In this review of Lucius Shepard's new book, Dorman T. Shindler states that Shepard comes "off like a cross between Gabriel García Márquez and Joseph Conrad, Shepard takes the ordinary and invests it with limitless supernatural potential, causing symbols, analogies and gut-wrenching emotion to rise up in the smoke of his storyteller's campfire and mingle in the ether for as long as he wants."
In her article, Foley announces that one of the many Los Angeles theater groups geared towards youth is performing A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings, which she mentions is adapted from a short story by Garbiel García Márquez.
Michael Dwyer briefly discusses the creation of a movie based on Gabriel García Márquez's Love in the Time of Cholera, which is to be directed by Mike Newell.
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In his discussion about plagiarism Gustavo Gonzalez cites Gabriel García Márquez in an example of how some students copy texts and use them in their reports as a form of plagiarism.
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.
"In Nobel Prize-winner Gabriel García Márquez's epic novel Love in the Time of Cholera, Florentino Ariza waits 51 years, nine months and four days to repeat to Fermina Daza his vow of "eternal fidelity and everlasting love." Worthy of a plot from the pages of this modern classic, Indian artist Maqbool Fida Husain flew to Melbourne last month for a tryst with Maria Zourkova, whom the painter describes as the everlasting love of his life, after a break of 45 years."
Viewed on 29 January, 2008. "John Updike, Salman Rushdie, Gabriel García Márquez, and Paul Theroux are among the heavyweights included in this year's longlist for Britain's most dreaded literary prize."
"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."
In this article, the author discuses the trial of Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma in South Africa, saying that "across the Atlantic Gabriel García Márquez would have it as Cronica de una muerte anunciada (The Chronicle of a Death Foretold). Or it could be told simply as an African tale, Things Fall Apart, as a brutally apt rendition of how swift the fall from grace can be."
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In this article the author states "I confess to liking Amanda Hopkinson's review (CT, December 3) of Gabriel Gracía Márquez's new book, Memories of My Melancholy Whores."
In discussing the Hay annual literary festival, the author states "Building on the success of its satellite festivals in Spain and Brazil, Hay - once described by Bill Clinton as "the Woodstock of the mind" - is to host an international book and arts festival in Cartagena de Indias next month, with the Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez as guest of honor."
Viewed on 29 January, 2008. In this article the author discusses the new wave of Mexican authors stating, "Absent is the exotic, folkloric and politically charged magical realism that writers born in the 1920s and 1930s, namely Colombia's Gabriel García Márquez, Mexico's Carlos Fuentes, and Peru's Mario Vargas Llosa, made popular during El Boom. This generation towered over Latin America's literary scene for years."
Viewed 29 January, 2008. This article discuses how pirated copies of García Márquez's new book, Memorias de mis putas tristes, fell in the hands of street vendors before it even came out in book stores.
Viewed 29 January, 2008. After street vendors began selling pirated copies of García Márquez's Memorias de mis putas tristes, García Márquez decided to change the last chapter and sell the book earlier in order to fool those attempting to sell the pirated copies.
Viewed on 29 January, 2008. Juan Carlos Pérez Salazar talks about the Boom in Latin American literature and its authors, including Gabriel García Márquez.
This article discusses García Márquez's book, Memorias de mis putas tristes, and its position as the top-selling book in Brazil, replacing Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code.
Sam Jones discuses García Márquez and states that "he may be a 78-year-old who picked up the Nobel prize for literature almost a quarter of a century ago, but, even so, few chroniclers would have foretold that Gabriel García Márquez would lay down his pen. Or has he?"
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The university Of Florida at Gainsville has chosen "A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings" by Gabriel García Márquez for the One City One Story program which promotes reading.
García Márquez's statement, "I feel as pessimistic as always, but as optimistic as each time," was included in the Latin American Weekly Report's weekly quotes section.
"Zakes Mda's previous novels have been compared, flatteringly, to the work of Gabriel García Márquez and to Chinua Achebe's classic "Things Fall Apart.""
"Now Macondo and the author's birthplace near Colombia's Caribbean coast may become forever joined. To reverse a half-century of economic decline, town leaders hope to cash in on their favorite son's international fame by changing the town's name to "Aracataca-Macondo." "We want to exploit García Márquez's legacy in the best sense of the word," said Mayor Pedro Sanchez, 37, who proposed a March referendum on whether to change the name."
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."
"The Nobel Prize-winner Gabriel García Márquez, pioneer of the school of magical realism and probably the best-known contemporary author in the Spanish-speaking world, has confessed to suffering from that most humble of literary problems: writers' block."
"Novelist Gabriel García Márquez wouldn't travel to Wales for the Hay literary festival, so the annual bookfest, dubbed "the Woodstock of the mind," has gone to him in his native Colombia."