"Chock-full of hyperbole, symbolism, magic, tragedy and a good sense of humor, West Texans will be taken on a mystical and solemn ride through Latin America, courtesy of renown Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez. 'One Hundred Years of Solitude,' the most well-known and recognized work of the Nobel Prize winner, will be the topic of discussion Friday during the monthly meeting of UTPB's Spanish Literature Club. It has been translated into many languages, including English. With symbolism, folk tales and other literary elements usually found in Latin American literature, the book is considered by many critics the best Spanish Language contemporary novel, bested only by 'Don Quixote,' said Rhina Toruno-Haensly, adviser and founder of the club and professor of literature at the University of Texas of the Permian Basin."
Salamanca, Spain : Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
27(2) : 27-40
Notes:
"After locating US writer Jeffrey Eugenides against the background of recent minimalist fiction, this essay evaluates the influence of García Márquez's narratives 'Cien años de soledad' and 'Crónica de una muerte anunciada' on his first novel, 'The Virgin Suicides'. Centered on the novel's magical-realist features, the contrastive analysis contends that 'The Virgin Suicides' revives a distinctive modernist mythical impulse. Based on its literary borrowings, this impulse materializes in the endorsement of ancestral beliefs in a female principle and in the ethical demand to put an end to the gradual annihilation of the planet by post-industrial societies."
"Rumores sobre la gravedad del escritor colombiano Gabriel García Márquez." "García Márquez ha escrito una carta dirigida a todos sus amigos, la cual ha sido publicada por entero en algunas revistas de Estados Unidos. Algunos de los párrafos nos han parecido sumamente interesantes, ternamente tocan el corazón y nos ponen a pensar. Los hemos copiado a continuación para beneficio de esas personas que todavía no hayan tenido la oportunidad de leerlos."
Viewed on 29 January, 2008. || In this article Sabino discuses Marcelo Bucheli's book "Bananas and Business: The United Fruit Company in Colombia." In his discussion he states, "The massacre of UFCO laborers is important because this infamous event forms part of the company's 'terrible reputation' (p.3): Colombian novelist Gabriel García Márquez tells the story in his novel One Hundred Years of Solitude, referring to three thousand deaths, a deliberate inflation of the number of victims to make the story more spectacular... The fact that García Márquez's imaginative work has had so much influence on scholars is, I think, in part the reason for the intellectual bias against UFCO that prevails in Latin America."
De Guerva studies Marcelo Bucheli's work "Bananas and Business. The United Fruit Company in Colombia" and discusses enterprises in Columbia and Latin America. He references García Márquez' work, "Cien Años de Soledad," where historical information about the enterprise is found.
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
July, 1999
Published:
UK : BBC News
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
Viewed on 24 January, 2008.|"Actor Antonio Banderas is to follow-up his recent directorial debut with a TV series based on six unpublished stories by Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez."
Secondary source, Reviews of Books About Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
May 2003
Published:
United States : Chasqui
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
32(1) : p. 120
Notes:
This is a review of a book by Amelia Barilia, in which the author makes mention of the influence García Márquez had on the writing of Borges and Reyes.