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En Buenos Aires, capital de la consagracion de Cien anos de soledad, Gabriel Garcia Marquez participo de manera invisible en un homenaje que duro tres dias sin olvidar que, pese a la ausencia corporal del autor, la literatura que este escribio oficio la magia de considerarlo presente. Presentes estuvieron el hermano de Gabo, Jaime Garcia, el historiador Felix Luna, escritores, periodistas, editores y libreros. Un publico atento y memorioso anadio la concurrencia de otras presencias invisibles: la fidelidad, la admiracion, el afecto. Este libro atestigua esa ceremonia inolvidable. Una celebracion del autor de Cien anos de soledad que incorpora ademas enfoques ineditos de su obra por parte de escritores, editores, familiares, amigos. ... Read more

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez nacio en 1927 en Aracataca, un pequeno pueblo del Caribe colombiano. La mayor parte de su obra se inscribe dentro del realismo magico Escribio La hojarasca y El coronel no tiene quien le escriba mientras trabajaba como periodista. Tras el triunfo de la Revolucion Cubana trabajo para la agencia de noticias Prensa Latina. Con Cien anos de Soledad se convirtio en eje del boom latinoamericano. La Real Academia Espanola destaco a esta novela como la segunda mas importante para la lengua, luego de El Quijote. Fue premio Nobel de Literatura en 1982...Esta es la historia, fascinante como sus textos, de uno de los escritores mas personales de la lengua castellana. ... Read more

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Libro de cuentos del premio nóbel colombiano Gabriel García Marquez, ilustrado por Carmen Solé Vendrell. ... Read more

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This volume of essays constitutes a critical reappraisal of a front-rank world author, Gabriel García Márquez, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1983. Apart from extending critical appreciation of his work to an English-reading public, its principal objective is to reflect the breadth and variety of critical approaches to literature applied to a single corpus of writing; here, the major novels (including Love in the Times of Cholera, 1986) and a selection of his short fiction are considered. The aim of this collection, given these dual objectives, is to extend knowledge of the work of García Márquez and introduce to both the general reader and to students of literature a plurality of current critical approaches to his rich variety of fictional techniques. The volume also includes a bibliography of criticism available in English and an English translation of the author's Stockholm Nobel acceptance address. ... Read more

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One Hundred Years of Solitude is perhaps the most important landmark of the so-called 'Boom' in contemporary Latin American fiction. Published in 1967, the novel was an instant success, running to hundreds of editions, winning four international prizes, and being translated into 27 languages. In 1982, its author received the Nobel Prize for Literature. Michael Wood places the novel in the context of modern Colombia's violent history, and helps the reader to explore the rich and complex vision of the world which Garcia Marquez presents in it. Close reference is made to the text itself (in English translation), and there is a guide to further reading. ... Read more

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“Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.” Thus begins Nobel Prize winner Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude, one of the twentieth century’s most lauded works of fiction. In Gabriel García Márquez, literary scholar Stephen M. Hart provides a succinct yet thorough look into García Márquez’s life and the political struggles of Latin America that have influenced his work, from Love in the Time of Cholera to Memories of My Melancholy Whores.

            By interviewing García Márquez’s family in Cuba, Hart was able to gain a unique perspective on his use of “creative false memory,” providing new insight into the magical realism that dominates García Márquez’s oeuvre. Using these interviews and his original research, Hart defines five ingredients that are critical to García Márquez’s work: magical realism, a shortened and broken portrayal of time, punchy one-liners, dark and absurd humor, and political allegory. These elements, as described by Hart, illuminate the extraordinary allure of García Márquez’s work and provide fascinating insight into his approach to writing. Hart also explores the divisions between García Márquez’s everyday life and his life as a writer, and the connection in his work between family history and national history.

Gabriel García Márquez presents an original portrait of this well-renowned writer and is a must-read for fans of his work as well as those interested in magical realism, Latin American fiction, and modern literature.

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A good glimpse of Chilean politics
Unlike in his novels, García Márquez uses a straight-forward journalistic tone to tell the story of Miguel Littin, exiled from his native Chile and brave enough to infiltrate his country in the mid 80's to film the consequences of the Pinochet dictatorship. The story has its tense moments and I recommend it for those interested in military dictatorships in Latin American. Of course, you should see Littin's film, too!

James Bond meets 20th Century Chile
First of all,I've read this book in the original Spanish version, I recommend you do the same.The book is pretty good, I read it in two days, could not put it down!

My first impression was a "spy" story of guy in exile infiltrating his own country to take out the actual truth to the World (I wonder if it ever really happened!!!)

This is an absolute thriller that reminded me somehow of the John LeCarre stories.Highly recommended to any student of modern South American political affairs and history.

Five stars.

Marquez vivdly captures the anguish of political exile.
The book chronicles the experiences of a Chilean political exile who returns to film a clandestine documentary during the years ot the Pinochet regime.Marquez masterfully captures the essence of Santiago during thedictatorship, and manages to depict the complex and difficult emotionspolitical exiles experience when faced with the return to a homeland thathas changed. Beautifully written.

