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Book Synopsis Gabriel García Márquez by : Rubén Pelayo
Download or read book Gabriel García Márquez written by Rubén Pelayo and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-12-30 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master of magic realism, distinguished journalist and film critic, friend of world leaders ranging from Fidel Castro to Pres. Bill Clinton, Gabriel García Márquez improbably emerged from obscure beginnings to become an author more beloved of readers worldwide than any other living writer. His plots and protean characters plunge readers into the world of fable, yet their universal appeal, as this biography shows, is deeply rooted in the particularity of García Márquez's own idiosyncratic early life and his later wide travels, all undertaken with the restless curiosity and zest for life that he manages to evoke in his readers.
Book Synopsis Gabriel García Márquez by : Gerald Martin
Download or read book Gabriel García Márquez written by Gerald Martin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive biography of the author of One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in a Time of Cholera.
Book Synopsis Gabriel Garcia Marquez: A Biography by : Angela Bussone
Download or read book Gabriel Garcia Marquez: A Biography written by Angela Bussone and published by Hyperink Inc. This book was released on 2012-07-30 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ABOUT THE BOOK Colombian-born author Gabriel García Márquez, or "Gabo" as he is known, is the preeminent figure among Latin American writers and an internationally recognized leader in contemporary literature. García Márquez, a writer, journalist, political activist and screenwriter, is considered the "father of magical realism," spawning a new genre of literature forty five years ago with a solitary composition. To date, the Nobel Prize-winning author has written more than twenty works, including novels, novellas, short stories, and nonfiction, which have resulted in numerous adaptations as plays and films. One Hundred Years of Solitude alone has sold more than thirty million copies throughout the world, with translations of his works appearing in thirty five languages. In this compact volume, gain an understanding of García Márquez the man and his most respected works. MEET THE AUTHOR Angela Bussone received a juris doctor and Advanced Legal Research, Writing and Drafting Certificate from Florida Coastal School of Law, where she served on the Law Review Board as technical editor. She also holds a Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of North Florida, where she was president of the Playwrights' Club, Features Editor for the school's newspaper, and wrote a play selected for the New South Young Playwrights Festival at the Horizon Theatre Co. Her writings have appeared in The Florida Times-Union, where she was a writer; the Florida Coastal Law Review, and in various publications and academic journals. She lives in a small coastal town in Northeast Florida with her husband and six-pound Persian cat, where she performs as violinist and composes songs for an Americana band, supports the local symphony and artists, and volunteers her time with organizations devoted to encouraging literacy, protection and enjoyment of the ocean, and preventing homelessness. EXCERPT FROM THE BOOK Although García Márquez has permeated the literary world and has been just as equally embraced, his career has not been without controversy. Last September of 2011, The Guardian reported copies of García Márquez's book, News of a Kidnapping, had sold out in Iran because of comments by opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi, who was reported in The Guardian as saying the book's account of kidnappings in Colombia as "an accurate reflection of his life under house arrest." News of a Kidnapping gives the account of the kidnappings of prominent Colombians in the 1990s under the direction of Pablo Escobar. A piece in The Atlantic by William Kennedy uncovers the financial strain during this period for the family, and how Mercedes got the family through it by selling most of the couple's possessions and borrowing twelve thousand dollars from family and friends. García Márquez told Kennedy he was unaware of how Mercedes was able to provide during this time, but never asked any questions. Yet a supply of whiskey and "[g]ood Scotch" was always on hand for the writer and future Nobel Prize winner in his Mexico City "Cave of the Mafia" writing space, where he spent eight to ten hours a day writing. CHAPTER OUTLINE Background and Basics + Introduction + Family and upbringing Public and Private Persona + Major accomplishments and awards + Personal life + Recent News + Public Statements and Attributed Quotes + ...and much more Extras + Trivia and Facts + Sources and Further Reading ...buy the book to continue reading!
Book Synopsis Gabriel Garcia Marquez: A Life by : Gerald Martin
Download or read book Gabriel Garcia Marquez: A Life written by Gerald Martin and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2009-12-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gabriel García Márquez, author of One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera, is one of the most popular writers of the last 50 years. Gerald Martin's superb achievement is to reveal the gritty, fascinating, and frequently humorous reality behind the books. While completely immersing himself in García Márquez's world, Martin never loses his critical perspective as he recounts a life that is as gripping and revealing as the writer's powerful journalism, and as complex and involving as any of his fictions.
