"Reviews the book 'La guaracha del Macho Camacho,' by Luis Rafael Sánchez." Mentions that "Sanchez's treatment of subject, language, and genre places him in the company of such distinguished Latin American writers as Cabrera Infante, Vargas Llosa, García Márquez, Fuentes, Puig, Cortazar, and several others."
"Features Antonio Paredes-Candia, a folklorist from Bolivia. How his interest in folklore started; Selection of his works; Goal of the author." States his admired writers: Gabriel García Márquez, Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriela Mistral, and Juan Rulfo.
Chile : Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Instituto de Letras
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Library, University of Illinois
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29 : p. 277-280
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Reviews "Press articles" by the Diego Barros Center of Studies of DIBAM. The publication compiles all of Chilean novelist Cristian Huneeus' journalistic work. Comments on García Márquez and his 1982 Nobel Prize.
Chile : Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Instituto de Letras
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Library, University of Illinois
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29 : pp. 295-296
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Reviews and analyzes feminism in four Latin American novels: "El lugar sin limites" by Jose Donoso, "La increible y triste historia de candida Erendida y su abuela desalmada" by Gabriel García Márquez, "Aur" by Carlos Fuentes, and "Los vigilantes" by Diamela Eltit.
Presents information on the 2001 Latin American Film Festival which will be held in Washington, D.C. from September 13 to 23, 2001. Organizers of the festival; Countries represented in the festival; Motion pictures that will be featured. The festival will open with the Mexican production of No One Writes to the Colonel, based on a novella by Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez and directed by Mexico's Arturo Ripstein.
Presents a 'Top 40' list of publications in celebration of 75 years of publishing excellence. "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by García Márquez is one novel on the list.
Analyzes " El mar de las lentejas" by Antonio Benítez Rojo. Briefly mentions similarities between this work and "Crónica de una muerte anunciada" by Gabriel García Márquez.
Connects the culture and issues of the city of San Juan with the 'new' urban literature in Latin American writing. Briefly mentions the generation of García Márquez, Carlos Fuentes and Vargas Llosa in reference to the feeling of "Latinoamericanism"
Brief article mentioning the authors and poems presented in the current issue as part of the "Dossier yucateco". Briefly mentions an author's allusion the the works of García Márquez.
"Julio Ramón Ribeyro (1929-94) remains relatively unknown outside his native Peru; his later work has received only the scantiest critical attention. This paper examines Los otros, Mariposas y Cornetas, and Tía Clementina, three late Ribeyro stories set in the Miraflores neighborhood of Santa Cruz. Examined in these stories are the simplicity, humor, and tenderness that give Ribeyro's work its extraordinary power."
Reviews "Characteristics and Functions of Direct Quotes in Hispanic Fiction. A Linguistic Analysis", by Isolde Jordan. "Isolde Jordan's book is an attempt to apply pragmalinguistic methods of analysis to Hispanic short fiction, more specifically to Gabriel García Márquez's El coronel no tiene quien le escriba and to Carmen Laforet's Nada, mainly concentrating on the use of direct speech in these works."
Inteviews Ramón Illán Bacca. Responds to many interview questions and states that Márvel Moreno is the best Colombian storyteller of the twentieth century, over García Márquez.
Spain : Centro de Estudios y Cooperación para América Latina
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Library, University of Illinois
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6(14) : pp. 23-47
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Discusses the tremendous influence that the "Boom" writers have had on Latin American literature. García Márquez's contribution to magical realism is mentioned a few times.
United States : Latin American Literary Review Press
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Library, University of Illinois
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31(61) : p. 58
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"Solares-Larrave discusses the texts, history, and narrative discourse in light of two 19th-century Spanish American historical novels-' La hija del judio' by Justo Sierra O'Reilly and ' La novia del hereje' by Vicente Fidel Lopez. Both novels display a narrative discourse that rewrites history from within, proposing variants or amending historical facts in and through the story."
This article intends to demonstrate a reflection and proposition of what Carlos Fuentes takes from topics of "mito," utopia, and the epic novel in Hispanic-America in his essay "Valiente mundo nuevo." Briefly mentions the importance of García Márquez in representing "mito" in Latin-American writing.
Analyzes Ernesto Sábato and his works. Mentions historical facts surrounding the Cuban revolutions and the influences of authors including Fuentes, Cortázar and García Márquez.
United States : Asociacion de Literatura Femenina Hispanica
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Library, University of Illinois
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28(2) : pp. 137-157
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Analyzes and reviews "El aire tan dulce", by Elvira Orphée. Mentions that her work is similar to the Magical Realism of Gabriel García Márquez, but is in fact existentialist.
United States : Latin American Literary Review Press
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Library, University of Illinois
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30(60) : pp. 1-28
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"Isabel Allende's life and fiction form an inextricable bond, woven together with textured strands of love, violence, politics, adventure and death. Rarely has a contemporary author been so personal and revealing about her life and her creative process. A passionate ''story-giver,'' Allende is also a consummate ''story junkie'' who continually views life as full of stories waiting to be deciphered and told." The article contrasts the work of Allende and García Márquez.
United States : Vanderbilt University, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
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Library, University of Illinois
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21(1/2) : pp. 190-199
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Arnoldo Palacio's ''Las estrellas son negras'' is discussed. Palacios' Afro-Colombian novel ends on a passionate and lyrical note of affirmation, an affirmation whose intended thoroughness is reinforced by a narrative strategy in which man and water are united in sensuous, baptismal, therefore transfigurative, images. Briefly compares images and literary devices to the works of Gabriel García Márquez.
