Viewed on 24 January, 2008.|"It is not exactly a case of life imitating art, but Colombia's most famous writer Gabriel García Márquez has been caught up in a real-life drama involving a crime he just spent three years writing about, and it could end in tragedy. The Nobel laureate has just produced a heart-wrenching book about a string of high-profile kidnappings that occurred during Colombia's war with ruthless Medellin drug lord Pablo Escobar in 1990." -Tom Brown
Viewed on 28 January, 2008.|Lawson reviews of Strange Pilgrims but comments on One Hundred Years of Solitude as well, providing insight and possible interpretations. Lawson rants and raves about how Gabriel García Márquez's works have changed his life, "After reading it I could not look at fiction, or life for that matter, with the same expectations, the same traditional preconceptions."
Primary source, The Narrative Works of Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
1995
Published:
Ciudad Seva
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
Viewed on 31 March, 2008. This story is part of the Taller de guión from a storytelling workshop led by García Márquez called Cómo se cuenta un cuento (Bogotá, Voluntad, 1995). The story is an adaptation of Jean Cocteau's El gesto de la muerte.
Santa Fe de Bogotá, D.C. : Presidencia de la república-- consejería para el desarrollo institucional. Colciencias.
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
2 : p 115SS
Notes:
García Márquez discusses the need for children to be encouraged to pursue their natural interests, especially when they have a natural aptitude for something. He writes, "Aspiro a que estas reflexiones sean un manual para que los niños se atrevan a defenderse de los adultos en el aprendizaje de las artes y las letras. No tienen una base científica sino emocional o sentimental, si se quiere, y se fundan en una premisa improbable: si a un niño se le pone frente a una serie de juguetes diversos, terminará por quedarse con uno que le guste más."
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
1995
Published:
Warwick, UK : University of Warwick
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
275p.
Notes:
"This thesis provides an analysis of the works of Gabriel García Márquez and Wilson Harris in the cross-cultural context of the Americas, emphasizing the importance of myth as well as history in their attempts to explore the hybridity of post-colonial identity....Harris and García Márquez present a vision of the world in which there is creative hope for the future."