Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
October 30, 2005
Published:
Cleveland, OH : Plain Dealer Publishing
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
Books; H5
Notes:
In this review of Memories of My Melancholy Whores, Felipe Nieves discusses the novel and also critiques Edith Grossman's translation of the text from Spanish to English.
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
June, 2003
Published:
Cali, Colombia : Universidad del Valle
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
(19) : 127-142
Notes:
"The Violence (1946-1965) was the first arena of generalized violence in Colombia this century. This phenomenon left the terrifying memory of its more than two hundred thousand deaths, together with a country ruined politically and morally. The writers (novels and consecrates) left evidence of this in an enormous body of work that has been, in large part, negatively sanctioned and, in general, poorly researched. To construct a dispassionate critical judgment and a rigorous study of this literature it is necessary, in principal, to outline some criteria that will permit a clear delineation of the corpus of novels that integrate it."||To sustain his argument, Osorio brings up García Márquez's statement, "La literatura colombiana, un fraude a la nación" where he states that since colonial times, the Colombian literature has had at most three or four literary writers and has been encumbered with false prestige. Furthermore, he states that during the 50s no literary tradition or national literature existed; however, since the 50s there has been a surge in literary novels about the violence, among them, García Márquez's, Mejía Vallejo's, and Álvarez Gardeazábal's.
This work discusses the significance of two representations of Colombia's political culture: elections and war. Briefly mentions a statement on Gabriel García Márquez's social views.
Rafael Cartay writes about the contribution of immigrants in shaping the Venezuelan diet in the twentieth century. In the later part of the study, the author writes about refrigeration in the early nineteenth century, where he comments on García Márquez's "Cien Años de Soledad."
Diana Palaversich analyzes the work of Mario Bellatin. In the article, she compares the mystical world of Bellatin to the works of other writers, including Gabriel García Márquez.