Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
October, 2002
Published:
Bogotá, Colombia : El Tiempo
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
Available with subscription.||This is an editorial essay which provides some information about Gabriel García Márquez's memoirs, Vivir para contarla and includes some details provided in the book. It also states how not only is Gabriel García Márquez making his family proud, but he is also the pride of Colombia, of those who speak his same language, of those who also share the same kind of job. Vivir para contarla is not only the life of Gabriel García Márquez, but also the story, an allegory of the Colombia full of violence, magic, solitude, austerity, horror, creative spirit, and ghosts.
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
September, 2002
Published:
Madrid, Spain : Diario El País
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
Cultura
Notes:
The author mentions a brief synopsis of some anecdotes of Gabriel García Márquez as a child, as told in Vivir para contarla. Also, the author talks about this set of memoirs, the years that have progressed as a brief chronology, and quotations from family members.
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
unknown
Published:
Barranquilla, Colombia : Universidad del Atlántico
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
1(4)
Notes:
Viewed on 24 January, 2008.||Only in the last decades of the past century have Europe and the United States begun to notice Latin American literature, by reading it through the works of Borges and García Márquez. In literature only with García Márquez, the US and Europe noticed that in Latin America there was something to read, even to imitate. Almost all of the tales in "Veinticinco cuentos Barranquilleros" unites the city of Barranquilla and its surroundings. They are not stories of authors from Barranquilla, but stories of authors who reside there, or at one point resided there. However García Márquez is not included among them. Maybe it is because he never wrote a story with Barranquilla as the background.
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
February, 2004
Published:
La Paz, Bolivia : El Diario
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
The promotion of the character who inspired El coronel no tiene quien le escriba of the 1982 Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez was not granted by a Colombian court, who denied a judicial action interposed for that purpose, the press in Bogotá announced. Nicolás Márquez Mejía, maternal grandfather of the writer, and who inspired this novel, waited for more than fifteen years for a letter that confirmed his military pension, but now he will continue without the official payment and without promotion.
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
June 7, 2000
Published:
Los Angeles, CA : La Opinión Digital
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
Viewed on 24 January, 2008.|Mexican ventriloquist, Johnny Welch, states that he was the author of the poem that has circulated as a farewell poem written by García Márquez, who was ill at the time. Such poem was denounced as apocryphal and García Márquez declared that the only thing that worries him is that his readership may think that he would write such a thing.
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
October, 2002
Published:
Madrid, Spain : El País
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
Viewed on 24 January, 2008.||"La vida no es la que uno vivió, sino la que recuerda y cómo la recuerda para contarla" (Life is not what one lived, but how one remembers, and how one tells the tale). This is how Gabriel García Márquez begins the first volume of his memoirs, Vivir para contarla, whose world premiere is the 9th of October in Barcelona, Bogotá, Buenos Aires, and Mexico City. Meanwhile, Alvaro Mutis, friend of the Colombian Nobel, and one of the few people that has read the manuscript, has no doubt in his mind that he has "read a classic."
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
September, 2002
Published:
La Paz, Bolivia : El Diario
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
Sección Cultural
Notes:
The American filmmaker, Francis Ford Coppola, readily admitted that he would like to make a film about the Liberator, Simón Bolívar. And for that, it could be based on a novel by the Colombian author, Gabriel García Márquez, particularly The General in his Labyrinth, with the help of the author himself.
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
January, 2004
Published:
Columbia, MO : Ciberayllu
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
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:
February, 2004
Published:
La Paz, Bolivia
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
Sección Cultural
Notes:
Four citizens of Colombia have asked by means of judicial action that the man who inspired Gabriel García Márquez's No One Writes to the Colonel, Nicolás Márquez Mejía, maternal grandfather of Gabriel García Márquez, be promoted from rank of colonel to general.
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
Related Item Details:
23-27
Notes:
"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."
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
August, 2003
Published:
México DF, México : El Universal
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
Reports that the translation in Portuguese of Vivir para contarla, the first volume of the memoirs of the Colombian Nobel laureate, Gabriel García Márquez, will arrive in Brazilian bookstores by early September, 2003.
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
July, 2003
Published:
México DF, México : La Jornada
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
Sección Cultura
Notes:
With 2,000 books, mostly novels, some donated by the Cultural Economic Fund, the first Latin American library in Canada opened in Quebec about a month ago. It was baptized with the name of the Colombian Nobel prize winner, Gabriel García Márquez.
