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"Uno de los rasgos más característicos de la obra de Gabriel García Márquez - y de los menos comentados - es su extraño recorrido inverso. Normalmente, la trayectoria de un escritor suele ir desde un periodo inicial, de aprendizaje e imitación en el que se practican ciertos modelos literarios establecidos y se homenajea a los grandes maestros de la tradición, hasta un momento de madurez en el que, poco a poco, y habitualmente con lentitud y dudas, el autor contruye su propio mundo. En el caso del maestro colombiano, como digo, el recorrido ha sido el inverso, García Márquez inicia su trayectoria literaria con la obsesión por la construcción de un mundo, el mundo mítico de Macondo, y a esa obsesión están dedicadas sus primeras obras, 'La Hojarasca,' 'El coronel no tiene quien le escriba,' 'Los funerales de la Mamá Grande,' 'La mala Hora'..., hasta conseguir recrearlo en su obra maestra 'Cien años de soledad.'"
Madrid, Spain : Insula, Librería, Ediciones y Publicaciones, S.A.
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62(723) : pp. 12-15
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"En 'Del amor y otros demonios' (1994) Gabriel García Márquez parecía confiar en lectores a los que la lectura pone al borde del llanto. Se diría que así como anteriormente había escrito novelas que lo esperaban casi todo de la risa, de la crítica o de la nostalgia, ésta nos convoca a llorar."
Madrid, Spain : Insula, Librería, Ediciones y Publicaciones, S.A.
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62(723) : pp. 15-16
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"Que un hombre conciba el plan de reglarse a sí mismo, en la víspera de sus noventa años, una noche de placer con una joven virgen suena como algo del todo imposible, aparte de ridículo, pero en las manos de Gabriel García Márquez esa delirante fantasía erotica se convierte, no solo en una situación plausible, sino también en una historia conmovedora y llena de una delicada y profunda sabiduría humana."
Madrid, Spain : Insula, Librería, Ediciones y Publicaciones, S.A.
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62(723) : pp. 16-18
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"A lo largo de la extensa obra de Gabriel García Márquez el tema amoroso se has hecho presente de manera cada vez más significativa, desde los [amores difíciles] que, entre muchos otros cataclismos, sufren los personajes de 'Cien años de soledad' (1967), hasta los no menos arduos amores que ocupan el centro de las tres novelas que el maestro colombiano ha dedicado con exclusividad a ese tema: 'Cronica de una muerte anunciada' (1981), 'El amor en los tiempos de cholera' (1985), y 'Del amor y otros demonios' (1994)."
Madrid, Spain : Insula, Librería, Ediciones y Publicaciones, S.A.
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62(723) : pp. 19-21
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"Consabido es que el Tiempo constituye el núcleo duro de la semántica de as ficciones de Gabriel García Márquez, incluso en las memorias del protagonista nonagenario de su última novela publicada. Tan evidentes son dos temáticas que se injertan en el tronco de Cronos y cruzan casi todos los textos del imaginación del Nobel colombiano: los amores difíciles y el Poder."
Madrid, Spain : Insula, Librería, Ediciones y Publicaciones, S.A.
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62(723) : pp. 21-24
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"García Márquez descubrió a Sófocles en los años cincuenta, de la mano de sus compañeros cartageneros y muy especialmented de su amigo Gustavo Ibarra Merlano -Catedrático de griego-, quien fue uno de los primeros en leer el manuscrito de 'La hojarasca' y en señalar su extraordinario parecido con la 'Antígona' de Sófocles."
Madrid, Spain : Insula, Librería, Ediciones y Publicaciones, S.A.
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62(723) : pp. 24-26
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"Lo que más eleva al hombre por encima de cualquier ser es la capacidad para traer constantemente al recuerdo, y hacer vivas, las experiencias pasadas, o bien inventarlas. García Márquez es consciente de ello y por eso decidió, desde muy joven, dedicar su vida a contar."
Madrid, Spain : Insula, Librería, Ediciones y Publicaciones, S.A.
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62(723) : pp. 27
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"No se necesita ver y palpar una tierra para amarla sin remedio. Basta con imaginarla, a través de la buena literatura que García Márquez leyó antes de llegar a ella. La imaginación literaria parece llegar antes que los propios pies."
Jeffrey Lamb analyzes and reviews Humberto Crosthwaite's novel, El Gran Pretender. In the critical essay he discusses how Crosthwaite is "the product of a university education that presented canonical writers from both Mexico and Latin America, including those of the "Boom": Julio Cortazar, Mario Vargas Llosa, Carlos Fuentes, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez."