"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
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Library, University of Illinois
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27(2) : 27-40
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"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
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32(1) : p. 120
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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.
Michael Dwyer briefly discusses the creation of a movie based on Gabriel García Márquez's Love in the Time of Cholera, which is to be directed by Mike Newell.
"In commemoration of the four hundredth anniversary of the publication of part 1 of Don Quijote , Spanish author Antonio Muñoz Molina prepared the comments on the novel. Molina presented his remarks at the New York Public Library on April 16, 2005, during a program billed as 'Don Quixote at 400: A Tribute'." The article comments on how the most recent and critically acclaimed version of Don Quijote was rendered by Edith Grossman who translated works by various Spanish-Language writers, including Gabriel García Márquez.
Secondary source, Reviews of Books About Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
Jan-Feb 2004
Published:
Chile : Residencia San Roberto Bellarmino
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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53(526) : p. 56
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Reyes reviews Beigbeder's book Ultimo inventario antes de liquidación, which describes the work of fifty major authors. Reyes remarks that García Márquez is the only Latin American author mentioned.
New York, NY Video and Film : Foundation for Independent
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
This article discusses the feud between Gabriel García Márquez and Mario Vargas Llosa "Literary feuds don't come more poisonous than the 30-year stand-off that's divided those giants of Latin American letters, Gabriel García Márquez and Mario Vargas Llosa. And the real reason it all began is only now emerging."
"Presents an article on challenges facing Latin American literature. Importance of novels in expressing greater freedom to criticize society; Information on literary trends, including virtual realism and fantastical literature; Reasons behind the increase in the number of novels and short stories set in countries outside Latin America." Briefly Mentions García Márquez and his style of writing.
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
May-June, 2004
Published:
Washington,DC : Foreign Policy
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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(142) : 76
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"Translations into Persian, such as paperbacks of John Grisham and Agatha Christie are experiencing a boom market. People also read novels by Toni Morrison and Milan Kundera, as well as political books by Anthony Giddens, Henando de Soto, and Francis Fukuyama. Europe and Latin America remain Iran's key cultural reference points, so many Iranians cherish Sir Karl Popper, Jacques Derrida, Jurgen Habermas, and Gabriel García Márquez."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
November 2005
Published:
New York, NY : Esquire Publisher
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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144(5) : 56
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This article reviews Memories of My Melancholy Whores. The author states, "No doubt the work will be clucked at severely by reviewers of a tender age and gender--although perhaps not so severely as they peck at Messers Mailer and Roth and other old cocksmen who lack the protection of Third World cachet. But any actual sin would be committed only if they failed to see that Memories is an elegant, sturdy meditation on regret, isolation, decay, and the inevitable perversity of redemption."
Viewed on 29 January, 2008. "El ex presidente de EEUU, Bill Clinton, declaró en una entrevista publicada por la revista Cambio, de Colombia, que el escritor Gabriel García Márquez es su 'héroe literario.'"
"Life did not imitate art on Sunday when this town where Gabriel García Márquez was born and first heard the ghost stories that would inform the 'magical realism' of his novels rejected a proposal to change its name to honor him."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
November 12, 2005
Published:
Vancouver, Canada : CanWest Interactive
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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Books; F18
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Anderson critiques Gabriel García Márquez's Memories of My Melancholy Whores and states that "the novel's narrative creeks with age, and its novella-length brevity suggests that García Márquez's stamina may be fading. Yet the author still manages to grace Melancholy Whores with passages of limber loveliness. "Sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love," he writes."
Christenson focuses on the book Vivir para contarla (To Live to Tell the Tale), a memoir by Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez. She relates the anticipation for the book in the Spanish-speaking communities of the United States and mentions the pirated imports and photocopied versions of the book.
"Focuses on the book 'Vivir Para Contarla,' a memoir by Colombian author, Gabriel García Márquez. Anticipation for the book in the Spanish-speaking communities in the United States; Mention of pirated imports and photocopied versions of the book."
Hart studies and analyzes Simón Bolívar. He studies his impact in Latin America and provides biographical and informational data. The end of the article details information on Bolívar's portrayal in García Márquez' work El general en su laberinto.
In discussing Edith Grossman’s nomination for the Manheim Medal Marcela Valdes states "The Manheim Medal, which is awarded only once every three years, recognizes a lifetime of excellence in translation, and, at 70, Grossman's earned it by a fat margin. For 35 years, she's brought Latin American stars such as Mayra Montero and Mario Vargas Llosa into English. Most recently, Gabriel García Márquez won a Los Angeles Times Book Award with her translation of Memories of My Melancholy Whores."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
December 17, 2005
Published:
Ontario, Canada : Toronto Star Newspaper
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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Books; D10
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In reviewing García Márquez's Memories of My Melancholy Whores, Tong states, "The premise sounds creepy, but García Márquez can find a liberating sense of wonder anywhere... Memories of My Melancholy Whores isn't about sex or love, anyway -- it's about the limits and freedoms of age, the "risks of being alive," as the narrator puts it."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
May 15, 2005
Published:
Tampa, FL : The Tribune Co.
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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Baylife; 8
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Walker reviews Chronicle of a Death Foretold, stating that "this slim volume might be the best entry into Márquez's work. It contains many of the elements that mark so much of his fiction - love, fate, familial ties, dreams, desperation, magic - as well as some of his tightest writing."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
July 24, 2005
Published:
Tampa, FL : The Tribune Co.
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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Baylife; 6
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Walker lists One Hundred Years of Solitude as a book everyone should read. He states that "reading Gabriel García Márquez is akin to sitting around a campfire, listening to a master storyteller, and his prose retains its magic even in translation from the Spanish."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
October 2, 2005
Published:
Boston, MA : Globe Newspaper Company
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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Books; D7
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Pearlman quotes a review by Stephen McCauley on One Hundred Years of Solitude which states that "after reading this novel there was no forgetting that modern literature is bigger than the English language. Marquez took the top of my head off with the incantational beauty of his imagination, the mythic explication of South American history, the living ghosts and the dead ghosts, the dizzying repetition of names from one generation to the next."
"Living to Tell the Tale-- a title that conjures memories of Moby Dick, as well as this Nobel laureate's own nonfiction book, The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor-- is the first volume of a planned autobiographical trilogy. But its most powerful sections read like one of his mesmerizing novels, transporting the reader to a Latin America haunted by the ghosts of history and shaped by the exigencies of its daunting geography, by its heat and jungles and febrile light. The book provides a memorable portrait of a young writer's apprenticeship as the one William Styron gave us in Sophie's Choice, even as it illuminates the alchemy Mr. García Márquez acquired from masters like Faulkner and Joyce and Borges and later used to transform family stories and firsthand experiences into fecund myths of his own."
Atlanta, Georgia : The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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Library, University of Illinois
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4D
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Freeman's review on Living to Tell the Tale: "The verdict: A maestro at work. Full of rich researched anecdotes from the writer's childhood in a small Colombian village, the book has all the weight and exquisite storytelling prowess of Márquez's two fiction masterpieces, Love in the Time of Cholera and One Hundred Years of Solitude."
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
October 15, 2004
Published:
Washington, DC : United Press International
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
Viewed on 28 January, 2008.|"Pirated copies of the newest novel by famed Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez are being sold on the streets, El Tiempo newspaper reported Friday."
"Bosnian film director Emir Kusturica joined Gabriel García Márquez on Monday at the opening of a workshop the famed Colombian writer is giving at Cuba's International School of Cinema and Television."
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
November, 1999/January, 2000
Published:
Bogotá, Colombia : Arte en Colombia
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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(34) : 64-67
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In this interview artist and collector Fernando Botero discusses a range of topics, including his recent donations from his art collection to two museums in Colombia, how he started out as an artist, the parallel between his work and that of Gabriel García Márquez, and his art collecting.
"The film version of [Jorge] Franco's second novel, "Rosario tijeras," just opened in Colombia, where it has been doing boffo business. Franco is the biggest-selling author from Colombia since Nobel Prize winner Gabriel García Márquez."
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
April, 1992
Published:
New York, NY : Stanley Foundation
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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39(4) : 40
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"Notes that Nobel-prize winning author, Gabriel García Márquez, recently became co-owner of a new nightly television news show in his native Colombia. The function of the program to act as a school of journalism. Deals with the relationships between journalism and literature."
Contreras states that in Washington Middle School "there are long hallways decorated with student essays in Spanish and English about activist Cesar Chavez, Actress Rita Moreno, and Nobel Laureate Gabriel García Márquez."