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
July-September, 2002
Published:
Barranquilla, Colombia : La Casa de Asterion
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
3(10)
Notes:
Viewed 24 January, 2008.|In a conversation of paradoxical permanence with the last foreign member of the Barranquilla group, Jacques Gilard, the narrator Marvel Moreno affirms: In Barranquilla everything disappears. The humidity and the termites eat the books, objects, and furniture. The houses are abandoned or collapse by themselves. There is no sense of continuity of the type that emanates from European cities, no trace of the men who worked to create the world into which we were born.
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
September, 2002
Published:
Madrid, Spain : El País
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
A jury integrated by Eduardo Mendoza, Félix de Azúa, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Luis Goytisolo, Jorge Volpi, and Fernando Savater among other authors and experts, gave out the Second Bartolomé March Prize to the best book of literary criticism of the year, La verdad de las mentiras, by Mario Vargas Llosa. ||Another book by Vargas Llosa that is very important in literary criticism is Gabriel García Márquez: Historia de un deicidio (1971). When asked if he would allow for a reedition of this book, Vargas Llosa responded "Maybe in the future. Why not? The problem is that I need to revise and rewrite almost the whole thing, just like I did with La verdad de las mentiras. Since I wrote it, García Márquez has published other important works."
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
March, 2001
Published:
Madrid, Spain : El País
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
There are 24,650 Colombians without a permit for residence living in Spain; without papers, the number triplicates. The eminent demand to have a visa to enter Spain makes the wound deeper. Seven world renown Colombian authors are at the front of acting against the law that requires every Colombian to have a visa to enter Spain. García Márquez says that asking for a visa when entering Spain would be like asking for a visa to enter their own mother's house.
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
October, 2002
Published:
Madrid, Spain : El País
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
Viewed on 24 January, 2008.||Berenice Martínez, a seventy-five-year-old woman and ex girlfriend of the Colombian Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez, has told that when they met fifty-six years ago, they got along well. The two met in 1946 when the author was given a scholarship and studied in El Colegio Nacional de Zipaquirá. She also mentioned that she can't wait to read the first volume of García Márquez's memoirs.
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
October, 2002
Published:
La Paz, Bolivia : El Diario
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
Cultural
Notes:
Vivir para contarla, the first volume of Gabriel García Márquez's memoirs will simultaneously go on sale in Spain and Latin America, with an initial expectancy of one thousand copies. The official presentation of "Gabriel García Márquez's memoirs will take place in Barcelona, Bogotá, Buenos Aires, and Mexico City. In La Paz, the novel will be presented in an act that will take place in the auditorium of the Colombian Embassy.
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
May, 2004
Published:
London, UK : Guardian Newspapers Limited
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
Viewed on 24 January, 2008.||"Mexican opposition politicians are appealing to Latin America's best known writer, Gabriel García Márquez, to mediate in the diplomatic crisis that has taken their country's traditionally good relations with Cuba to the brink of collapse."
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
August, 1984
Published:
New York, NY : Kirkus Reviews
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
52(15) : 718
Notes:
Announcing the publication of the above work's translation by Rabassa and Bernstein, this article does a brief preview on its contents. Stating that most of the stories are assessed as brilliant, a few are found to be "strange and fragmentary."
Carol Channing, Faye, Jonathan Kellerman, and Scott Turow
Format:
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
March, 2003
Published:
Boston, MA : Writer
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
116(3) : 10-11
Notes:
This article presents updates on some writers, as of March 2003. Provides background on Vivir para contarla, an autobiography of Gabriel García Márquez; the number of years it took Carol Channing to write her autobiography, Just Lucky I Guess; Details of the married life of Jonathan and Faye Kellerman; and the focus of the book, Reversible Errors by Scott Turow.
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
January, 2003
Published:
México DF, México
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
Laporte mentions that the new book by the Chilean author, Alberto Fuguet, with the tentative title Las películas de mi vida, is judged by the critics as a "rotten product of globalization." For many Latin American authors who consider writing as a medium to speak about nationalism, postcolonialism, and history, the irreverence that Fuguet shows toward his land of origin with his tone and the scenes he uses, is a betrayal. Of him it is said that he sold out to American culture and that he is a rotten product of globalization.
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
December, 2003
Published:
Manchester, England : Guardian Newspapers Limited
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
Viewed on 24 January, 2008.||These are letters to the editor which mention the new idea to put a cinema in Cuba, in which Gabriel García Márquez is taking part.
