Viewed on 29 January, 2008. "El gobierno de Irán decidió prohibir la más reciente novela del escritor colombiano Gabriel García Márquez, 'Memoria de mis putas tristes,' al argumentar que la autorización inicial para distribuirla se debió a un 'error burocrático,' informó ayer la agencia informativa local Fars."
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
April, 2003
Published:
Slate, MSN
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
Viewed on 24 January, 2008. ||Waldman states that novels are not selling as one would expect them to, mainly due to the lack of interest from the public in modern novels. Waldman reiterates that people would rather read the classics than read a modern novel; therefore, publishing companies will be spending more money on promoting classics.
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.
Reviews "Characteristics and Functions of Direct Quotes in Hispanic Fiction. A Linguistic Analysis", by Isolde Jordan. "Isolde Jordan's book is an attempt to apply pragmalinguistic methods of analysis to Hispanic short fiction, more specifically to Gabriel García Márquez's El coronel no tiene quien le escriba and to Carmen Laforet's Nada, mainly concentrating on the use of direct speech in these works."
Washington, DC : Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
(135) : 78-79
Notes:
Castro reviews the book Vivir para contarla or Living to Tell the Tale by Gabriel García Márquez, in relation to the beginnings of their friendship and their similar experiences.
London, UK : Routledge for the Institute of Psycho-Analysis
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
79(2) : pp. 317-331
Notes:
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
"En ocasión del XXVII festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano, y con la presencia del Premio Nobel de Literatura Gabriel García Márquez, el viernes 9 de diciembre quedó abierta en la Galería Latinoamericana de la Casa de las Américas la exposición Cien años de soledad al aguafuerte..."
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
July-Dec 2001
Published:
Costa Rica : Instituto de estudios latinoamericanos (IDELA)
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
12 : pp. 182-185
Notes:
Abril writes, "El 'XX Congreso Nacional de Literatura, Lingüística y Semiótica' eligió a Gabriel García Márquez, Premio Nobel de Literatura y uno de los más destacados escritores colombianos, para rendirle homenaje, al cumplir setenta años de vida y treinta años de la publicación de Cien años de soledad." The article discusses his influence on Latin American literature.
"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."