The authors have traced magazines, archives, newspapers, and have interviewed people who met Gabriel García Márquez. Gabriel García Márquez, obsessed with power, leaders, and the highest diplomatic mediation, saw in the Cuban patriarch the model for which Latin America could some day construct a proper socialism. This book comes from a double fascination: Cuba and literature, where the lives of Fidel Castro and Gabriel García Márquez are told with their grandeur and misery.
"Building on his enormously successful series of Philosophers in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern now applies his witty and incisive prose to brief biographical studies of the world's great writers. He brings their lives and ideas to life in entertaining and accessible fashion. Far from being a novelty, each book is a highly refined appraisal of the writer and his work, authoritative and clearly presented." -I.R. Dee Publishing company
Esto es parte de una serie de la Colección Lea nombrado "Guías básicas de lectura."
"Con la publicación de 'Cien años de soledad,' Gabriel García Márquez se convirtió, en los años 70, en punta de lanza del boom latinoamericano. Empresa en la que lo acompañaron Mario Vargas Llosa, Julio Cortázar, Carlos Fuentes, Guillermo Cabrera Infante y José Donoso. En cambio, es de su exclusiva incumbencia la consolidación de un género etiquetado rápidamente por la crítica como 'Realismo mágico'. La historia de los Buendía y su mitológico pueblo Macondo borró definitivamente las fronteras entre lo verosimil y lo inaudito. Pero, muy a pesar de las ríos de tinta que se desplegaron en los años siguientes sobre el flamante género, García Márquez no se cansó de contar a quien quisiera escucharlo que tanto en su obra cumbre 'Cien años de soledad', como en cada uno de sus otras creaciones no había 'una linea que no esté basada en realidad'. Esta guia básica de lectura intenta aproximarnos a la vida y la obra de uno de los más grandes escritores contemporáneos."
This work presents: 1) Definitions and locations: magical realism between modern and postmodern fiction. 2) "From a far source within": magical realism as defocalized narrative defocalization. 3) Encoding the ineffable: a textual poetics for magical realism. 4) "Along the knife-edge of change": magical realism and the post-colonial dynamics of alterity. 5) "Women and women and women": a feminine element in magical realism?
"Drawing from a variety of contemporary literature--including such work as 'One Hundred Years of Solitude,' 'Beloved,' and 'Like Water for Chocolate'--Schroeder explores magical realism as one of many commondenominators in the literature of the Americas, Challenging the notion that magical realism should be defined merely in terms of geogaphy or Latin American history."
Chapters that discuss Gabriel García Márquez:
2. The Booming Voice of Magical Realism in Latin America
3. "Adancing in the Opposite Direction from Reality": Magical Realism, Alchemy, and One Hundred Years of Solitude