Primary source, The Narrative Works of Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2004
Published:
México DF, México : Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Unidad Iztapalapa, División de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, Departamento de Filosofía, Area de Lit. Hispanoamericana
Princeton, NJ : Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
Originally published: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, c2003. |"In this long awaited first volume of a planned trilogy, the most acclaimed and revered living Nobel laureate begins to tell us the story of his life... It spans Gabriel García Márquez's life from his birth in 1927 through the start of his career as a writer to the moment in the 1950s when he proposed to the woman who would become his wife. It has the shape, the quality, and the vividness of a conversation with the reader a tale of family members, the great influence of his mother and maternal grandfather, his consuming career in journalism, and the friends and mentors who encouraged him, the myths and mysteries of his beloved Colombia, personal details, undisclosed until now that would appear later, transmuted and transposed, in his fiction, and above all, his fervent desire to become a writer. And, as in his fiction, the narrator here is an inspired observer of the physical world, able to make clear the emotions and passions that lie at the heart of a life in this instance, his own. This is a memoir that gives us the formation of Gabriel García Márquez as a writer and as a man." --Dust Jacket
Lemus Gabriel García Márquez, Silvia, Claudia Ibañez, dir., and prod
Format:
Primary source, Audio-visual Materials
Publication Date:
2004
Published:
Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
In this interview with Silvia Lemus, Gabriel García Márquez discusses his life and work from a highly personal plane. This is an episode of the television program "Tratos y retratos."
The authors have traced magazines, archives, newspapers, and have interviewed people who met Gabriel García Márquez. Gabriel García Márquez, obsessed with power, leaders, and the highest diplomatic mediation, saw in the Cuban patriarch the model for which Latin America could some day construct a proper socialism. This book comes from a double fascination: Cuba and literature, where the lives of Fidel Castro and Gabriel García Márquez are told with their grandeur and misery.
This work presents: 1) Definitions and locations: magical realism between modern and postmodern fiction. 2) "From a far source within": magical realism as defocalized narrative defocalization. 3) Encoding the ineffable: a textual poetics for magical realism. 4) "Along the knife-edge of change": magical realism and the post-colonial dynamics of alterity. 5) "Women and women and women": a feminine element in magical realism?
"Building on his enormously successful series of Philosophers in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern now applies his witty and incisive prose to brief biographical studies of the world's great writers. He brings their lives and ideas to life in entertaining and accessible fashion. Far from being a novelty, each book is a highly refined appraisal of the writer and his work, authoritative and clearly presented." -I.R. Dee Publishing company
Esto es parte de una serie de la Colección Lea nombrado "Guías básicas de lectura."
"Con la publicación de 'Cien años de soledad,' Gabriel García Márquez se convirtió, en los años 70, en punta de lanza del boom latinoamericano. Empresa en la que lo acompañaron Mario Vargas Llosa, Julio Cortázar, Carlos Fuentes, Guillermo Cabrera Infante y José Donoso. En cambio, es de su exclusiva incumbencia la consolidación de un género etiquetado rápidamente por la crítica como 'Realismo mágico'. La historia de los Buendía y su mitológico pueblo Macondo borró definitivamente las fronteras entre lo verosimil y lo inaudito. Pero, muy a pesar de las ríos de tinta que se desplegaron en los años siguientes sobre el flamante género, García Márquez no se cansó de contar a quien quisiera escucharlo que tanto en su obra cumbre 'Cien años de soledad', como en cada uno de sus otras creaciones no había 'una linea que no esté basada en realidad'. Esta guia básica de lectura intenta aproximarnos a la vida y la obra de uno de los más grandes escritores contemporáneos."
"Drawing from a variety of contemporary literature--including such work as 'One Hundred Years of Solitude,' 'Beloved,' and 'Like Water for Chocolate'--Schroeder explores magical realism as one of many commondenominators in the literature of the Americas, Challenging the notion that magical realism should be defined merely in terms of geogaphy or Latin American history."
Chapters that discuss Gabriel García Márquez:
2. The Booming Voice of Magical Realism in Latin America
3. "Adancing in the Opposite Direction from Reality": Magical Realism, Alchemy, and One Hundred Years of Solitude
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2004
Published:
Barcelona, Spain : Seix Barral
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
22-33
Notes:
Bolaño narrates how he read an interview with a prestigious and renown Latin American writer. In the interview the author is told to name three people he admires. The author responds: Nelson Mandela, Gabriel García Márquez and Mario Vargas Llosa. Bolaño continues to write about other Latin American authors.
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2004
Published:
Barcelona, Spain : Seix Barral
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
75-81
Notes:
Gamboa expresses his opinions on magic realism, how it has developed, and how it has been taken in by the youth. He notes the importance of Gabriel García Márquez in revolutionizing with magic realism as a literary form, as well as the significance of his most important followers, for example, Isabel Allende.