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
November, 2003
Published:
Manchester, England : The Guardian Newspaper Limited
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
Viewed on 24 January, 2008.||"The idea for the film school occurred to García 17 years ago. As he saw it, what the continent desperately needed was a "factory of creative energy" where talented people from all over the world would feed off each other. Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez has a house in Havana, and when García turned up to suggest the idea, Castro happened to be there. That same evening, the plan was agreed. I wondered how a novelist and an ex-guerrilla leader came to get so excited about building a film school. "I think they are both frustrated film-makers," grins García."
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
May, 2003
Published:
Manchester, England : Guardian Newspapers Limited
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
Viewed on 24 January, 2008.||A poll for top 100 books made by the BBC attracted 140,000 votes. "The list was dominated by 71 books dramatised for film or television, and by 61 either written or set in Britain - though there were a few first published in foreign languages: Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment, two works by Gabriel García Márquez, and The Alchemist, by Paul Coelho, written in Portuguese." Love in the Time of Cholera and One Hundred Years of Solitude were the novels by García Márquez mentioned.
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
November, 2003
Published:
Manchester, England : Guardian Newspapers Limited
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
Viewed on 24 January, 2008.|"Juli Zeh's award-winning debut has earned her comparisons to everyone from Brett Easton Ellis to Michel Houellebecq in her native Germany and, in a single, breathless rave, Gabriel García Márquez, Raymond Carver, and Zadie Smith."
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
November, 2003
Published:
Manchester, England : Guardian Newspapers Limited
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
Viewed on 24 January, 2008.|"Two familiar figures in the novels of Colombian national treasure Gabriel García Márquez are the police chief and the mayor. And it has been a busy time for the real-life version of the characters in Colombia. Colombia's chief of police, General Teodoro Campo, has just resigned along with four other senior officers after revelations that they had been using an account meant for payments to informants to fund three years of lavish dinner parties, whiskey, and expensive chocolates. Echoes of García Márquez are everywhere in Cali. In one of his earlier books, An Evil Hour, someone keeps leaving notes bearing malicious gossip outside the doors of the inhabitants of a Colombian town. Though the book was published in 1968, the wicked habit its author described is still alive and well."
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
July, 2004
Published:
Miami, FL : La Razón, Inc
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
"Many foreigners only know a thing or two about Colombia: the country that produces cocaine and coffee. The country in which a civil strife exists. This is what is read and heard in the media day to day, but Colombia is a complex and amazing country that many times is perceived with stereotypes and prejudice." With this the author continues to describe the good things that are never really mentioned about Colombia, amongst which he mentions the literature and Gabriel García Márquez.
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
July-September, 2002
Published:
Barranquilla, Colombia : La casa de Asterión
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
3(10)
Notes:
Viewed on 24 January, 2008.||Interview with Gustavo Ibarra Merlano about García Márquez. Begins with a brief description of how Ibarra and García Márquez met. He provides a surplus of details about García Márquez and his education and what kind of person he was when they met. Then, the interviewer, asks Ibarra to compare La hojarasca to Antigone, who points out that they are similar because they both discuss power relations.
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
January, 2004
Published:
New York, NY : Seven Stories
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
Viewed on 24 January, 2008. |This is a review of Rosario Tijeras by Jorge Franco, where Gabriel García Márquez stated that Franco "is one of the Colombian authors who I would like to pass the torch to."
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:
May, 2003
Published:
London, UK : BBC News Corporation
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
Viewed on 24 January, 2008.||"More than 160 writers, artists and actors from across the Americas and Europe have signed a declaration in support of the Cuban Government. Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez and Hollywood actor Danny Glover were among the figures to sign a message condemning "harassment of Cuba," which was read out at May Day celebrations in Havana."
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
October, 2002
Published:
Bogotá, Colombia : El Tiempo
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
Gabriel García Márquez's memoirs have become the book of the year in several Spanish-speaking countries. There was not one book sold in such a short time in Colombia and Peru. Reimpressions have begun.
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
January, 2004
Published:
India : Bennett, Coleman & Co Ltd
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
"Here's a sampling of the most popular real life stories now on bookshelves: Kapil, Straight from the Heart; Sachin, The Story of the World's Greatest Batsman; Sonia, A Biography; Gabriel García Márquez, Living to Tell the Tale; Kamala Das, A Childhood in Malabar; Queen Noor, Leap of Faith; Madonna, An Intimate Biography; Dilip Kumar, A Definitive Biography; Gulzar, Because He is; MS Subbalakshmi, Kunjamma and Leila Seth: On Balance. Still on top of the favourite list are David Beckham, My Side; Britney Spears, Heart to Heart; Ball of Fire: The Tumultuous life and comic art of Lucille Ball; Geri Halliwell, If Only; and Madeline Albright, Madam Secretary."