"With great sadness we learn that the Colombian Nobel prize-winner Gabriel García Márquez and the Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, after a thrillingly long and bitter feud, are patching up their differences."
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
February, 2004
Published:
La Paz, Bolivia
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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Sección Cultural
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Four citizens of Colombia have asked by means of judicial action that the man who inspired Gabriel García Márquez's No One Writes to the Colonel, Nicolás Márquez Mejía, maternal grandfather of Gabriel García Márquez, be promoted from rank of colonel to general.
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
October 17, 2004
Published:
Bueno Aires, Argentina : Editorial La Pagina
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
Viewed 28 January, 2008.|Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez has been asked informally to help mediate with Fidel Castro in the case of a Cuban doctor banned for leaving the island for Argentina, where her son and grandchildren reside, according to one Buenos Aires daily.
In critiquing writer Mark Kurlansky for insulting president Bush, the Investor's Business Daily stated that, " Novelist Gabriel García Márquez, whose "One Hundred Years of Solitude" was said to be Clinton's all-time favorite, not only refrained from insulting the president, but he rose in his defense. Speaking of Clinton's sexual escapade, Márquez said the president "only wanted to do what every man has done and hidden from his wife since the beginning of time." "
Jeffrey Lamb analyzes and reviews Humberto Crosthwaite's novel, El Gran Pretender. In the critical essay he discusses how Crosthwaite is "the product of a university education that presented canonical writers from both Mexico and Latin America, including those of the "Boom": Julio Cortazar, Mario Vargas Llosa, Carlos Fuentes, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez."
This article reviews J.H. Blair's book "Caliente!: The Best Erotic Writing in Latin American Fiction," which the author states "includes a diverse mix of well-known and underexposed Latin American authors, among them Gabriel García Márquez..."
Fuentes describes the enigmatic nature of Mexico, and Bach quotes him as saying, "You know, when Garcia Marquez feels he doesn't understand Mexico, what's going on-it's such a complicated country-he goes to the anthropological museum and stands in front of Coatlicue for half an hour and says 'Now I understand!' In Mexico there is this enigma, which is a great spurt to the writer and artist, of course."
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."
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.
Luis Alberto Fonseca V. and Marco A. Valenciacallle
Format:
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
October, 2002
Published:
Bogotá, Colombia : El Tiempo, S.A.
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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Cartas al director
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Letters to the editor from readers discussing issues related to Gabriel García Márquez, such as the disrespect that has been shown to the Nobel Prize winner through bootleggings.
Eliseo Alberto Diego Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Gabriel García Márquez, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Mario García Joya, au., dir., screenplay, music, and photography
Format:
Primary source, Audio-visual Materials
Publication Date:
2003, 1988
Published:
Cuba : Cine Cubano
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
Matanzas, Cuba, 1913. Two shy young lovers enlist the help of a poet to write passionate letters to each other. When the poet becomes enamored of the young woman, the three are faced with a perplexing dilemma.
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
October 23, 2004
Published:
New York, NY : Associated Press
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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International News
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"President Fidel Castro, recovering from a fall that broke his kneecap and arm, has received get-well wishes from the leaders around the globe, state media reported Saturday. Presidents Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva of Brazil, Nestor Kirchner of Argentina and Sam Nujoma sent their wishes, along with Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez and Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi. Presidents Vicente Fox of Mexico, Ricardo Lagos of Chile and Martin Torrijos of Panama also sent their regards, said the Communist Party daily."
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
January, 2004
Published:
India : Bennett, Coleman & Co Ltd
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
"Here's a sampling of the most popular real life stories now on bookshelves: Kapil, Straight from the Heart; Sachin, The Story of the World's Greatest Batsman; Sonia, A Biography; Gabriel García Márquez, Living to Tell the Tale; Kamala Das, A Childhood in Malabar; Queen Noor, Leap of Faith; Madonna, An Intimate Biography; Dilip Kumar, A Definitive Biography; Gulzar, Because He is; MS Subbalakshmi, Kunjamma and Leila Seth: On Balance. Still on top of the favourite list are David Beckham, My Side; Britney Spears, Heart to Heart; Ball of Fire: The Tumultuous life and comic art of Lucille Ball; Geri Halliwell, If Only; and Madeline Albright, Madam Secretary."
