Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
October 2, 2005
Published:
Boston, MA : Globe Newspaper Company
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
Books; D7
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Pearlman quotes a review by Stephen McCauley on One Hundred Years of Solitude which states that "after reading this novel there was no forgetting that modern literature is bigger than the English language. Marquez took the top of my head off with the incantational beauty of his imagination, the mythic explication of South American history, the living ghosts and the dead ghosts, the dizzying repetition of names from one generation to the next."
"Living to Tell the Tale-- a title that conjures memories of Moby Dick, as well as this Nobel laureate's own nonfiction book, The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor-- is the first volume of a planned autobiographical trilogy. But its most powerful sections read like one of his mesmerizing novels, transporting the reader to a Latin America haunted by the ghosts of history and shaped by the exigencies of its daunting geography, by its heat and jungles and febrile light. The book provides a memorable portrait of a young writer's apprenticeship as the one William Styron gave us in Sophie's Choice, even as it illuminates the alchemy Mr. García Márquez acquired from masters like Faulkner and Joyce and Borges and later used to transform family stories and firsthand experiences into fecund myths of his own."
Atlanta, Georgia : The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
4D
Notes:
Freeman's review on Living to Tell the Tale: "The verdict: A maestro at work. Full of rich researched anecdotes from the writer's childhood in a small Colombian village, the book has all the weight and exquisite storytelling prowess of Márquez's two fiction masterpieces, Love in the Time of Cholera and One Hundred Years of Solitude."
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
October 15, 2004
Published:
Washington, DC : United Press International
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
Viewed on 28 January, 2008.|"Pirated copies of the newest novel by famed Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez are being sold on the streets, El Tiempo newspaper reported Friday."
"Bosnian film director Emir Kusturica joined Gabriel García Márquez on Monday at the opening of a workshop the famed Colombian writer is giving at Cuba's International School of Cinema and Television."
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
November, 1999/January, 2000
Published:
Bogotá, Colombia : Arte en Colombia
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
(34) : 64-67
Notes:
In this interview artist and collector Fernando Botero discusses a range of topics, including his recent donations from his art collection to two museums in Colombia, how he started out as an artist, the parallel between his work and that of Gabriel García Márquez, and his art collecting.
"The film version of [Jorge] Franco's second novel, "Rosario tijeras," just opened in Colombia, where it has been doing boffo business. Franco is the biggest-selling author from Colombia since Nobel Prize winner Gabriel García Márquez."
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
April, 1992
Published:
New York, NY : Stanley Foundation
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
39(4) : 40
Notes:
"Notes that Nobel-prize winning author, Gabriel García Márquez, recently became co-owner of a new nightly television news show in his native Colombia. The function of the program to act as a school of journalism. Deals with the relationships between journalism and literature."
Contreras states that in Washington Middle School "there are long hallways decorated with student essays in Spanish and English about activist Cesar Chavez, Actress Rita Moreno, and Nobel Laureate Gabriel García Márquez."
Retrieved June 28, 2006, Features the career and effectiveness of John Winter, editor of Farm Mail, published by the Daily Mail newspaper. Considered "one of the leading agricultural journalists of the second half of the twentieth century."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 185 Document Number: D00591
Notes:
Via blog site. 9 pages., Author describes a proposed clearinghouse for data from state, county and municipal governments in North Carolina to serve nine rural newspapers.
"With great sadness we learn that the Colombian Nobel prize-winner Gabriel García Márquez and the Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, after a thrillingly long and bitter feud, are patching up their differences."
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
February, 2004
Published:
La Paz, Bolivia
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
Sección Cultural
Notes:
Four citizens of Colombia have asked by means of judicial action that the man who inspired Gabriel García Márquez's No One Writes to the Colonel, Nicolás Márquez Mejía, maternal grandfather of Gabriel García Márquez, be promoted from rank of colonel to general.
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
October 17, 2004
Published:
Bueno Aires, Argentina : Editorial La Pagina
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
Viewed 28 January, 2008.|Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez has been asked informally to help mediate with Fidel Castro in the case of a Cuban doctor banned for leaving the island for Argentina, where her son and grandchildren reside, according to one Buenos Aires daily.
In critiquing writer Mark Kurlansky for insulting president Bush, the Investor's Business Daily stated that, " Novelist Gabriel García Márquez, whose "One Hundred Years of Solitude" was said to be Clinton's all-time favorite, not only refrained from insulting the president, but he rose in his defense. Speaking of Clinton's sexual escapade, Márquez said the president "only wanted to do what every man has done and hidden from his wife since the beginning of time." "
Jeffrey Lamb analyzes and reviews Humberto Crosthwaite's novel, El Gran Pretender. In the critical essay he discusses how Crosthwaite is "the product of a university education that presented canonical writers from both Mexico and Latin America, including those of the "Boom": Julio Cortazar, Mario Vargas Llosa, Carlos Fuentes, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez."