Book Synopsis Solitude & Company by : Silvana Paternostro
Download or read book Solitude & Company written by Silvana Paternostro and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2019-02-26 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An oral history biography of the legendary Latin American writer and Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez, brimming with atmosphere and insight. Irrevent and hopeful, Solitude & Company recounts the life of a boy from the provinces who decided to become a writer. This is the story of how he did it, how little Gabito became Gabriel García Márquez, and of how Gabriel García Márquez survived his own self-creation. The book is divided into two parts. In the first, BC, before Cien años de soledad (One Hundred Years of Solitude), his siblings speak and those who were friends before García Márquez became the universally loved Latin American icon. Those who knew him when he still didn't have a proper English tailor nor an English biographer, and didn't accompany presidents. It gathers together the voices around the boy from the provinces, the sisters and brothers, the childhood friends, the drinking buddies and penniless fellow students. The second part, AC, describes the man behind the legend that García Márquez became. From Aracataca, to Baranquila, to Bogota, to Paris, to Mexico City, the solitude that García Márquez needed to produce his masterpiece turns out to have been something of a raucous party whenever he wasn't actually writing. Here are the writers Tomás Eloy Martínez, Edmundo Paz Soldán and William and Rose Styron; legendary Spanish agent Carmen Balcells; the translator of A Hundred Years of SolitudeGregory Rabassa; Gabo's brothers Luis Enrique, Jaime, Eligio and Gustavo, and his sisters Aida and Margot; María Luisa Elío, to whom A Hundred Years of Solitude is dedicated; and so much more: a great deal of music, especially the vallenato; the hilarious scenes of several hundred Colombians, García Márquez's chosen delegation, flying to Stockholm for the Nobel Prize celebrations; the time Mario Vargas Llosa punched Gabriel García Márquez in the face; and much, much more. In Living to Tell the Tale, the first volume of García Márquez's autobiography, Gabo writes: "I am consoled, however, that at times oral history might be better than written, and without knowing it we may be inventing a new genre needed by literature: fiction about fiction." Solitude & Company joins other great oral histories, like Jean Stein and George Plimpton's Edie: American Girl, their oral history biography of Edie Sedgwick, or Barry Gifford's oral history of Jack Kerouac, Jack's Book--an intimate portrait of the most human side of Gabriel García Márquez told in the words of those who knew him best throughout his life.
Book Synopsis Gabriel Garcia Marquez by : Yvette E. Miller
Download or read book Gabriel Garcia Marquez written by Yvette E. Miller and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Living to Tell the Tale by : Gabriel García Márquez
Download or read book Living to Tell the Tale written by Gabriel García Márquez and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2014-10-15 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN eBOOK! No writer of his time exerted the magical appeal of Gabriel García Márquez. In this long-awaited autobiography, the great Nobel laureate tells the story of his life from his birth in1927 to the moment in the 1950s when he proposed to his wife. The result is as spectacular as his finest fiction. Here is García Márquez’s shimmering evocation of his childhood home of Aracataca, the basis of the fictional Macondo. Here are the members of his ebulliently eccentric family. Here are the forces that turned him into a writer. Warm, revealing, abounding in images so vivid that we seem to be remembering them ourselves, Living to Tell the Tale is a work of enchantment.
Book Synopsis García Márquez by : Gene H. Bell-Villada
Download or read book García Márquez written by Gene H. Bell-Villada and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gabriel Garcia Marquez is one of the most influential writers of our time, with a unique literary creativity rooted in the history of his native Colombia. This revised and expanded edition of a classic work is the first book of criticism to consider in detail the totality of Garcia Marquez's magnificent oeuvre. In a beautifully written examination, Gene Bell-Villada traces the major forces that have shaped the novelist and describes his life, his personality, and his politics. For this edition, Bell-Villada adds new chapters to cover all of Garcia Marquez's fiction since 1988, from The General in His Labyrinth through Memories of My Melancholy Whores, and includes sections on his memoir, Living to Tell the Tale, and his journalistic account, News of a Kidnapping. Moreover, new information about Garcia Marquez's biography and artistic development make this the most comprehensive account of his life and work available.
