The author chooses to analyze how after Gabriel García Márquez won the Nobel prize, his novel reaches a broad diffusion, almost losing its roots, thus becoming pertinent that these be traced, reconstructing, piece by piece, the passionate process with which a writer comes to be who he is, in a continuous counterpoint of exploration of the reality and assimilation of the literary forms that allow him to express himself.
Gil Flores compares and contrasts the movie "El coronel no tiene quien le escriba," directed by the Mexican director, Arturo Ripstein, and the book that inspired the movie, by Gabriel García Márquez.
The first volume of the memoirs of the Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez, Vivir para contarla, first appeared on December 10, 2002 in its German translation, Leben, um davon zu erzählen. It was sold out even before it was on sale because of the amount of reserves done.
Viewed on 24 January, 2008.|Gabriel García Márquez completely neglects the expositions of nominalism and in One Hundred Years of Solitude and proposes a system of characters founded on the conception of realism, this is, one in which the axiollogy appears natural and undissolubly linked to the name.
García Usta states that even though Cartagena was where one of the fundamental periods in the literary and journalistic formation of Gabriel García Márquez, and even though Cartagena is the second most important stage -- real, fictional, or multipurpose-- after Macondo, it has been subtly disdained by the most divulged interpretation of his literary genesis.
"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."
After admitting for a long time, and in some cases in a simple and compliant manner, the definition of Colombia as a "land of poets" and of Bogotá as "The Athens of South America," new writers and scholars put these concepts on trial and try to formulate a literary and different cultural conscience,while giving explanations to thought and the expressive forms of the past.
"He had always been the most disciplined of writers, sitting early in the morning before his trusty Macintosh, the magical, poetic words that have defined Latin America spilling from his head. That part never changed. But then Gabriel García Márquez, the 1982 Nobel laureate from Colombia and the foremost author in Latin America, learned in 1999 that he had lymphatic cancer."
Viewed on January 15, 2008. |The intertextual dispute has been widely studied by critics of the European and American schools, even though there are several divergent points when it comes to proportioning a concrete denomination, unique and valid in intertextuality.
It will not be of much surprise that Colombia, one of the most dangerous countries in the world, according to Gabriel García Márquez, finds itself in first place with a total of 972 kidnappings. Just as in the case of Gabriel García Márquez's News of a Kidnapping, the kidnappings are located in a gray area between politics and criminality, often being difficult to decide in which one it is classified, or if it's in both.
This essay discusses Gabriel García Márquez's first volume of his memoirs, Vivir para contarla, and goes into deeper analysis of what constitutes a memoir. The author also discusses Gabriel García Márquez's genius at keeping the reader hooked onto his book.
Arango asserts that by trying to take on the theme of women in García Márquez, what stands out is the abundant absence of critical studies specific to the theme. In general, the themes most studied are social-historical affairs related to Latin American and Colombian history, intertextual relationships of style and the maturity of the author in the building of a national and popular art, and of course biographical themes.
The author discusses the presence of indigenous peoples, the Wayúu tribe, in the house where the author of Cien años de soledad grew up. In 1996, his sister, Ligia García Márquez confirmed these statements during an interview with Silvia Galvis.
Dubatti states that Of Love and Other Demons skillfully combines a fitted narration and a simple prose that privileges direct communication. He also continues to mention elements of García Márquez's works.
In all of the works of the famous Colombian author, Gabriel García Márquez, the theme of dreams is of outstanding importance in participating in magical realism. This article analyzes the use of dreams in the stories in Doce cuentos peregrinos.
"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."
Munguía Zatarain's analysis is oriented towards the exploration of certain poetic features in some stories by Gabriel García Márquez; included in the collection are Los funerales de la Mamá Grande and La increíble y triste historia de la cándida Eréndira y de su abuela desalmada.
This article analyzes the continuous presence of Darwinian elements in Gabriel García Márquez's works. For example, how the writer reduces and at the same time expands his pertinence. Almarza reflects on Gabriel García Márquez's texts, characters who live in the sun, humidity, rain and sea. The rain, the heat, and the humidity come to be the omnipresent element in his texts. It is a genetic mark; for Dostoyevsky this mark was the weight of individual conscience and for Balzac it is money or the inheritance of the characters, but for Gabriel García Márquez the genetic mark is the climatic presence of the Caribbean in his narrative creatures.
Dabove says that García Márquez seems to be doing his own "critique of practical reasoning" with his "grouping" and his "evaluation." Nonetheless, to recognize La mala hora as a narrative project with capabilities of appeal, the author proposes to read it with Frederic Jameson's notion of "national allegory." With these purposes, Dabove continues his analysis.
"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."