Swanson reviews 'Temptation of the Word: The Novels of Mario Vargas LLosa' by Efrain Kristal, 'Carlos Fuentes, Mexico, and Modernity' by Maarten van Delden, 'Julio Cortazar: New Readings' edited by Carlos J. Alonso, and 'Manuel Puig Ante La Critica: Bibliografia Analitica Y Comentada' by Guadalupe Marti-Pena.
In his review, he mentions that García Márquez's "boom" novel Cien años de soledad is different from the works of other major boom writers such as Vargas Llosa, Fuentes, and Cortazar.
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
2001
Published:
New York, NY : American Civil Liberties Union
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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Viewed on 28 January, 2008.|One Hundred Years of Solitude has been banned and/or challenged in California, South Carolina, and Virginia, after it was challenged in 1998 in Montgomery County, Maryland school district.
Secondary source, Bibliographies on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2001
Published:
Barcelona, Spain : Editorial Casiopea
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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156-159
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Zuluaga Osorio states that because there is so much written about Gabriel García Márquez already, there is a need to present a reduced bibliography that points to opening new possibilities and not reduce perspectives. According to the author, the included bibliography, with a little over fifty titles, is excessive because the purpose of it is to orient and nothing more.
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
2001
Published:
Providence, RI : Brown University
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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35(1) : 139-141
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René Prieto reviews Body of Writing, reflecting on the desiring body as figured and inscribed in the works of some of Spanish America's most famous writers, including Julio Cortázar and Gabriel García Márquez. "Through a masterful deployment of psychoanalytic and feminist theory as well as a pertinent examination of authors' autobiography and psychology, he convincingly reveals what is at stake in some of the most enigmatic aspects of these authors' texts. His book is to be recommended with enthusiasm," states Prieto.
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2001
Published:
Medellín, Colombia : Fondo Editorial Universidad EAFIT
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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193-216, 231-240, 271-282
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Pineda Botero provides an interpretation of author and reader in One Hundred Years of Solitude, and analyzes the role of Melquíades as protagonist, writer and prophet; meanwhile, Aureliano represents the reader.
Discusses and analyzes Donoso Fuentes' "Lugar sin límites." Briefly mentions similarities between this work and the works of García Márquez, Vargas Llosa, and Carpentier.
Discusses and analyzes the work, style, and writing characteristics of Mario Vargas Llosa. Briefly compares his works on the representation of dictatorship with the works composed by Gabriel García Márquez.
Discusses the conflict in Latin America between the oral storytelling tradition and the written. Describes García Márquez's writing as "la escucha sutil de la palabra caribeña."
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
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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.
Purdue, IN : CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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Viewed on 24 January, 2008.|Vega-Gonzalez makes a comparison between García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude and Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon in terms of memory and family history.
East Lansing, MI : Michigan State University Press
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Library, University of Illinois
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1(3) : 87-116
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"After investigating the structure of the post-colonial dialectics promulgated in pan-American studies in the 1990's, I turn to a set of case studies of American authors, aiming to provide comparative accounts that are differentiating as well as synthetic. I consider how the subversive narrative work attributed to Gabriel García Márquez, a model for many pan-Americanist examinations of resistance discourse, can also be found in the work of archetypal "colonialist writer" Jorge Luis Borges, the villain of many post-colonial considerations of the hemisphere. Turning to North America, I compare two writers often placed alongside García Márquez, borderland authors Thomás Rivera and Rolando Hinojosa, investigating the subtle distinctions in cultural work that set them apart not only from García Márquez, but also from one another."
Presents a summary of the publications by Roberto Paoli, a linguistics professor at the Facoltá di Magistero at the Università degli Studi di Firenze. Includes his publication Invito alla lettura di Garcia Marquez.
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
2001
Published:
Colombia : Terra
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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Sección Opinión
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No longer available.||An opinion column about García Márquez and whether his book Vivir para contarla is an autobiography, his memoirs, or a new novel. The author claims that it is much more than that, that it is the historic retelling of an exceptional witness.
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
2001
Published:
Norman, OK : World Literature Today
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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75(2) : 396-397
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"This novel (by Manuel Vicent) tells the stories of a man and a woman, who are both mysteriously washed onto a Mediterranean shore dressed in wedding clothes. Vicent creates a unique and exuberant landscape of genuine love, in which even potentially grim details become part of a constant fiesta. His work, which recalls that of García Márquez, skillfully blends comedy, romance and tragedy"
Dueñas writes, "En el siglo XX, la fascinación con la figura de poder ha llevado a los escritores a incursionar en el mundo de lo político, incursión que ha estado teñida de tonos deslucidos: la aciaga derrota política de Mario Vargas Llosa a finales de la década de los 80 y principios de los 90; la constante y problemática presencia en público de García Márquez junto con Fidel Castro y, la cuestionable experiencia de Sergio Ramírez como representante del sandinismo en Nicaragua."
Discusses social, cultural, and political aspects of modern Colombia. Quotes and refers to Gabriel García Márquez in discussing the potential for the future of Colombia.
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
2001
Published:
Durham, NC : Duke University Press
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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2(4) : 116-127
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Viewed on 24 January, 2008.||This is an extensive conversation between Harry Morales and Gregory Rabassa where they discuss Rabassa's work as translator to many important Latin American authors such as Julio Cortázar and Gabriel García Márquez. ||Rabassa states, "Gabriel García Márquez, had complete faith in what I was doing and let me go my way. García Márquez ended up saying that he liked the English version of One Hundred Years of Solitude better than his Spanish original. He was probably just being gracious, but it was pleasing to hear in any case."
