Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
unknown
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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."
United States : Center for Black Studies; University of California
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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11(2) : pp. 76-93
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Maude M. Adjarian interviews Jan J. Dominique. In an answer to an interview question, Dominique states that García Márquez' early work is in her personal library, but not his later work.
"A Place Called Milagro de la Paz" by Manlio Argueta and translated by Michael B. Miller is reviewed." The review states "Although A Place Called Milagro de la Paz contains elements of magical realism-the combination of the supernatural and the meticulously realistic associated with the novelists of the Boom-it lacks the playful, outrageous, tongue-in-cheek quality of the prose of, say, Garcia Marquez."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
November 12, 2005
Published:
London, UK : Guardian Newspapers
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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Guardian Review Pages; 16
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Alberto Manguel discuses the topic of Gabriel García Márquez's Memories of My Melancholy Whores and states that "such stuff can, in the hands of great writers, make for splendid literature... Memories of My Melancholy Whores, however, never seems to extend beyond the mere smutty story."
This article mentions the appearance of Gabriel García Márquez's new novel Memories of My Melancholy Whores in Brazil's top five bestsellers for the week.
"He had always been the most disciplined of writers, sitting early in the morning before his trusty Macintosh, the magical, poetic words that have defined Latin America spilling from his head. That part never changed. But then Gabriel García Márquez, the 1982 Nobel laureate from Colombia and the foremost author in Latin America, learned in 1999 that he had lymphatic cancer."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
November 4, 2005
Published:
Seattle, WA : The Seattle Times Company
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
Books; J10
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In this article Michael Upchurch reviews Gabriel García Márquez's Memories of My Melancholy Whores and compares it to John Cheever's Oh What a Paradise it Seems, stating that Memories of My Melancholy Whores "too, is a lyrical-raunchy portrait of an old man taking what may be his last taste of the world."
After discussing his opinion on the rise of the left in Latin American politics Castaneda stated, "Now that the Cold War is over, it should never happen again. So instead of arguing over whether to welcome or bemoan the advent of the left in Latin America, it would be wiser to separate the sensible from the irresponsible and to support the former and contain the latter. If done right, this would go a long way toward helping the region finally find its bearings and, as Gabriel García Márquez might put it, end its hundreds of years of solitude."