This article reviews Marie Arana's book "Cellophane." The author, Jennifer Stidham, states, "Acclaimed Peruvian-American author Arana (American Chica) treads the ground between the stark realities of mid-century Peruvian politics and changing the social mores and the sensitive and honest portrayal of a family in chaos as adroitly as the giants of the genre, including Gabriel García Márquez and Isabel Allende."
In talking about Malala's essay, Write the beloved Country, Roberts states that "in praising Zakes Mda as "reminiscent of Gabriel García Márquez", Mr. Malala seems unaware that Mda rejects that comparison as condescending."
Viewed on 29 January, 2008. "El gobierno de Irán decidió prohibir la más reciente novela del escritor colombiano Gabriel García Márquez, 'Memoria de mis putas tristes,' al argumentar que la autorización inicial para distribuirla se debió a un 'error burocrático,' informó ayer la agencia informativa local Fars."
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
April, 2003
Published:
Slate, MSN
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
Viewed on 24 January, 2008. ||Waldman states that novels are not selling as one would expect them to, mainly due to the lack of interest from the public in modern novels. Waldman reiterates that people would rather read the classics than read a modern novel; therefore, publishing companies will be spending more money on promoting classics.
Ortega discusses the history of Cervantes' Don Quixote and the role of alternative spaces and locations in relation to the novel. He comments on Gabriel García Márquez' view that the climate in the valley is fresh and that people do not sleep in Cartagena to see the dawn of the Caribbean world.
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."
Washington, DC : Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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(135) : 78-79
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Castro reviews the book Vivir para contarla or Living to Tell the Tale by Gabriel García Márquez, in relation to the beginnings of their friendship and their similar experiences.
London, UK : Routledge for the Institute of Psycho-Analysis
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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79(2) : pp. 317-331
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In this paper the author discusses the situation of children handed over to grandparents or to other relatives of the natural parents to be brought up. She notes that such children are faced with the riddle of their own filiation and postulates that this scenario often conceals an oedipal fantasy to the effect that the child concerned is the fruit of an incestuous relationship between a grandparent and the relevant parent. Following the example of Freud, the author adduces literary models for illustration. As with the Oedipus of Sophocles, the author shows how efforts to thwart the workings of fate actually bring about the consummation of the tragedy in the form of incest, which is favoured by the confused oedipal configuration in the families of handed-over children. The main argument is based on the characters and situations of two novels by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, written at different times in his life. With reference to the psychoanalytic literature on artistic creativity, the author shows the importance of the mid-life crisis in determining how Garcia Marquez came to terms with the fact of having himself been entrusted to grandparents as a child and how this situation is reflected in the works concerned.-- Scopus
"En ocasión del XXVII festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano, y con la presencia del Premio Nobel de Literatura Gabriel García Márquez, el viernes 9 de diciembre quedó abierta en la Galería Latinoamericana de la Casa de las Américas la exposición Cien años de soledad al aguafuerte..."
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
July-Dec 2001
Published:
Costa Rica : Instituto de estudios latinoamericanos (IDELA)
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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12 : pp. 182-185
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Abril writes, "El 'XX Congreso Nacional de Literatura, Lingüística y Semiótica' eligió a Gabriel García Márquez, Premio Nobel de Literatura y uno de los más destacados escritores colombianos, para rendirle homenaje, al cumplir setenta años de vida y treinta años de la publicación de Cien años de soledad." The article discusses his influence on Latin American literature.
"Ahora que el realismo mágico es un capítulo de la historia de la literatura hispanoamericana, 'Cien años de soledad' revela su capacidad inagotada para tolerar y aun proponer nuevas significaciones, y entre ellas merece atención la que cabe relacionar con García Márquez y con su necesidad de dejar testimonio de su infacia, trascurrida en una casa grande y muy triste, con una hermana que comía tierra, una abuela que adivinaba el porvenir, un abuelo que evocaba recuerdos incesantes de una interminable guerra civil y numerosos parientes de nombres iguales que nunca alcanzaron a percibir claramente los límites que seraraban la demencia y la felicidad."
United States : University of Miami, Latin American Politics & Society
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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45(1) : pp. 87-118
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Green writes about the military dictatorship in Brazil, and the various reactions throughout the United States. With a brief mention of García Márquez, Green depicts "an international group of prestigious figures known for their commitment to progressive causes."