Secondary source, Reviews of Books About Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2001
Published:
Durham, NC : Duke University
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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This thesis attempts to explore the works of G. García Márquez, F. Cruz Kronfly, G. Espinosa y A. Mútis that propose a new image of Simón Bolívar, agent of the independence of the 19th century. Here, the purpose of thematic convergence and historical intent from the last two decades of the 20th century in the light of the complexity and tension presented in the Bolivar project of social unification of the American subcontinent during its national formation in the 19th century is investigated. It is proven that through these narrative works a divergence from the traditional historic discourse of the historic mother countries is manifested. In these, the dismount of the complex social and cultural condition, as well as the reconstruction of the present national panorama is proposed.
Odette Arzú quotes Gabriel García Márquez in her autobiography. She states "Les amenazo, como dice el fabuloso Pemio Nobel colombiano Gabriel García Márquez: 'Dios mío, si yo tuviera un trozo de vida... No dejaría pasar un sólo dia sin decirle a la gente que quiero, que la quiero. Convencería a cada mujer u hombre que son mis favoritos y viviría enamorado del amor.' Por ello, si obtengo esa porción deseada de vida saldrán varios libros mas."
México DF, México : Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Coordinación de Difusión Cultural, Dirección de Literatura
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Library, University of Illinois
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This work is a type of analysis that is traditionally known as a themeology, in other words, it talks about the interrelationships between the literary works of this kind. The author begins classifying the novels in the following categories: (a) "Enfoques," which is more or less the perspective through which the flow of information is regulated. (b) "Testigos," as the name says it. the witness of the novel is the same imaginary narrator, who at the same time, imposes his perspective. (c) "Intimidades," novels in which the author looks behind the characters and relevant historic situations, he expresses that the reader is who solicits that intimate look. (d) "Posmodernidad," where the new historic novel coincides with the postmodernism. (e) "Irreverencia," Robert Graves was the first that included this characteristic in the historic novels, by taking history precisely as a sketch made by historians and completed by the novelists. (f) "Depuración," by the interpretation of the author, is an inherent process to the historic novel, for which in Anglosaxon literature, there has been a distinction between romance and novel. (g) "Pronósticos," where it says that literary criticism should also be prospective, lastly (h) "Diferencias," where the author exposes his theoric differences with Seymour Menton.
The book begins with a short biography of Gabriel García Márquez's life and discusses his contributions to literature, including literary techniques such as magical realism. It also provides literary analysis for five short stories and "One Hundred Years of Solitude," "Chronicle of a Death Foretold," and "Love in the Time of Cholera."
Herausgegeben von Ottmar Ette and Martin Franzbach
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Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2001
Published:
Frankfurt, Germany : Vervuert
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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239, 284, 430, 600
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This work contains fundamental information for geography and town development, politics and society, economics and culture of today's Cuba. It treats numerous aspects apart from the current economic crisis and the relationship to Europe and the USA: tourism, housing and sexual politics, the myth of the revolution and the role of the political opposition, language, literature, film, music, painting and philosophy. The mixture of background information and Cuban history and culture, from the 20th century and articles to the direct present, makes this an equally useful manual today for specialists and aficionados alike.
Secondary source, Reviews of Books About Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2001
Published:
Norman, OK : The University of Oklahoma
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
"The figurative movement of women from the private space of the home to the public forum gradually materialized in Latin-American literature over the course of the twentieth century. This particular literary transition substantially mirrored the progress of the feminist sociopolitical movement, in which women retained their affiliation with the home as an integral component of their identity, even as they sought to escape its confines. My investigation treats the utilization of the domestic sphere as a microcosmic model of dominance Hasta no verte Jesús by Elena Poniatowska, La increíble y triste historia de la cándida Eréndira by Gabriel García Márquez, and Afrodita: cuentos, recetas y otros afrodisíacos by Isabel Allende."
Secondary source, Reviews of Books About Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2001
Published:
University Park, PA : The Pennsylvania State University
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
"This dissertation analyzes three detective novels of the post-boom in Latin American literature. The appropriation of the genre by authors included in this study- Gabriel García Márquez, Luisa Valenzuela, and Leonardo Padura Fuentes- is, I contend, a strategic appropriation of popular culture through which various social, political, and cultural master narratives existent in Latin America are examined. The introduction first discusses how the Boom novels' self-reflexiveness led to demands for a more explicitly politically committed literature, which the appropriation of the detective genre fulfilled while continuing the Boom's preoccupation with writing's traditional support of dominant power structures in Latin America... Chapter one reveals how Crónica de una muerte anunciada by Gabriel García Márquez undermines the concept of causality. Through this questioning, the novel reflects on the arbitrary processes of exclusion through which the writing of history is made possible, a literary preoccupation that gains its political edge through detective fiction and journalism's common root in the classical-realist narrative that Crónica de una muerte anunciada critiques."
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
2001
Published:
Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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"The Ends of Literature analyzes the part played by literature within contemporary Latin American thought and politics, above all, the politics of neoliberalism. The "why?" of contemporary Latin American literature is the book's over-arching concern. Its wide range includes close readings of the prose of Cortázar, Carpentier, Paz, Valenzuela, Piglia, and Las Casas, of the relationship of the "Boom" movement and its aftermath, of testimonial narrative, and of contemporary Chilean and Chicano film. The work also investigates in detail various theoretical projects as they intersect with and emerge from Latin American scholarship: cultural studies, deconstruction, psychoanalysis, and postcolonial studies." This book focuses on the era of the Boom, where García Márquez and Julio Cortázar are prominent.