Viewed on July 8, 2004.||In homage to George Simenon, master of the police thriller, this article provides commentary on this book that brings together two tales, one of Gabriel García Márquez on a story of Simenon, and the other a tale written by Simenon.
"Living to Tell the Tale, an astonishing first volume of the memoirs of Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez, closes with the author at age 28 leaving Colombia for Europe, a two-week assignment he stretches to three years. He is more than a decade from the string of masterpieces that will begin with One Hundred Years of Solitude." -Mellen
"Explores the representation of power and in showing how the body can serve as a means to achieve everyone's desires, goals, and freedom in the novel The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Eréndira and of Her Heartless Grandmother by Gabriel García MárquezS and the film "Eréndira," scripted by García Márquez. Master/slave theory in both texts. Representation of freedom for Eréndira. Battle for power and hegemony in the film and novel."
"At the end of 2000, I spent three months traveling around Latin America-- Barranquilla, Cartagena, Bogotá, Mexico City-- to interview friends and relatives for an oral biography of Gabriel García Márquez. Autobiography is central to García Márquez's fiction, and I was curious how the people (many of whom make appearances in his work) who knew Gabriel García Márquez as a young man would remember him." -Silvana Paternostro
This book discusses the history and criticism in Latin American fiction in the 20th century and mentions Gabriel García Márquez on pages 11, 24-37, and 42-45.