Book Synopsis Living to Tell the Tale by : Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Download or read book Living to Tell the Tale written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2014-03-06 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Living to Tell the Tale Gabriel Garcia Marquez - winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature and author of One Hundred Years of Solitude - recounts his personal experience of returning to the house in which he grew up and the memories that this visit conjured. 'My mother asked me to go with her to sell the house' Gabriel Garcia Marquez was twenty-three, a young man experimenting with his writing when this mother asked him to come back with her to the village of his grandparents and the memories of his Colombian childhood. In the first part of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's memoir, the Nobel Prize-winning author returns to the atmosphere and influences that shaped his formidable imagination and formed the basis of his world-famous, and much-loved, fiction. 'A treasure trove, a discovery of a lost land we knew existed but couldn't find. A thrilling miracle of a book' The Times 'A marvellous journey. Never less than a miracle' Sunday Times 'Marquez writes in this lyrical, magical language that no one else can do' Salman Rushdie
Book Synopsis Gabriel García Márquez by : Harold Bloom
Download or read book Gabriel García Márquez written by Harold Bloom and published by Chelsea House. This book was released on 2005 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A South American writer and winner of the Nobel Prize, Gabriel García Márquez is most recognized for his novel One Hundred Years of Solitude.
Book Synopsis Gabriel García Márquez by : Don Nardo
Download or read book Gabriel García Márquez written by Don Nardo and published by . This book was released on 2007-11 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles the life of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the author of One Hundred Years of Solitude and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Download or read book My Name is Gabito written by Monica Brown and published by Cooper Square Pub. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life of the famous author unfolds.
Book Synopsis A Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes by : Rodrigo Garcia
Download or read book A Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes written by Rodrigo Garcia and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-07-27 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This is a beautiful farewell to two extraordinary people. It enthralled and moved me, and it will move and enthrall anyone who has ever entered the glorious literary world of Gabriel García Márquez.”—Salman Rushdie “In A Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes Rodrigo Garcia finds the words that cannot be said, the moments that signal all that is possible to know about the passage from life to death, from what love brings and the loss it leaves. With details as rich as any giant biography, you will find yourself grieving as you read, grateful for the profound art that remains a part of our cultural heritage.”—Walter Mosley, New York Times bestselling author of Down the River Unto the Sea “An intensely personal reflection on [Garcia's] father's legacy and his family bonds, tender in its treatment and stirring in its brevity.”—Booklist (starred review) The son of one of the greatest writers of our time—Nobel Prize winner and internationally bestselling icon Gabriel García Márquez—remembers his beloved father and mother in this tender memoir about love and loss. In March 2014, Gabriel García Márquez, one of the most acclaimed writers of the twentieth century, came down with a cold. The woman who had been beside him for more than fifty years, his wife Mercedes Barcha, was not hopeful; her husband, affectionately known as “Gabo,” was then nearly 87 and battling dementia. I don't think we'll get out of this one, she told their son Rodrigo. Hearing his mother’s words, Rodrigo wondered, “Is this how the end begins?” To make sense of events as they unfolded, he began to write the story of García Márquez’s final days. The result is this intimate and honest account that not only contemplates his father’s mortality but reveals his remarkable humanity. Both an illuminating memoir and a heartbreaking work of reportage, A Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes transforms this towering genius from literary creator to protagonist, and paints a rich and revelatory portrait of a family coping with loss. At its center is a man at his most vulnerable, whose wry humor shines even as his lucidity wanes. Gabo savors affection and attention from those in his orbit, but wrestles with what he will lose—and what is already lost. Throughout his final journey is the charismatic Mercedes, his constant companion and the creative muse who was one of the foremost influences on Gabo’s life and his art. Bittersweet and insightful, surprising and powerful, A Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes celebrates the formidable legacy of Rodrigo’s parents, offering an unprecedented look at the private family life of a literary giant. It is at once a gift to Gabriel García Márquez’s readers worldwide, and a grand tribute from a writer who knew him well. “You read this short memoir with a feeling of deep gratitude. Yes, it is a moving homage by a son to his extraordinary parents, but also much more: it is a revelation of the hidden corners of a fascinating life. A Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes is generous, unsentimental and wise.” —Juan Gabriel Vásquez, author of The Sound of Things Falling “A warm homage filled with both fond and painful memories.” —Kirkus "Garcia’s limpid prose gazes calmly at death, registering pain but not being overcome by it . . . the result is a moving eulogy that will captivate fans of the literary lion." — Publishers Weekly
