Garcia Marquez And Latin America

Author : Gabriel García Márquez
Publisher : Blackstone Publishing
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9798200952090

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One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez Pdf

One of the twentieth century’s enduring works, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a widely beloved and acclaimed novel known throughout the world and the ultimate achievement in a Nobel Prize–winning career. The novel tells the story of the rise and fall of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family. Rich and brilliant, it is a chronicle of life, death, and the tragicomedy of humankind. In the beautiful, ridiculous, and tawdry story of the Buendía family, one sees all of humanity, just as in the history, myths, growth, and decay of Macondo, one sees all of Latin America. Love and lust, war and revolution, riches and poverty, youth and senility, the variety of life, the endlessness of death, the search for peace and truth—these universal themes dominate the novel. Alternately reverential and comical, One Hundred Years of Solitude weaves the political, personal, and spiritual to bring a new consciousness to storytelling. Translated into dozens of languages, this stunning work is no less than an account of the history of the human race.

Author : Alok Bhalla
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Latin America
ISBN : UCSC:32106008519198

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Garcia Marquez and Latin America by Alok Bhalla Pdf

Author : Dorothhee Koch
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 11 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2008-05-29
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9783638055192

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Gabriel Garcia Márquez' "One Hundred Years of Solitude" as critique on latin americans? by Dorothhee Koch Pdf

Essay from the year 2007 in the subject American Studies - Miscellaneous, grade: A-, Bread Loaf School of English, Middlebury College (Bread Loaf School of English), course: 20th Century Latin American History, language: English, abstract: Garcia Marquez’ novel One Hundred Years of Solitude records the rise and fall of a fictional town called Macondo. Although this town is invented by the author, its foundation, its development and its fall show social and political realities we know from Latin America’s past and Colombia’s history in particular. The Buendìa family, who founded the town and lives in it for six generations throughout the novel, mirrors Colombian reality post Spanish imperialism e.g. the Civil War, the take over of the United Fruit Company of Boston, the massacre of Cienaga etc. All these events can be found in the book and can be related to Latin American history. Since the novel is amazingly rich and breaks narrative linearity through flashbacks and flashforwards, the similarities and the obvious connection between reality and fiction is used as a framework for this paper and lead to the question of whether there is a political message in the book, or not. Using the history of Latin America and the events in the book referring to it, I will prove that there is more that just a critique on the current behaviour of Latin Americans. The use of magical realism concerning time shows that history is circular, it repeats itself if you do not learn through your experiences, if you refuse to progress but stick to the progress of others. This is the mistake, the Buendias commit and this mistake should be conferred to Latin America in order to finally “combat a plague of amnesia.” (Conniff, 167)

Author : Raymond L. Williams
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781855661912

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A Companion to Gabriel García Márquez by Raymond L. Williams Pdf

This book offers discussion and analysis of the subtle writing of Nobel Laureate Gabriel García Márquez - a traditionalist who draws from classic Western texts, a Modernist committed to modernizing the conservative literary tradition in Colombia and Latin America, an internationally recognized major writer of the 1960s Boom, the key figure in popularizing what has been called "magic realism" and, finally, a Modernist who has occasionally engaged in some of the strategies of the postmodern. The author demonstrates that García Márquez is above all a committed and highly accomplished Modernist fiction writer who has successfully synthesized his political vision in his writing and absorbed a vast array of cultural and literary traditions. Drawing on García Márquez's interviews with Williams and others over the years, the book also explores the importance of the non-literary, the presence of oral tradition and the visual arts, thus providing a more complete insight into García Márquez's strategies as a Modernist with heterogeneous aesthetic interests, as well as an understanding of his social and political preoccupations. RAYMOND LESLIE WILLIAMS is Professor of Latin American Literature at the University of California, Riverside.

Author : Gerald Martin
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307472861

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Gabriel García Márquez by Gerald Martin Pdf

In this exhaustive and enlightening biography—nearly two decades in the making—Gerald Martin dexterously traces the life and times of one of the twentieth century’s greatest literary titans, Nobel Prize-winner Gabriel García Márquez. Martin chronicles the particulars of an extraordinary life, from his upbringing in backwater Colombia and early journalism career, to the publication of One Hundred Years of Solitude at age forty, and the wealth and fame that followed. Based on interviews with more than three hundred of Garcia Marquez’s closest friends, family members, fellow authors, and detractors—as well as the many hours Martin spent with ‘Gabo’ himself—the result is a revelation of both the writer and the man. It is as gripping as any of Gabriel García Márquez’s powerful journalism, as enthralling as any of his acclaimed and beloved fiction.

Author : Álvaro Santana-Acuña
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231545433

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Ascent to Glory by Álvaro Santana-Acuña Pdf

Gabriel García Márquez’s novel One Hundred Years of Solitude seemed destined for obscurity upon its publication in 1967. The little-known author, small publisher, magical style, and setting in a remote Caribbean village were hardly the usual ingredients for success in the literary marketplace. Yet today it ranks among the best-selling books of all time. Translated into dozens of languages, it continues to enter the lives of new readers around the world. How did One Hundred Years of Solitude achieve this unlikely success? And what does its trajectory tell us about how a work of art becomes a classic? Ascent to Glory is a groundbreaking study of One Hundred Years of Solitude, from the moment García Márquez first had the idea for the novel to its global consecration. Using new documents from the author’s archives, Álvaro Santana-Acuña shows how García Márquez wrote the novel, going beyond the many legends that surround it. He unveils the literary ideas and networks that made possible the book’s creation and initial success. Santana-Acuña then follows this novel’s path in more than seventy countries on five continents and explains how thousands of people and organizations have helped it to become a global classic. Shedding new light on the novel’s imagination, production, and reception, Ascent to Glory is an eye-opening book for cultural sociologists and literary historians as well as for fans of García Márquez and One Hundred Years of Solitude.

