Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
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unknown
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Austin, TX : The Austin American Statesman
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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K5
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"This is the voice that the author found in One Hundred Years of Solitude but the voice that narrates Living to Tell the Tale, the first projected three-volume memoir, is more journalistic, more reminiscent of his earlier works. And that, it turns out, is a stroke of genius."
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
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unknown
Published:
Havana, Cuba : Ediciones ICAICS Martin Luther King, Jr Memorial Center
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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Viewed on January 15, 2008.|Also published in The Nation: www.thenation.com.| "By artistic choice he has instead constructed a memoir as close in form to a novel as perhaps has even been written. It opens with the arrival of his mother in Barranquilla, to take her son- then 22- back with her to sell the family house in Aracataca, on the trip that made him the novelist he became, and ends with the ultimatum he wrote on a plane to Geneva, five years later, that made the elusive sweetheart of his adolescence his future wife."
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
unknown
Published:
La Habana, Cuba : Ediciones ICAICS Martin Luther King, Jr Memorial Center
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
Kennedy provides information from when he first wrote a review of One Hundred Years of Solitude and then progresses into more details of his journeys into the world of Gabriel García Márquez.
"Residents of the hometown of Nobel Prize-winning novelist Gabriel García Márquez failed to pass a referendum Sunday to change the town's name to Macondo, the fictitious tropical hamlet in his masterpiece 'One Hundred Years of Solitude.'"
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
unknown
Published:
Havana, Cuba : Ediciones ICAICS Martin Luther King, Jr Memorial Center
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
"Experience taught him too late that you can't change the system from the government, but rather from power," wrote Gabriel García Márquez about President Allende and his socialist government, ousted thirty years ago by a military coup."
"Y, de igual modo, el libro nos da a conocer el trato frecuente que mantuvieron los escritores y demás artistas del Grupo de Barranquilla con muchos prostíbulos que estaban en su apogeo en los años cuarenta, cincuenta y sesenta del siglo pasado--los del barrio Chino, el de la Negra Eufemia, el Colonial, el Hit de Oro-, lugares éstos donde no sólo llevaron a cabo buena parte de su bohemia y sus tertulias, sino que sirvieron de inspiración a sus creaciones artísticas (concertamente, a García Márquez, a Cepeda Samudio, a Figurita, a Nereo."
"Según Gabriel García Márquez, Bill Clinton es un gran amante de la literatura, que conoce bien el Quijote, puede recitar de memoria páginas enteras de William Faulkner y adora, sobre todo, las 'Meditaciones' de Marco Aurelio..."