Marquez vividly captures the anguish of political exile.
The book chronicles the experiences of a Chilean political exile who returns to film a clandestine documentary during the years of the Pinochet regime.Marquez masterfully captures the essence of Santiago during thedictatorship, and manages to depict the complex and difficult emotionspolitical exiles experience when faced with the return to a homeland thathas changed. Beautifully written. ... Read more

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These 12 stories are all linked by placing Latin Americans in European settings. The narrator is often the author himself - or the recorder of someone else's story, a reporter. Marquez is a Nobel Prize-winner. ... Read more

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Recounts the life of Simon Bolivar, a man inspired by a vision of a united South America free from Spanish domination. Bolivar, now old and nearing death, re-examines his life of war, passion, triumph and treachery which shaped the destiny of the continent. ... Read more

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This one of the most important novels written by this author which everyone must read. ... Read more

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Este libro se disfruta de principio a fin
El libro comienza de una manera muy original, por el final. El lector percibe esta idea pero resulta intrigante la manera en que el autor sigue desarrollando la historia atravez de las paginas. Es un libro muy divertidoy muestra la idiosincracia latinoamericana de una manera colorida

Un misterio que nunca podra ser revelado
Lo que siempre me intrigara de esta excelente novela es si fue o no fue Santiago Nasar "el autor" de Angela Vicario. Si uno lo analizapor la reaccion final de la victima, quizas no, pero si uno se atiene a laconfesion, aun mucho tiempo despues, de la supuesta doncella, quizas si.Como ven, cada lector tendra su propia opinion. Pobre Santiago Nasar!, yfelices nosotros que hemos podido leerla historia.

This book is interesting!!!
This book talks about a woman that gets married but in her honey moon her husband notices that she is not a virgin so he takes her back to her parents.They try to ask her who was the guy who made her lost hervirginity but she doesnt tell.They think that Santiago Nasar was the manso the girl's brothers try to kill him.The whole town knows about thisbut Santiago himself.The brothers are looking for him and when theyfinally do they run after him and kill him in front of his doorsteps. ... Read more

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On this personal work, García Márquez reveals some of the main keys in the creation of a text, as well as some elements of the complex process of the making of a story, of a fiction settled in words, and, at the same time, he shares some angles of his own creative work. In the words of the author himself:“ What matters most in this world to me is the creative process. What kind of mystery is such so that the simple desire of telling stories become a passion, so that a human being is willing to die for it; to starve, to freeze, anything, in order to be able to do one thing that cannot be seen nor touch and that, if you think of it, is good for nothing?” ... Read more

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El título puede no ser aplicable....

Como escritor amateur, me interesó explorar las ideas del maestro García Máarquez, tal vez erróneamente sobrentendidas en el título de esta volumen que reune las experiencias de un taller de cine impartido en Cuba. A través de estas experiencias, y específicamente en este volumen, vemos a un García Máarquez como un guía cierto entre los pensamientos lúdicos y fantásticos de los talleristas. Cualquier lección que se desprenda será subjetiva, y el lector tendrá que hacerse de ella por medio de diálogos largos (y a veces obvios, tal cual la comunicación humana) en el que las reglas del arte de contar un cuento no están claramente señaladas.
Sin embargo, el talento garcíamarqueziano salta a la vista casi propulsando al libro de un tedio largo. Sus comentarios guían y muestran la tarea de un escritor, en especial un guionista, revelando de tal manera las aristas de la creación literaria en sitios perfectamente identificables y contados (pocos) en el texto. Quizá, para aquellos que busquen una guía literaria, haya que referirse a "La Bendita Manía de Contar" con la esperanza de no arrimarse mucho a la sombra de un texto aparentemente instructivo cuyo único objetivo es de servir como referencia a futuros guionistas. ... Read more

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Libro de cuentos del premio nóbel colombiano Gabriel García Marquez, ilustrado por Carmen Solé Vendrell. ... Read more

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No es para jovenes!This book is not for children!
I checked this book out of the library to read for my Spanish class.I was very surprised to find that it is the story of a young man who is wrongly murdered as a thief.It is the very sad account of his mother and sister bringing flowers for his grave (beautifully writen in Spanish by Marquez)and to explain to the priest that he was actually a good man, not a thief.There is a picture of him lying in his own blood in the street - definitely NOT 2-3rd grade material!
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A different kind of Garcia Marquez
I'm an avid fan of Garcia Marquez; I've read almost all of his books and I had never heard of "Diatriba de amor contra un hombre sentado" until a couple of years ago.

In this book (the english translation is something like "complaint of love to a seated man"), Garcia Marquez writes a monologue of a woman, complaining to her husband about the lives they've lived and her frustration.I was amazed to see how well Garcia Marquez could write from a woman's perspective.

The book is very short and enjoyable.Unfortunately, the only copy of the book I've seen was in my university's library.I've tried for a long time to find this book on a bookstore, but have been unsuccessful.If you see this book and you're a fan of Garcia Marquez, don't hesitate to buy it!It's a really good short story and you'll enjoy it! ... Read more