"Living to Tell the Tale, an astonishing first volume of the memoirs of Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez, closes with the author at age 28 leaving Colombia for Europe, a two-week assignment he stretches to three years. He is more than a decade from the string of masterpieces that will begin with One Hundred Years of Solitude." -Mellen
"Explores the representation of power and in showing how the body can serve as a means to achieve everyone's desires, goals, and freedom in the novel The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Eréndira and of Her Heartless Grandmother by Gabriel García MárquezS and the film "Eréndira," scripted by García Márquez. Master/slave theory in both texts. Representation of freedom for Eréndira. Battle for power and hegemony in the film and novel."
Analyzes the issues and problems associated with contemporary family structure in Medellín. Briefly mentions how Alonso Salazar, Gabriel García Márquez, Victor Gaviriar, among others, managed to portray the urban family structure well.
"At the end of 2000, I spent three months traveling around Latin America-- Barranquilla, Cartagena, Bogotá, Mexico City-- to interview friends and relatives for an oral biography of Gabriel García Márquez. Autobiography is central to García Márquez's fiction, and I was curious how the people (many of whom make appearances in his work) who knew Gabriel García Márquez as a young man would remember him." -Silvana Paternostro
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2003
Published:
Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
124-150
Notes:
"In the light, The General in His Labyrinth (1983) may be read as yet another variation on the theme of solitary, powerful men whose separation from reality leads to the fracturing of the self, historical agency, and the promise of solidarity."
Erika Munk interviews Nilo Cruz, the writer of the play "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings," which was inspired by Gabriel García Márquez's short story by the same name. They briefly discuss Márquez's influence on the play and the playwright.
Canada : Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
28(55-56) : p.165
Notes:
LeGrand writes, "It has often been said that in Colombia, one was born Liberal or Conservative; Gabriel Garcia Marquez's novel In Evil Hour (La Mala Hora) vividly portrays how such affiliations were lived at the local level."