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
November, 2002
Published:
Montevideo, Uruguay : El País
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
Viewed on 24 January, 2008.|In homage to Gabriel García Márquez and to commemorate the twenty years since his winning the Nobel Prize, the tenth of December, El general en su laberinto was read aloud from beginning to end.
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
February, 2004
Published:
London, UK : The Economist
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
370(362) : 78
Notes:
"A Spanish-Belgian academic duo, Ángel Esteban and Stéphanie Panichelli, have investigated the long-standing relationship between Gabriel García Márquez and Fidel. At the heart of the rambling, though well-documented book... is the issue of complex rapport between intellectuals and politician."
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
January, 2004
Published:
Salon.com
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
Viewed on January 24, 2008.||"The parade of literary fashion invariably passes, and Gabriel García Márquez's Macondo, the folksy, fictional village that embodied and, in part, defined the notion of magical realism, has been replaced by McOndo, a contemporary Latin American literary trend of gritty, urban realism, its name a takeoff on García Márquez's Macondo and a combination of the words "McDonald's," "Macintosh," and "condo.""
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
March-April, 2004
Published:
Miami, FL : Libre Online
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
The author turns on the television where Oscar Haza stand face to face with Wilfredo Cancio, editor of El Nuevo Heraldo, who criticizes Gabriel García Márquez for denying to interject for Raul Rivero.
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
May, 2004
Published:
Miami, FL : Libre Online
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
Viewed on May 18, 2004.||The Mexican officer of Foreign Affairs, Luis Ernesto Derbez, rejected the need for mediation through Gabriel García Márquez between his country and Cuba.
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
October, 2003
Published:
London, UK : The Guardian Co.
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
Viewed on 24 January, 2008.|One Hundred Years of Solitude was deemed the 76th spot on the "100 Greatest novels of all time: The List" according to Robert McCrum.
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
August, 2003
Published:
Caracas, Venezuela : El Nacional
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
Some of Gabriel García Márquez's things, such as his original birth certificate and the magazine Mito from May-June of 1958, in which his first piece El coronel no tiene quien le escriba was published, were auctioned off on the internet. There were eighteen total objects of the novelist that were auctioned off.
Luis Alberto Fonseca V. and Marco A. Valenciacallle
Format:
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
October, 2002
Published:
Bogotá, Colombia : El Tiempo, S.A.
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
Cartas al director
Notes:
Letters to the editor from readers discussing issues related to Gabriel García Márquez, such as the disrespect that has been shown to the Nobel Prize winner through bootleggings.
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 24 January, 2008.|"That Castro is a literary critic is established in the March-April issue of Foreign Policy magazine, which publishes a book review by Castro of Gabriel García Márquez's memoir Living to Tell the Tale. Márquez and Castro are, famously, pals- an association that's never spoken well of Márquez."
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
November, 2003
Published:
Long Island, NY : Newsday
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
G26
Notes:
"Recent Great Neck North High School graduate Romy Drucker is the first-place winner of the New York Council for the Humanities Young Scholars contest, "The Source of Ideas." She received a $5,000 scholarship. Her essay, "Fusing Myth and Magical Realism: The Voice of Toni Morrison," examined the novelist's uses of African and Western mythology and the magic realism of novelist Gabriel García Márquez."
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
March, 2004
Published:
Madison, WI : Madison Newspapers, Inc.
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
9A Editorial
Notes:
Review and commentary on Brazilian mystery writer Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza, where a comparison is drawn: "Some critics have claimed that if Gabriel García Márquez had written crime novels, they would read much like Garcia-Roza's novels, suffused with atmosphere and often struck with wonder at the power of human interaction to both heal and wound."
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
November, 2003
Published:
Buffalo, NY : The Buffalo News
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
H7 Book Reviews
Notes:
"Even so, we have not had Marquez's life like this before. It's the first of three planned volumes and while the narrative, putatively, ends with him about to marry his wife Mercedes four decades ago, it freely plucks, as needed, fruits from the whole blooming tree of his life. Though, it should surprise no one that it is beautifully - yes, perhaps even magically-- written from page to page, no one has the right to assume a translation as fine as Edith Grossman's turns out to be." -Editor's Choice
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
November, 2003
Published:
San Diego, CA : The San Diego Union-Tribune
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
Books1
Notes:
"Admirers of the Nobel laureate's masterful novel One Hundred Years of Solitude will recognize with wonder and delight the inspiration for some of what seemed to be soaring flights of fantasy."