This book gathers articles, essays and notes about Colombian literature written between 1967 and 1997. Gabriel García Márquez takes the lead in what the author calls "the mid-century generation."
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 relies on the hypothesis that Aureliano Buendía's character is based on the life of General Ramón Demetrio Morán. Thus Henríquez affirms that One Hundred Years of Solitude has been written in code and the literary style of the Nobel's fantasy and imagination impeded to find the true background of the novel.
This book constitutes a profound analysis of the partial work of a number of selected texts, that point out the socio-historic character in nine hispanic novelists. This series of critical essays about nine representative authors by Manuel Antonio Arango L., is a clear effort to study and deepen the social context of Hispanic literature and integrate it to the history of Hispanic America.
The interpretative proposal of this work that can very well be seen as a case of cultural study, opens the door to a necessary dialogue about the people who animated the previous readings of the literary work of the Colombian author and the pertinence that these might still have. It also suggests that a footpath of reading is left to go over to better understand the unfolded world of García Márquez's narrations and their hybridization so appropriate for the American world.
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?
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.
Critical summary of the fourteen novelists that focus their work on violence. Grouping the novels by author, Arango systemizes the analysis of violence in each Colombian province through the writings of García Márquez, Álvaro Cepeda and Manuel Zapata, among others.
Salamanca, Spain : Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca
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Library, University of Illinois
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Previously published under Ceiba Editores in 1992. The considerable criticism and interpretative literature about Gabriel García Márquez has transformed him into a "stranger," and for the Colombian readership, his work has become something "unknown," states Carmenza Kline. Her goal is to give back the original spirit of the works, which was prevalent at the time of their writing. She provides excellent coverage of articles written about García Márquez and his works in the Colombian Press, something which is not always available in the USA.
"Since its publication in 1967, One Hundred Years of Solitude has sold well over 10 million copies and earned its author, Gabriel García Márquez, a host of awards including the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. The novel has brought about comparisons to Cervantes, Faulkner, Woolf, and even the bible. This book is part of Harold Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations." -Publisher
Criticism and interpretation of Gabriel García Márquez's life and works, beginning with his life and progressing through to One Hundred Years of Solitude and ending with Love in the Time of Cholera.
A collection of essays about García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude, including authors such as David T. Haberly, Keith Harrison, Roberto González Echeverría, John J. Deveny Jr. and Juan Manuel Marcos, Elizabeth A. Spiller, Paul M. Hedeen, Jonathan Baldo, Iddo Landau, Dean J. Irvine, Irvin D.S. Winsboro, Alexander Coleman, and Mary E. Davis.
Jesús Humberto Florencia, Luis María Quintana Tejera, and Olga Sigüenza Ponce
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Secondary source, Books on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2002
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México, DF., México : Plaza y Valdés
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Library, University of Illinois
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This book contains the following: "Prólogo" (pp. 1-9); "El mito del otoño del gran padre latinoamericano," by Jesús Humberto Florencia Zaldívar (pp. 17-40); "El olor de las almendras amargas. Ensayo de interpretación del universo narrativo de El amor en los tiempos del cólera," by Luis Quintana Tejera (pp. 41-70); "Amores contrariados, domésticos y fatales, amores realizados. El amor en los tiempos del cólera," by Luis Quintana Tejera (pp. 71-100); "Elementos estilísticos en Doce cuentos peregrinos," by Olga Sigüenza Ponce (pp. 101-166); and "Reflexiones finales" (p. 167).
San Juan, Puerto Rico : Fundación Puertorriqueña de las Humanidades
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Library, University of Illinois
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Originally presented as the author's Master's thesis. Could be used as a guide for reading Crónica de una muerte anunciada. Contains an extensive bibliography.
México, DF: México : Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Unidad Xochimilco
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Library, University of Illinois
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"In the current essay, Eliana Albala- with proof in her hands- objectively reveals the precise formula of a writer who practices witchcraft and alchemy, but that in his sintaxis, is the most obedient and respectful knower of the classics in his language." -Back cover of book
"Since the appearance of the first publication of One Hundred Years of Solitude (1970) in German, Gabriel García Márquez is considered one of the great authors of present literature in Germany. Gabriel García Márquez's success culminated with the Nobel Prize in 1982 and now begins again through his autobiography, Living to Tell the Tale. Harald Irnberger, who has known Gabriel García Márquez and his works for thirty years, looks beyond the magic realism and into the political and journalistic aspects of Gabriel García Márquez. This book submits numerous facts and interpretations." -www.amazon.de
"One of the most recurrent themes in Latin-American literature is that of dictatorship. And maybe the character that obsesses writers the most is the dictator. The return time and time again of literary texts about this subject appears to be no more than the persistent reflection in the history of Latin America of a phenomenon and a figure that, like the patriarch of García Márquez, resist death." -Jorge Scherman Filer.
