Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities & Sciences
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Library, University of Illinois
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In this interview with Silvia Lemus, Gabriel García Márquez discusses his life and work from a highly personal stand point. This is an episode of the television program "Tratos y retratos."
"This article is about the role of García Márquez and particularly macondismo as an ideology in establishing the canonic validity of vallenato as a folk genre from the Colombian Caribbean. García Márquez's chronicles of the early 1950's are seen as foundational texts on the aesthetics and value of vallenato; texts which influence subsequent writings on the topic. One of the main topics explored is how these texts acquire canonic validity through the success of One Hundred Years of Solitude. It is then that macondismo - the Latin Americanist celebration of magical realism - becomes an interpretive metaphor for Colombia, and vallenato music becomes the sonorous emblem of this metaphor. This occurs through García Márquez's writings, his multiple interventions in Colombian vallenato festivals, and the way vallenato is subsequently taken by a journalistic elite of the country as representing a macondian sonorous paradigm. The article explores how these different elements coalesce in constructing a genealogy of aurality for vallenato, setting the parameters of its interpretive significance through multiple processes of folklorisation of the genre."
"Twenty years after Gabriel García Márquez received the Nobel prize, Ronaldo Menéndez, literary critic and lecturer, offers a de-mythified version of his creative world."
"When reciting the many qualities of Gabriel García Márquez's writing, critics invariably include his humor. Unfortunately, when readers have to read works in translation, they often miss much of the richness of the original work, including the humor. However, Gregory Rabassa's English translation of García Márquez still provides many linguistic pleasures, not the least of which is the discovery of symbolic repetitions and of the multilayered references submerged within an apparently simple sentence-particularly those that begin the different chapters. Indeed, this joy of discovery often erupts in outright guffawing when we realize that the devilish author frequently turns the references ironically on our expectations and even, on occasion, deliberately misleads us."
Copenhagen, Denmark : Institut d'études romanes de l'Université de Copenhague
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Library, University of Illinois
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40(2) : 274-88
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"Este artículo presenta un análisis de 'Relato de un náufrago,' opúsculo híbrido de la primera etapa de la obra de Gabriel García Márquez, en el contexto genérico de la llamada narrativa de naufragios. Partiendo de una observación sobre el renovado interés por la literatura de naufragios, se revisan algunos ejemplos históricos de esta forma textual que hacen eco en la obra. A pesar de la presencia del naufragio como 'tema' en la literatura e historiografía hispanoamericanos, llama al atención la ausencia de un género específico para su representación narrativa, algo que sí se da en la tradición portuguesa. Es la tesis del presente trabajo que 'Relato de un náufrago' representa una reinvención de la narrativa de naufragios para las letras hispanoamericanas, poniéndola a la vez al tanto con el contexto político y literario del siglo XX."
"Presents a contextual analysis of the books 'A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings,' by Gabriel García Márquez and 'The Lesson,' by Toni Cade Bambara. Overview of the story of each book; Subjects discussed in the books; Characters in the books."
This critical essay examines the theme of love in Gabriel García Marquez's work, which the author claims is "depicted as a doom, a demonic possession, a disease that, once contracted, cannot easily be cured."
San Juan, Puero Rico : Universidad de Puerto Rico Faculdad de Humanidades
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Library, University of Illinois
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31(2) : 59
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"George McMurray, in his 1985 article, commented upon the links between the apocalyptic ending of 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' and the epiphany of Borges' 'El Aleph.' In this study I trace the origins of this vision in the work of the Colombian writer. As a young journalist, García Márquez wrote over 800 newspaper columns, several of which demonstrate his fascination for these pinnacle moments of vision or knowledge, a momentary glimpse of all time and space, an instant where the human imagination can capture the meaning of the universe. The novelist has repeatedly pointed to his early journalism as the laboratory for his mature fiction, the site that allowed him the opportunity for literary experimentation. It is my contention that the origins of the last Buendia's epiphany can be glimpsed in several columns which represent a leitmotif in García Márquez's early writing."
Salamanca, Spain : Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos
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Library, University of Illinois
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27(2) : 27-40
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"After locating US writer Jeffrey Eugenides against the background of recent minimalist fiction, this essay evaluates the influence of García Márquez's narratives 'Cien años de soledad' and 'Crónica de una muerte anunciada' on his first novel, 'The Virgin Suicides'. Centered on the novel's magical-realist features, the contrastive analysis contends that 'The Virgin Suicides' revives a distinctive modernist mythical impulse. Based on its literary borrowings, this impulse materializes in the endorsement of ancestral beliefs in a female principle and in the ethical demand to put an end to the gradual annihilation of the planet by post-industrial societies."
