"The writer contends that Colombian author and Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez presents a dismal social portrait of Latin America in several of his books, including the first volume of his memoirs, Living to Tell the Tale."
Washington, DC : Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
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Library, University of Illinois
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21(3) : 130
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"Focuses on the views of novelist Gabriel García Márquez as written in Press/Politics journal about the pernicious effect of tape recorders on journalism. Advantage of tape recorder on radio interviews, disadvantages of tape recorders in journalism."
"The majority of Gabriel García Márquez's novels and short stories are characterized by the unique coexistence of real and magical features. The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World is no exception. The author reveals through the main character's unexpected appearance on the scene, his giant-like traits, so reminiscent of Johnathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, and his deistically heroic behavior, the magical elements of this short story that remind us of the tales of our childhood. And yet, the very setting in place, the description of the typically Latin American villager's behaviour and the distressing sorrow caused by the protagonist's death, make this masterfully-written literary work as realistic as any other short story in the realistic movement. García Márquez's literary achievement lies precisely in his ability to fuse such divergent characteristics inherent in the magical and realistic movements."
Lewis suggests several books that have been especially selected for their currency of pertinence to events or people in the news. These include Teaching as a Subversive Activity by Postman and Charles Weingartner, Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich, and One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez.
This is the real story that originated as a movie script, then as a movie, then became a journalistic article, and finally a literary story. This article tells the story of how Un cuento peregrino by García Márquez came to be what we know today.
"Penetrating analyses of novels and short stories by the most eminent writers of today: Sábato, Cortázar, Onetti, Roa Bastos, Arguedas, Vargas Llosa, García Márquez, Carpentier, Yáñez, Rulfo, and others."
"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.||"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."