"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
"For longtime readers of Gabriel García Márquez, Living to Tell the Tale will be as welcome as a cool breeze, and cause the same sort of full-body shiver. The first volume of a projected autobiographical trilogy from the Colombian Nobel laureate, Living to Tell the Tale is genuinely surprising in what it reveals of the writer's early life, his writing, and how the two interweave." -Wiersema
Viewed on 24 January, 2008.||"The Autumn of the Patriarch, the second of Gabriel García Márquez's three masterworks, to this day remains something of a middle child: taken for granted, overlooked, misunderstood. One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) is his best known novel, his most admired, most imitated and most honored. Love in the Time of Cholera (1985) is his most beloved, one of the great love stories of world literature. But The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975) is widely believed to be difficult, inaccessible and even unpleasant."
"So it's appropriate that this master synthesizer of high and popular culture, who wrote One Hundred Years of Solitude listening only to Debussy's preludes and the Beatles" "A Hard Day's Night," ends the first volume of his projected three-part memoir with a cliffhanger... The next installments may or may not appear-- García Márquez, 75, is recovering from cancer-- and though he's surely the world's most influential living writer, we may or may not stay tuned." -Gates
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.
"In these pages commentary will be made on the following: some millenarian visions of western culture; some characteristics of a potentially millenary society; the Colombia from the beginning of this century; and the Colombia of today. Some Colombian literature texts of the twentieth century will be commented on, and words spoken from some of our more renown cultural figures will be cited. All of this to obtain a possible explanation for the millenary impulse and its relationship with the present Colombia." -Palencia-Roth. Also published in El principio de la esperanza: ensayos-conferencias. Fundación para la Promoción de las Artes. Cali, Colombia: Carvajal Impresores, 1999, pp. 61-66.
Viewed on 24 January, 2008.||"With the upcoming memoirs of García Márquez, here we present some episodes of his life that have been ignored, starting with the reading of Cómo aprendió a escribir García Márquez, an investigation by author and journalist, Jorge García Usta."
"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
"John Sayles's film Lone Star provides insights relevant to the task of remapping "The South" within a broader hemispheric context. In his homage to the genealogical obsessions of such writers as Faulkner and García Márquez, Sayles explores the challenge posed by the determinism of a paternalistic past. The film stresses the paradoxical meaning of incest as reconciliation: history must be revisited precisely so that it can be rendered irrelevant to the task of re-imagining racial and regional identities in a plural America."