"Mike Newell is filming Love in the Time of Cholera in South America's most notorious country, and he is in good company. Maya Jaggi reports on Colombia's film-industry boom."
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
December 16, 2005
Published:
New York, NY : Associated Press
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
International News
Notes:
"Facilitators from Spain, Norway, and Switzerland and the Nobel Prize-winning Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez were to assist in this year's discussions."
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
December 16, 2005
Published:
New York, NY : Associated Press
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
International News
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"Peace talks between Colombia and its second-largest rebel group begin Friday in Cuba with help from Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel García Márquez..."
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
December 17, 2005
Published:
Agence France Presse
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
"Negotiators for Colombia's second-largest guerrilla group and tat countries government met for peace talks here Friday, facilitated by Nobel literature laureate Gabriel García Márquez."
After admitting for a long time, and in some cases in a simple and compliant manner, the definition of Colombia as a "land of poets" and of Bogotá as "The Athens of South America," new writers and scholars put these concepts on trial and try to formulate a literary and different cultural conscience,while giving explanations to thought and the expressive forms of the past.
"Nobel Prize-winner Gabriel García Márquez, who rarely offers glimpses into his private life, says he has stopped writing for the time being, at least."
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
December 16, 2005
Published:
New York, NY : Associated Press
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
International News
Notes:
"Exploratory peace talks between Colombia and its second-largest rebel group began in Cuba with help from Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel García Márquez and facilitators from Spain, Norway, and Switzerland... "It should make them ashamed if they don't arrive at anything this time," said García Márquez, talking with officials on the sidelines of the event."
"Residents of the hometown of Nobel Prize-winning novelist Gabriel García Márquez failed to pass a referendum Sunday to change the town's name to Macondo, the fictitious tropical hamlet in his masterpiece 'One Hundred Years of Solitude.'"
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
May 29, 2004
Published:
New York, NY : Associated Press
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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International News
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"The Colombian government is willing to talk peace with the smaller of the country's two rebel groups if it halts attacks, even if it doesn't lay down its arms, President Alvaro Uribe said Saturday. Before meeting with members of the Colombian community in Mexico City, including renowned novelist Gabriel García Márquez, Uribe said the National Liberation Army, or ELN, could quickly achieve peace without disbanding, as long it displays a willingness to negotiate."
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
October 15, 2004
Published:
Swansea, Wales : South Wales Evening Post
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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"Swansea's Taliesin Arts Centre has a choice of dramatic viewing next week - from the comic talents of Italian playwright Dario Fo to the haunting poetic work of Gabriel García Márquez."
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
July, 2003
Published:
México DF, México : La Jornada
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
Sección Cultura
Notes:
With 2,000 books, mostly novels, some donated by the Cultural Economic Fund, the first Latin American library in Canada opened in Quebec about a month ago. It was baptized with the name of the Colombian Nobel prize winner, Gabriel García Márquez.
"It was heartening, then, to read the next day of the new Gabriel García Márquez novel, Memories of My Melancholy Whores, which has just gone on sale in the Hispanophone world. García Márquez is 76 and unwell, but his book seems to be about sex,love and age, not age, death and funerals. Its principal character is a retired journalist, just turning 90, who decides to mark his birthday by sleeping with a 14-year old virgin prostitute (the book is set in Colombia in the 1950s, putting plenty of cultural distance between us and the uncomfortable morality of that time and place)."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
December 17, 2005
Published:
Ontario, Canada : Toronto Star Newspapers
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
Books; C4
Notes:
"In the recently published first volume of his memoirs, Living to Tell the Tale, Gabriel García Márquez makes it clear right from the beginning that his autobiography won't just be about what really happened. His memory of events is in various places irreconcilable with "the facts." It is an old magical realist's dream of the past, not an attempt at historical recovery. Memories of My Melancholy Whores is a short novel, a novella really, written in much the same spirit."
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
July-September, 2002
Published:
Barranquilla, Colombia : La casa de Asterión
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
3(10)
Notes:
Viewed on 24 January, 2008.||Interview with Gustavo Ibarra Merlano about García Márquez. Begins with a brief description of how Ibarra and García Márquez met. He provides a surplus of details about García Márquez and his education and what kind of person he was when they met. Then, the interviewer, asks Ibarra to compare La hojarasca to Antigone, who points out that they are similar because they both discuss power relations.