Book Synopsis Gabriel Garcia Márquez und Simón Bolivar im Labyrinth der Geschichte by : Ingrid Beutler-Tackenberg
Download or read book Gabriel Garcia Márquez und Simón Bolivar im Labyrinth der Geschichte written by Ingrid Beutler-Tackenberg and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Garcia Marquez' biographischer Roman über den lateinamerikanischen Freiheitshelden Simon Bolivar hat bei seinem Erscheinen zu heftigen Kontroversen geführt, denn der Text steht in einem spannungsreichen Verhältnis zum offiziellen Bild des glq Befreiers grq im lateinamerikanischen Selbstverständnis. Er ist Ausdruck der Skepsis des Autors sowohl gegenüber dem romantischen Konzept des glq Helden grq als auch dem geschichtsphilosophischen des glq welthistorischen Individuums grq. Als historischer Roman mit dem expliziten Anspruch auf historiographische Genauigkeit nimmt "El general en su laberinto " einerseits eine Sonderstellung im bisherigen Oeuvre Garcia Marquez' ein, andererseits weist der Text intertextuelle Bezüge insbesondere zu einem Frühwerk des Autors ("El coronel no tiene quien le escriba ") auf und erlaubt Rückschlüsse sowohl auf dessen Position innerhalb aktueller ästhetischer und historiographischer Theoriedebatten als auch auf seine politische Haltung. Ambivalente und tragische Aspekte dominieren in der deheroisierenden Darstellung des glq Libertador grq, dessen Stellenwert als Identifikationsfigur der lateinamerikanischen Geschichte jedoch nicht angetastet, sondern eher unterstrichen wird. Die symbolische Infrastruktur des biographischen Romans korreliert mit der gegenwartspolitischen Bedeutung, die der Autor dem Protagonisten beimisst. Unterschwellige Anspielungen auf den kubanischen Regierungschef Fidel Castro und die Thematisierung der Genese der Auslandsverschuldung lateinamerikanischer Staaten lassen den Schluss zu, dass der Autor mit seiner fiktionalen Biographie auch politische Ziele verfolgt.On its publication, Garcia Marquez' fictionalized biography of the Latin American hero of independence, Simon Bolivar, brought about strong controversies. In fact, the novel depicts a rather unusual glq liberator grq as compared to his official image in Latin American history. It is a manifestation of the author's scepticism concerning the romantic conception of the glq hero grq as well as towards the glq world-historic individual grq of Hegelian philosophy of history. "El general en su laberinto " being a historical novel, explicitely based on exact historical investigation, it holds an exceptional place within the work of Garcia Marquez; on the other hand intertextual relations are recognizable between "El general en su laberinto " and the author's early novel "El coronel no tiene quien le escriba ". Thus, "El general en su laberinto " allows to draw conclusions with respect to the author's position in present-day debates on aesthetical and historiographical theories as well as to his political standpoint. Ambivalent and tragical aspects dominate in the description of the liberator's life and deeds, nonetheless, this glq human touch grq far from diminishing his importance in Latin American history even contributes in underscoring it. The symbolic infrastructure of the biographical novel correlates with the political impact which the author conveys to the protagonist. Subtle allusions to the Cuban president Fidel Castro as well as reiterated references to the beginning of the now fatal financial indebtedness of Latin America to foreign states suggest that with this fictional biography the author also pursues political aims.
Book Synopsis Gabriel García Márquez by : George R. McMurray
Download or read book Gabriel García Márquez written by George R. McMurray and published by Fredericton, N.B. : York Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Living to Tell the Tale by : Gabriel García Márquez
Download or read book Living to Tell the Tale written by Gabriel García Márquez and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2004-10-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No writer of his time exerted the magical appeal of Gabriel García Márquez. In this long-awaited autobiography, the great Nobel laureate tells the story of his life from his birth in1927 to the moment in the 1950s when he proposed to his wife. The result is as spectacular as his finest fiction. Here is García Márquez’s shimmering evocation of his childhood home of Aracataca, the basis of the fictional Macondo. Here are the members of his ebulliently eccentric family. Here are the forces that turned him into a writer. Warm, revealing, abounding in images so vivid that we seem to be remembering them ourselves, Living to Tell the Tale is a work of enchantment.
Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Gabriel García Márquez by : Gene H. Bell-Villada
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Gabriel García Márquez written by Gene H. Bell-Villada and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 665 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Handbook offers a comprehensive examination of Gabriel García Márquez's life, oeuvre, and legacy, the first such work since his death in 2014. It incorporates ongoing critical approaches such as feminism, ecocriticism, Marxism, and ethnic studies, while elucidating key aspects of his work, such as his Caribbean-Colombian background; his use of magical realism, myth, and folklore; and his left-wing political views. Thirty-two wide-ranging chapters coverthe bulk of the author's writings, giving special attention to the global influence of García Márquez.