Spain : Centro de Estudios y Cooperación para América Latina
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Library, University of Illinois
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6(15) : pp. 246-250
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Analyzes and reviews multiple works by Juan José Saer. The article focuses on works published by the Spanish editorial Muchnik Editores. Three works are focused on: La pesquisa, from 1994, Las nubes, from 1997, and Lugar, from 2000. Briefly mentions how some aspects of Saer's work is similar to Faulkner, Juan Carlos Onetti, or García Márquez.
Discusses the lack of good literature in modern times. Proposes a plan to 'save' the inevitable death of literature and the humanities. States that writers like Gabriel García Márquez and José Donoso produced great novels at first, but then lowered their standards for the public 'market'.
Analyzes and reviews "Heredarás un mar que no conoces y lenguas que no sabes," by Alfonso Barrera Valverde. Mentions the "Boom" writers and Magical Realism.
Geirola interviews writer Diego Paszkowski. When asked which writers have influenced him, Paszkowski responds that, when he was younger, it was García Márquez, but his influences changed as he got older.
Brief mention of García Márquez. Pearson states, "During the last twenty years VLL has even criticized communist writers of the ilk of Carpentier, Neruda, and García Márquez, as he has aligned himself more with Bataille, Popper and others."
González reviews Alejandro Hernández Diaz's book The Cuban Mile, which he says "is in many aspects similar to Relata de un naufrage by Gabriel García Márquez; perhaps it was even inspired by it."
Spain : Centro de Estudios y Cooperación para América Latina
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Library, University of Illinois
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8(18) : pp. 191-193
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Reviews and analyzes "Poesía reunida", by Fernando Charry Lara. Mentions that he is a companion of a generation including Héctor Rojas Herazo, Álvaro Mutis, Fernando Botero and Gabriel García Márquez.
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.
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."
United States : Asociacion de Literatura Femenina Hispanica
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Library, University of Illinois
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29(2) : pp. 9-32
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Analyzes and criticizes "Los caminos de Eros son imprevisibles," by Isable Allende. Compares her work to the work of other Latin American writers, including García Márquez.
United States : Asociacion de Literatura Femenina Hispanica
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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29(2) : pp. 9-32
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Analyzes and criticizes "Los caminos de Eros son imprevisibles," by Isable Allende. Compares her work to the work of other Latin American writers, including García Márquez.
Spain : Centro de Estudios y Cooperación para América Latina
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Library, University of Illinois
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5(12) : pp. 146-207
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Presents Julio Ramón Ribeyro's personal diary. Mentions that he has not, nor will write a great narrative work like other great writers of his time: "Vargas Llosa La casa verde, Roa Bastos Yo el supremo, Carlos Fuentes Terra nostra, Goytisolo Recuento, García Márquez Cien años de soledad, Donoso El obsceno pajaro de la noche, etc."
Costa Rica : Instituto de Estudios Latinoamericanos (IDELA)
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Library, University of Illinois
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12 : pp. 3-6
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Carlos Fuentes studies the basis and implications of the written novel. Briefly mentions that he shares the same chore as a novelist as García Márquez.
Presents the World Literature Today's Top ten Brazilian novels of the last twenty years (in 2001). Mentions that Paulo Coelho, a writer on the list,"is second most widely read Latin American writer ever" next to Gabriel García Márquez.
"Provides information on several Brazilian authors and their writing styles. Erico Verissimo; Jorge Amado; Isaac Babel." Mentions that Jorge Amado's style was similar to the Magical Realism of García Márquez.
Arturo Arias Ilan Stavans, Ismael P. Marquez, and Rafael Perez-Torres
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Secondary source, Miscellaneous
Publication Date:
Summer 2001
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United States : World Literature Today
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Library, University of Illinois
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75(3/4) : pp. 103-105
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Ilan Stavans writes, "My experiences with Spanish departments in most U.S. universities have made it painfully evident that when they speak of 'Latin American literature' they really mean Mexican and Southern Cone literature, with Garcia Marquez and Vargas Llosa thrown in as garnish."
García Márquez calls Germán Arciniegas, 'el más prolífero y metodico de todos, el único autor colombiano que disfruta de un mercado internacional y también el único que puede definirse como escritor profesional.'
Studies Mariano Picon Salas and his writings. Discusses his intellectual and humanistic qualities and his various influences in writing, critiquing, and developing essays. Briefly compares his historical works to other other authors including "Miguel Otero Silva y Arturo Uslar Pietri, Francisco Herrera Luque, Denzil Romero, Mario Vargas Llosa and Gabriel García Márquez."
"Renowned Colombian artist Fernando Botero recently donated works worth $200 million to his homeland to encourage cultural growth and an end to violence. Botero's works transcend national borders and cultures, and are accessible to everyone. He has painted the loveable side of Colombia he knew as a child, and the country's political turmoil he sees now." Botero states "someday, taxi drivers of the world will say to Colombian travelers, `Oh, you're from Colombia? Isn't that the country of Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the Olympic Gold Medal winner in women's weightlifting Maria Isabel Urrutia, and artist Fernando Botero?' And not mention Pablo Escobar even once."
Costa Rica : Instituto de Estudios Latinoamericanos (IDELA)
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Library, University of Illinois
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11 : p. 149
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Reviews "El Matador," by Jorge Ramirez Caro. Mentions that his novel approaches the quality of work in the depiction of dictatorship as "El Señor Presidente, by Asturias; El Otoño del Patriarca, by García Márquez; Yo el Supremo, by Roa Bastos, and El Recurso del Método, by Carpentier.