In reviewing Jorge Franco's new book, Abani states that "Jorge Franco is a founding member of the self-anointed McOndo School of writers from South and Central America, who opt for harder, grittier urban reality than their magical realist forebears, such as Jorge Amado and Gabriel García Marquez. (The name McOndo itself is a play on Macondo, García Márquez's own Yoknapatawpha County.) But even thought the Characters in Franco's books fly in airplanes rather than through the air by magic, the social placements of these literary movements remain close."
San José, Costa Rica : Editorial de la Universidad de Costa Rica
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Library, University of Illinois
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This book talks about love and betrayal within Latin American literature and film. The book has a section entitled "García Márquez en el cine: la primera pasión." The book includes a list of GGM books that have been adapted into film (347), as well as copies of the film poster for "Crónica de una muerte anunciada" (1986).
Secondary source, Reviews of Books About Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
Nov 2002
Published:
Chile : Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Instituto de Letras
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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31 : p. 177-180
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Chaverri reviews María Lourdes Cortés' book Amor y tración: cine y literatura en América, in which Cortés analyzes issues related to the translation of literature to film, focusing in particular on the works of five Latin American writers who are considered part of the "Boom." She includes among them Gabriel García Márquez's Crónica de una muerte anunciada.
Analyzes, discusses, and compares contemporary educational and literary studies in Latin America. Mentions the post-modern movement and the "boom" writers.
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
November 27, 2005
Published:
Washington, DC : News World Communications
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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Books; On Books; B06
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In this critique and review of the book Carol Herman states, "Readers had every reason to hope that Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez's latest novel, "Memories of My Melancholy Whores," his first work of fiction in 10 years, would be something to behold. But there is a wrinkle, and it rests in the limitations of the book's own central and disturbing act of "beholding.""
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
May 15, 2004
Published:
London, UK : The Times
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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41 Features Theatre The Knowledge
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"Acclaimed Indian Theatre Collective Dehli present the magical-realist tragedy Erendira, adapted from the writing of Gabriel García Márquez, at the ICA."
"Interviews novelist Mario Vargas Llosa of Peru. Views on the goal of businessman Bill Gates to make books obsolete; Status of short stories in the 21st century; Effect of film on literature; Discussion on successful authors who have problems with technical writing." Discusses issues with Latin American writers.