This article reviews J.H. Blair's book "Caliente!: The Best Erotic Writing in Latin American Fiction," which the author states "includes a diverse mix of well-known and underexposed Latin American authors, among them Gabriel García Márquez..."
Hart, Joy L. (author), Esrock, Stuart L. (author), and Leichty, Greg B. (author)
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
2006
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08347
Notes:
Pages 305-315 in Steve May, Case studies in organizational communication: ethical perspectives and practices. Sage Publications, Inc., Thousand Oaks, California. 402 pages.
Fuentes describes the enigmatic nature of Mexico, and Bach quotes him as saying, "You know, when Garcia Marquez feels he doesn't understand Mexico, what's going on-it's such a complicated country-he goes to the anthropological museum and stands in front of Coatlicue for half an hour and says 'Now I understand!' In Mexico there is this enigma, which is a great spurt to the writer and artist, of course."
Analyzes two works on Alejo Carpentier: "Carpentier's Baroque Fiction: Returning Medusa's Gaze", by Steve Wakefield and "El festín de Alejo Carpentier: una lectura culinario-intertextual," by Rita De Maeseneer. Mentions that Carpentier was a "precursor to Latin America's so-called ''Boom'' era, which culminated in the work of novelists such as Julio Cortázar, Gabriel García Márquez, Carlos Fuentes, and Mario Vargas Llosa."
Presents a letter from Orlando Fais Borda to Pedro Santana. Discusses the 50th anniversary of Revista Foro among other topics. Briefly states his intent to describe the local historic morphology.
Luis Alberto Fonseca V. and Marco A. Valenciacallle
Format:
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
October, 2002
Published:
Bogotá, Colombia : El Tiempo, S.A.
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
Cartas al director
Notes:
Letters to the editor from readers discussing issues related to Gabriel García Márquez, such as the disrespect that has been shown to the Nobel Prize winner through bootleggings.
Eliseo Alberto Diego Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Gabriel García Márquez, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Mario García Joya, au., dir., screenplay, music, and photography
Format:
Primary source, Audio-visual Materials
Publication Date:
2003, 1988
Published:
Cuba : Cine Cubano
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
Matanzas, Cuba, 1913. Two shy young lovers enlist the help of a poet to write passionate letters to each other. When the poet becomes enamored of the young woman, the three are faced with a perplexing dilemma.
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
October 23, 2004
Published:
New York, NY : Associated Press
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
International News
Notes:
"President Fidel Castro, recovering from a fall that broke his kneecap and arm, has received get-well wishes from the leaders around the globe, state media reported Saturday. Presidents Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva of Brazil, Nestor Kirchner of Argentina and Sam Nujoma sent their wishes, along with Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez and Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi. Presidents Vicente Fox of Mexico, Ricardo Lagos of Chile and Martin Torrijos of Panama also sent their regards, said the Communist Party daily."
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
January, 2004
Published:
India : Bennett, Coleman & Co Ltd
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
"Here's a sampling of the most popular real life stories now on bookshelves: Kapil, Straight from the Heart; Sachin, The Story of the World's Greatest Batsman; Sonia, A Biography; Gabriel García Márquez, Living to Tell the Tale; Kamala Das, A Childhood in Malabar; Queen Noor, Leap of Faith; Madonna, An Intimate Biography; Dilip Kumar, A Definitive Biography; Gulzar, Because He is; MS Subbalakshmi, Kunjamma and Leila Seth: On Balance. Still on top of the favourite list are David Beckham, My Side; Britney Spears, Heart to Heart; Ball of Fire: The Tumultuous life and comic art of Lucille Ball; Geri Halliwell, If Only; and Madeline Albright, Madam Secretary."
This article reviews Marie Arana's book "Cellophane." The author, Jennifer Stidham, states, "Acclaimed Peruvian-American author Arana (American Chica) treads the ground between the stark realities of mid-century Peruvian politics and changing the social mores and the sensitive and honest portrayal of a family in chaos as adroitly as the giants of the genre, including Gabriel García Márquez and Isabel Allende."
In talking about Malala's essay, Write the beloved Country, Roberts states that "in praising Zakes Mda as "reminiscent of Gabriel García Márquez", Mr. Malala seems unaware that Mda rejects that comparison as condescending."
Viewed on 29 January, 2008. "El gobierno de Irán decidió prohibir la más reciente novela del escritor colombiano Gabriel García Márquez, 'Memoria de mis putas tristes,' al argumentar que la autorización inicial para distribuirla se debió a un 'error burocrático,' informó ayer la agencia informativa local Fars."
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
April, 2003
Published:
Slate, MSN
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
Viewed on 24 January, 2008. ||Waldman states that novels are not selling as one would expect them to, mainly due to the lack of interest from the public in modern novels. Waldman reiterates that people would rather read the classics than read a modern novel; therefore, publishing companies will be spending more money on promoting classics.