"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
In this book Gene H. Bell-Villada has compiled a series of interviews by various authors. In his introduction he states, "This particular Conversations gathering comes with an unusual feature: it contains several interviews that were conducted by Latin Americans and/or Colombians, sometimes on Latin American soil, and always in Spanish, sans interpreters. In each of these instances the culture and nationality of the interviewer makes an enormous difference for the dynamics of the exchange. The encounters in Castilian offer a glimpse of the author at his most informal, forthright, and personable."
"El talento, la agudeza, y el humor de Gabriel García Márquez campean en este repertorio que contiene más de 350 acepciones recogidas de sus obras de ficción y de sus crónicas, e incluso de algunas de las pocas entrevistas que ha condedido en su vida."
"El propósito de hacer un glosario, segun la escritora Piedad Bonnett, es penetrar en el alma y el pensamiento del nobel colombiano [por una vía alterna, midiendo sus énfases y paseándonos por toda clase de tópicos, de lo ridículo a lo sublime, para gozar con su perspectiva del mundo]. Mundo garciamarquiano que en este libro comienza con la evocación del [acordeón] y termina con la palabra [zapato]."
"El meollo de la obra es que, cuando se haya leído una obra de García Márquez, tengamos, a nuestro alcance, todos o casi todos los detalles de la obra para poderlos usar más tarde, en el momento adecuado y con la garantía de la seriedad de nuestras citas o referencias. No es un libro para leerlo de un solo tirón. No. Esa no es la finalidad."
"Tampoco lo fue el anerior sobre la zoologia. Puede decirse, si con ello nos damos a entender mejor, que este libro es un libro 'referencial' o 'institucional' para una mejor memoria de las obras de GGM, y sea para propios o extraños de su obra."
"Mundos propios los de estos dos autores, pero unidos per secretos y profundos vasos comunicantes. En primer lugar la poesia misma, que distingue a la obra de Mutis, pero que permea la totalidad de la ficcion de García Márquez. Desde sus juveniles diálogos en una Bogotá compartida en la bohemia y el periodismo, hasta le reelaboración creativa de una colombia transmutada en su mutuo exilio mexicano, estos dos grandes escritores se has enriquecido en lecturas, viajes, reflexiones y figuras. Símbolo perfecto el [Brindis por el poesía] que García Márquez leyó en Estocolmo al recibir el Nobel, y al cual Mutis contribuyó de modo decisivo. O el discurso de García Márquez con motivo de los setenta años de Alvaro Mutis. Pero a la vez la diversidad de sus posturas ente la actualidad politica o personajes como Bolivar hace aun mas vivaz y polemico su dialogo sostenido sin interrupción por mas de medio siglo."
"Juan Gustavo Cobo Borda, quien ha acompañado desde los años sesenta con sus lecturas criticas la trayectoria de ambos autores, ha reunido, por fin, la totalidad de sus aproximaciones a Gabriel García Márquez y Alvaro Mutis."
"Análisis, entrevistas, cronologias y bibliographias puestas al dia nos permiten acceder a sus poemas y a sus novelas con algo mas que un brillante ejercicio de critica literaria."
"En Buenos Aires, capital de la consagración de 'Cien años de soledad,' Gabriel García Márquez participó de manera invisible en un homenaje que duró tres días sin olvidar que, pese a la ausencia corporal del autor, la literatura que éste escribió ofició la magia de considerarlo presente. Presentes estuvieron el hermano de Gabo, Jaime, el historiador Félix Luna, escritores, periodistas, editores y libreos. Un público atento y memorioso añadió la concurrencia de otras presencias invisibles: La fidelidad, la admiración, el afecto. Este Libro atestigua esa ceremonia inolvidable."
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."
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
Arango criticizes and analyzes eight authors (Hernán Cortéz, José Eustasio Rivera, Miguel Angel Asturias, Mariano Azuela, Agustín Yañéz, Juan Rulfo, Gabriel García Márquez, and Isabel Allende)on the impact of their writing, their styles, and their lives.
This volume is edited, and contains an introduction by, Harold Bloom. It also includes an interview with García Márquez, a biography, various critical essays of his works, bibliographic references, and an index.
Cáceres, Spain : Universidad de Extremadura, Servicio de Publicaciones
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Library, University of Illinois
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260 p.
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The book analyzes Gabriel García Márquez's journalistic history alongside his ability to compose great novels. Molina chooses different journalistic and literary texts from García Márquez, written at different times, to demonstrate how he combines his storytelling ability and his journalistic craft.
Originally presented as the author's doctoral thesis at Universität Leipzig in 2003, this book discusses Latin American historical fiction, focusing on the named authors.