"Toparse en cuestión de minutos con el hombre más rico del mundo y el novelista más famoso parece improbable, pero eso sucedió en esta ciudad colombiana como una señal de que la realidad tiene algo de mágico. Así le sucedió a unos 600 miembros de la Sociedad Interamericana de Prensa (SIP): Cuando salieron de una conferencia dictada por Bill Gates e iban a almorzar se toparon, sorpresivamente, con el único que probablemente sea aún más célebre: Gabriel García Márquez."
"One Hundred Years of Solitude is so ingrained in world culture that it has assumed the feel of an epic folktale- it's strange to think there was a time, not so long ago, when it wasn't around. Love in the Time of Cholera, Autumn of the Patriarch, and others aren't far behind. So it's cause for rejoicing that Gabriel García Márquez has chosen, while still clearly at the height of his powers, to embark on his autobiography, of which this book is the first in a projected trilogy. Readers will relish the chance to sift the Colombian author's life for the seeds of his magic realism, and the master doesn't disappoint."
Viewed on 28 January, 2008.||"The novel has an epic air to it, crossing so much time and carefully interweaving the development of the characters. The aged love of Fermina Daza and Florentino Ariza impresses with the wisdom and patience of age. Long sections of the book are devoted to Juvenal Urbino, including his ethical struggle over his desire for his patient, his horror at the medical conditions of his country after studying abroad, and his negotiations with Fermina Daza, who expects him to be a husband as well as a doctor."
"Twenty years after García Márquez received the Nobel Prize for literature for the acclaimed One Hundred Years of Solitude, several Spanish-language publishers from Latin America and Spain are releasing the long-awaited first volume of this Colombian author's memoirs."
Canada : Concordia University, Canadian Association for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
31(61) : 252-254
Notes:
Fernando Valerio-Holguín discusses Ignacio López-Calvo's "God and Trujillo" and the impact of Trujillo's dictatorship on Dominican and Latin American culture. In this discussion of López Calvo's work, Valerio Holguín notes that "God and Trujillo" not only focuses on Dominican literature, but Latin American literature including, among others, that of Gabriel García Márquez.
"Guadalajara's Feria Internacional del Libro (FIL), the Spanish-language world's most prominent book fair, celebrated its 18th anniversary in Mexico from November 27 to December 5. Every year, the fair gains more popularity as the place for the Spanish-language world's cultural elite to be and be seen. Mexican president Vicente Fox made an appearance on December 3 and all the crème de la crème of Spanish-language letters were available for close-ups. Gabriel García Márquez, still riding high from the remarkable international sales of his latest novella, Memoria de mis putas tristes (Memories of My Melancholy Whores), was spotted hitting the dance floor of the popular casino Veracruz with fellow Mexican Boom writer Carlos Fuentes."
The article talks about violence and drugs in Columbia. Brief mention of Gabriel García Márquez as a kind of historian of Twentieth century Colombian violence.