Author : Jorge R. Rogachevesky,Ivan Jaksic
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Latin American literature
ISBN : UOM:39015005099976

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Politics and the Novel in Latin America by Jorge R. Rogachevesky,Ivan Jaksic Pdf

Author : Gabriel García Márquez
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101911167

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Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel García Márquez Pdf

AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN eBOOK! A New York Times Notable Book On the eve of his ninetieth birthday a bachelor decides to give himself a wild night of love with a virgin. As is his habit–he has purchased hundreds of women–he asks a madam for her assistance. The fourteen-year-old girl who is procured for him is enchanting, but exhausted as she is from caring for siblings and her job sewing buttons, she can do little but sleep. Yet with this sleeping beauty at his side, it is he who awakens to a romance he has never known. Tender, knowing, and slyly comic, Memories of My Melancholy Whores is an exquisite addition to the master’s work.

Author : Britannica Educational Publishing
Publisher : Britannica Educational Publishing
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781615302291

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The Literature of Spain and Latin America by Britannica Educational Publishing Pdf

From the whimsical idealism of Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quixote to the magical realism of Gabriel García Márquez’s 100 Years of Solitude, Spanish-language literature has substantially enriched the global literary canon. This volume examines the vibrant prose and dynamic range of both Spanish and Latin American authors, whose narratives are informed as much by their imaginations as the turbulent histories of these native lands. Influenced by a plethora of diverse cultures, these tales truly tell a global story.

Author : Gabriel García Márquez
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101911129

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The General in His Labyrinth by Gabriel García Márquez Pdf

AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN eBOOK! General Simon Bolivar, “the Liberator” of five South American countries, takes a last melancholy journey down the Magdalena River, revisiting cities along its shores, and reliving the triumphs, passions, and betrayals of his life. Infinitely charming, prodigiously successful in love, war and politics, he still dances with such enthusiasm and skill that his witnesses cannot believe he is ill. Aflame with memories of the power that he commanded and the dream of continental unity that eluded him, he is a moving exemplar of how much can be won—and lost—in a life.

Author : Gabriel García Márquez
Publisher : Blackstone Publishing
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9798200952212

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The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel García Márquez Pdf

One of Gabriel García Márquez’s most intricate and ambitious works, The Autumn of the Patriarch is a brilliant tale of a Caribbean tyrant and the corruption of power. From charity to deceit, benevolence to violence, fear of God to extreme cruelty, the dictator of The Autumn of the Patriarch embodies the best and the worst of human nature. Gabriel García Márquez, the renowned master of magical realism, vividly portrays the dying tyrant caught in the prison of his own dictatorship. Employing an innovative, dreamlike style, and overflowing with symbolic descriptions, the novel transports the listener to a world that is at once fanciful and real.

Author : Juan E. De Castro
Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780826522603

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Writing Revolution in Latin America by Juan E. De Castro Pdf

In the politically volatile period from the 1960s through the end of the twentieth century, Latin American authors were in direct dialogue with the violent realities of their time and place. Writing Revolution in Latin America is a chronological study of the way revolution and revolutionary thinking is depicted in the fiction composed from the eye of the storm. From Mexico to Chile, the gradual ideological evolution from a revolutionary to a neoliberal mainstream was a consequence of, on the one hand, the political hardening of the Cuban Revolution beginning in the late 1960s, and, on the other, the repression, dictatorships, and economic crises of the 1970s and beyond. Not only was socialist revolution far from the utopia many believed, but the notion that guerrilla uprisings would lead to an easy socialism proved to be unfounded. Similarly, the repressive Pinochet dictatorship in Chile led to unfathomable tragedy and social mutation. This double-edged phenomenon of revolutionary disillusionment became highly personal for Latin American authors inside and outside Castro's and Pinochet's dominion. Revolution was more than a foreign affair, it was the stuff of everyday life and, therefore, of fiction. Juan De Castro's expansive study begins ahead of the century with José Martí in Cuba and continues through the likes of Mario Vargas Llosa in Peru, Gabriel García Márquez in Colombia, and Roberto Bolaño in Mexico (by way of Chile). The various, often contradictory ways the authors convey this precarious historical moment speaks in equal measure to the social circumstances into which these authors were thrust and to the fundamental differences in the ways they themselves witnessed history.

Author : Michael Wood
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1990-05-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521316928

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Gabriel García Márquez: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Michael Wood Pdf

The author places the landmark novel into the context of modern Colombia's violent history, exploring the complex vision of Gabriel García Márquez.

Author : Susan Muaddi Darraj
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Authors, Colombian
ISBN : 9781438106793

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez by Susan Muaddi Darraj Pdf

These riveting personalities each achieved excellence, but even greater than their individual accomplishments is the positive Hispanic image they collectively represent to the world. Photographs, illustrations, and lively text tell the stories ot these fascinating historical figures.

Author : Gabriel García Márquez
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593310854

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Love in the Time of Cholera (Illustrated Edition) by Gabriel García Márquez Pdf

A beautifully packaged edition of one of García Márquez's most beloved novels, with never-before-seen color illustrations by the Chilean artist Luisa Rivera and an interior design created by the author's son, Gonzalo García Barcha. In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career he whiles away the years in 622 affairs—yet he reserves his heart for Fermina. Her husband dies at last, and Florentino purposefully attends the funeral. Fifty years, nine months, and four days after he first declared his love for Fermina, he will do so again.