Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
March 2005
Published:
Wellesley, MA : KLIATT
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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39(2) : 34
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In this review of García Márquez's "Living to Tell the Tale" Pucci states that "this book provides a unique opportunity to follow the development of one of the most important writers of the 20th century."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
January 1, 2003
Published:
Chicago, IL : American Library Association Pub. Board
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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99 : 809
Notes:
"This is the Spanish-language version of the great Colombian writer, which has been a best-seller around the world; the English translation is due to be published later in the year."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
November 15, 2005
Published:
New York, NY : VV Publishing Corporation
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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Books; 41
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In this review Stosuy reviews Memories of My Melancholy Whores along with John Barth's Where 3 Roads Meet: Novellas, stating, "John Barth and Gabriel García Márquez's newest don't rank with their best, though the septuagenarian grandmasters probably aren't sweating it. In Where 3 Roads Meet and Memories of My Melancholy Whores, it's their self-possession that's so intriguing."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
November 22, 2005
Published:
New York, NY : The New York Times Company
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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Section E; Column 1; The Arts/Cultural Dest;
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In reviewing the book, this article by Michiko Kakutani criticizes Memoirs of My Melancholy Whores, stating that "like the entries in his 1993 collection "Strange Pilgrims," this tale demonstrates that the shorter form of the story does not lend itself to Mr. García Márquez's talents: his penchant for huge, looping, elliptical narratives that move back and forth in time is cramped in this format, as is his desire to map the panoramic vistas of an individual's entire life. The fertile inventiveness that animated his masterpiece "One Hundred Years of Solitude" is decidedly muted in these pages, and the reverence for the mundane realities of ordinary life, showcased in more recent works , seems attenuated as well. As a result, "Memories of My Melancholy Whores" feels like brittle little fable composed on automatic pilot."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
2001
Published:
United States : Columbia University Hispanic Institute
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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54(2) : pp. 427-436
Notes:
Presents an analysis of fictionalized history in Gabriel García Márquez's "El general en su laberinto." Discusses the originality of Gabriel García Márquez's work and the blending of fiction and reality. Focuses on the general Simon Bolívar.
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
October 14, 2005
Published:
London, UK : Guardian Newspapers
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
36
Notes:
John Crace's review of Memories of My Melancholy Whores simply recounts the novel by presenting the most important quotes. It offers no critique or description.
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
November 2001
Published:
Chile : Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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29 : p. 295
Notes:
Presents a brief article about the parody of power in two Latin American works: "El recurso del metodo" by Alejo Carpentier and "El otono del patriarca" by Gabriel García Márquez.
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
November 18, 2004
Published:
Washington, DC : Ayuntamiento
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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27(47) : 12
Notes:
Memorias de mis putas tristes: "En su habitual sentido memorioso y sentencioso, GGM nos presenta un rosario de palabras que estaban echadas al olvido como son, por ejemplo, 'alvorazado' (los adolescentes de mi generación avorazados por la vida olvidar...'/Es decir, la ambición por la vida, por quererlo todo y ser voraces), 'camaján' (Hasta el ultimo camaján de la alcaldia...'/Una especia de holgazán que vive mantenido por los demás o alguien cuya corpulencia impone), 'venadas' (Pasaban pedaleando como venadas...'/Veloces, distraídas, asilvestradas y seductoras)."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
2005
Published:
Lincoln, NE : University of Nebraska Press
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
(79.1) : 189-193
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In his review Townley states that, "His long awaited memoir, Living to Tell the Tale, the first in a planned autobiographical trilogy, is a richly imagined volume, brimming with lush description and historical immediacy. And if the author has, over the course of his seventy-five magical years, succumbed to those ineluctable lapses in memory, we're certainly none the wiser. And it wouldn't matter anyway: as García Márquez writes in the book's epigraph, "Life is not what one lived, but what one remembers and how one remembers it in order to recount it."" Townley also states that, "unlike many contemporary autobiographies, this one does not indulge in postmodern fripperies. Instead, García Márquez offers a "traditional" memoir: one recounted through the first person in the past tense, in a voice both warm and conversational."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
October 31, 2005
Published:
New Delhi, India : Living Media India
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
Books; 77
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In this review of Gabriel García Márqez's Memories of My Melancholy Whores S. Parasannarajan states that "The lovers in "Memories of My Melancholy Whores" too are placed in the Marquezian enigma: she speaks only one sentence in the book; he had reinvented her in the delirium of desire...The novel itself is like a stray sentence of burning beauty from a master."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
November 20, 2005
Published:
Portland, OR : The Sunday Oregonian
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
Sunday Features; O20
Notes:
In her review Sarah Cypher states that "readers familiar with the eccentric ornamentation in García Márquez's other fiction will not find it here. But because the author is a master of his genre, magic and portent nevertheless glitter through the novel's plain weave, infusing images with the weight of symbols in an allegory. Which, thankfully, they are not. The novel is nimble and brief, and it uses the transformational power of love to rise above moralism."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
December 24, 2004
Published:
London, UK : Economist Newspaper Ltd
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
373(8404) : 85
Notes:
This article is a review of Gabriel García Márquez's 'Memories of My Melancholy Whores.' The article states "Absurd? Yes, and so brief that the reader feels short-changed. Even so, the book is beautifully executed, and it had a sort of moral. Great loves often force people to confront unpleasant truths about themselves, but since the great love in this case is not available for comment, the rebirth is entirely the old man's work. A re-examination is always possible, the author seems to say: all one needs is the trigger."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
October 22, 2005
Published:
London, UK : Times Newspapers Limited
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
Books; 16
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In reviewing Gabriel García Máquez's novel Memories of My Melancholy Whores, Ruth Scurr states that the book "depicts a respected journalist, breaking the rules of a lifetime to fall madly, anarchically, transgressively in love with a 14-year-old girl on the eve of his 90th birthday."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
October 23, 2005
Published:
London, UK : Times Newspapers Limited
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
Culture; 53
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In this review of Gabriel García Márquez's novel Memories of My Melancholy Whores, Andrew Holgate states that "those anxious about the 78-year-old Colombian Nobel Laureate's continued vigour as a fiction writer will not have their anxieties allayed by this new novel. In size, style and subject matter, this is a work suffused with a sense of exhaustion."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
November 9, 2005
Published:
Salon.com
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
In this article Allen Barra reviews Memories of My Melancholy Whores and also discusses the controversy around the book's plot, stating, "The relationship between the old man and the pubescent girl is giving some critics conniption fits. For instance, Adam Kirsch in the New York Sun: "That Mr. García Márquez expects the reader to salute an ancient man's victory over a child rather than see it as pathetic or monstrous, is the latest measure of his fiction's heroic contempt for reality."" He then goes on to state that "it seems a little late in the game to sic the p.c. police on the creator of Colonel Aureliano Buendia, who, in "One Hundred Years of Solitude," published in 1967, sired 17 sons by 17 different women. And why, one wonders, are so many critics upset? Because the old man pays for his time with the girl? Perhaps because they want the strange relationship to be consummated?"
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
October 30, 2005
Published:
Hartford, CT : The Hartford Courant
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
Arts; G3
Notes:
In discussing the unusual topic of the book Leblanc states that "some readers will be distressed by the sexual mores of this story, and they may not be able to see it primarily as a tale of love and aging. Worse, they may not see that García ultimately celebrates love, which can conquer solitude, instead of sex, which cannot."