"In her article, 'Memory and the Quest for Family History in One Hundred Years of Solitude and Song of Solomon,' Susana Vega-González explores similarities between the novels of García Márquez and Morrison with a special focus on the use of memory and imagination. Based on theoretical models, Vega-González proposes that fictional representations are a means of rewriting history, a particular aspect of literary discourse. The texts under scrutiny constitute true quest stories of characters who search for their family history along their own identity amidst the dangers of capitalism and its excessive desire for progress and class ascent. The break with advocacy of hybridity are some of the features that link Morrison and García Márquez with magical realism, a literary mode that contributes to their rewriting of a history peopled with the ghosts of slavery, colonialism, and imperialism."
"Communities of people have different ways of explaining the world around them and events that occur to them, and these codes for interpreting reality can clash when brought into contact with each other. Latin American writers and scholars have often said that such a clash produces the atmosphere we have come to label magical realist in literature; construing the theory in quite territorial terms, they have claimed that the specific circumstances of Latin America have produced magical realism. In this essay, I explore the use if magical realism in a famous episode from García Márquez's 'Cien años de soledad'. The instance of the insomnia plague has fascinated readers and has attracted various interpretations from academics; these have usually been centered around cultural readings. I explore the passage from three distinct perspectives, cultural, historical and literary. García Márquez's 'Cien años de soledad' is a work rich in historical and literary sources, and in order to help determine the impact of political and cultural happenings upon his work, I have also referred extensively to García Márquez's recently published memoirs, which have enabled me to make reasoned judgments about the different spheres of influence upon García Márquez's work."
"The Western circus tradition provides a particularly relevant framework for representations of animals in magic realist fiction, since magic realism and the circus are both closely related to Bakhtin's idea of the carnivalesque. Conceptualized as 'circensian spaces', the circus' influence on magical realism manifests itself as what Foucault calls 'heterotopias', 'other spaces', which are inherently contradictory, polyphonic, and 'impossible to think'. As the circus traditionally represents, reinforces and at the same time subverts Western conceptualizations of animals, this discussion focuses on the relationship between Linnaean taxonomy and circensian spaces in Peter Carey's 'Illywhacker', Richard Flanagan's 'Gould's Book of Fish', Gabriel García Márquez's 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' and Isabel Allende's 'The House of the Spirits'. This article examines the significance of circensian animal spaces within the Australian and Latin American context, and discusses why 'circensian animals' may be particularly suitable agents in the subversion of Western paradigms."
"Este artículo presenta un análisis de 'Relato de un náufrago', opúsculo híbrido de la primera etapa de la obra de Gabriel García Márquez, en el contexto genérico de la llamada narrativa de naufragios. Partiendo de una observación sobre el renovado interés por la literatura de naufragios, se revisan algunos ejemplos históricos de esta forma textual que hacen eco en la obra. A pesar de la presencia del naufragio como tema en la literatura e historiografía hispanoamericanos, llama la atención la ausencia de un género específico para su representación narrativa, algo que sí se da en la tradición portuguesa. Es la tesis del presente trabajo que 'Relato de un naufrago' representa una reinvención de la narrativa de naufragios para las letras hispanoamericanas, poníendola a la vez al tanto con el contexto político y literario del siglo XX."
"Ahora que el realismo mágico es un capítulo de la historia de la literatura hispanoamericana, 'Cien años de soledad' revela su capacidad inagotada para tolerar y aun proponer nuevas significaciones, y entre ellas merece atención la que cabe relacionar con García Márquez y con su necesidad de dejar testimonio de su infacia, trascurrida en una casa grande y muy triste, con una hermana que comía tierra, una abuela que adivinaba el porvenir, un abuelo que evocaba recuerdos incesantes de una interminable guerra civil y numerosos parientes de nombres iguales que nunca alcanzaron a percibir claramente los límites que seraraban la demencia y la felicidad."
Santiago de Chile, Chile : Editorial Universidad Católica
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Library, University of Illinois
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30 : p66
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"El presente trabajo es parte del Seminario de Graduación del Depto. de Castellano en esta Universidad titulado 'Cien años de soledad, una novela mítica'. El seminario fue dirigido por la Prof. Adriana Valdés y en él participaron las siguientes alumnas: Sara Almarza, Inés Araya, Carmen Foxley, M. Elena Rodríguez, M. Isabel Spoerer, Marta Ulfe y Carmen Avaria."
Canada : Concordia University, Canadian Association for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
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Library, University of Illinois
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31(61) : pp. 236-238
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De Marinis states: "La extraordinaria y onerosa herencia legada por el boom de la literatura latinoamericana acercó como efecto inmediato para autores y críticos, una suerte de desconcierto y una búsqueda de caminos alternativos que permitieran superar tanto los fracasos de aquel movimiento como sus inadecuaciones respecto a los cambios contextuales que advinieron con el ocaso de la modernidad." He concludes "en el acto de la recepción, las clases marginales y periféricas (y sus artistas) procesan la información recibida, la transforman y la devuelven como acto de resistencia que las convierte en sujetos actives, productivos y, por ende, creativos, capaces de articular sus propios gustos y objetos estéticos."