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.
Marta Beatriz Ferrari interviews Jorge Riechmann. In an answer to a question, Riechmann states that "Cien Años de Soledad" by García Márquez was one if his great influences when he was young.
Chile : Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Instituto de Letras
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Library, University of Illinois
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36 : pp. 251-254
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Camilo Marks reviews the book "JOSÉ DONOSO. EL ESCRIBIDOR INTRUSO. ARTÍCULOS, CRÓNICAS Y ENTREVISTAS." Gabriel García Márquez is mentioned as being an important author.
"Profiles poet Juan Gustavo Cobo Borda. Style of his poetic work "Consejos para sobrevivir"; Description of the use of texts in his works; Analysis of his book 'La musa inclemente.'"Mentions his studies on Gabriel García Márquez.
"'En Colombia, la realidad supera a la ficción', ha dicho Gabriel García Márquez y la historia de los 147 soldados que en el Viernes Santo del 2003 se encontraron con semejante botín cuando participaban en la búsqueda de trés estadounidenses secuestrados por la guerrilla de las Fuerzas Armadas Revoluvionarias de Colombia (FARC), parece confirmar lo dicho por el genial escritor."
Martínez focuses on Latin American women writers from the twentieth century, with an emphasis on Julia Álvarez. She compares her and other women writers to their male counterparts, including Gabriel García Márquez.
"Together with Mario Vargas Llosa and Gabriel García Márquez, Julio Cortázar was one of the most representative authors of the Latin American magical realism genre. Within his extensive body of work, many descriptions of characters suffering physical disabilities, as well as situations suggesting such medical conditions can be extracted. In this review, two short stories by Cortázar are presented. In the first one, the main character could easily be a man suffering from corticobasal degeneration; in the second, an old woman with symptoms suggestive of progressive supranuclear palsy is clearly depicted. Despite the fact that one of the main ingredients in Cortázar's magical realism is fiction, cases described here fit real medical conditions quite well, making it hard to believe that they represent purely fantastic descriptions rather than the product of Cortázar's inquisitive observation and the description of real patients."
"Latin Finance has compiled its second annual ranking of the 50 most powerful and influential people in Latin America and the Caribbean, spanning business, politics, government, academia, and even pop culture." Gabriel García Márquez appears as number 37.