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At the age of forty-six General Simon Bolivar, who drove the Spanish from his lands and became the Liberator of South America, takes himself into exile. He makes a final journey down the Magdalene River, revisiting the cities along its shores, reliving the triumphs, passions and betrayals of his youth. Consumed by the memories of what he has done and what he failed to do, Bolivar hopes to see a way out of the labyrinth in which he has lived all his life...'Breathtaking. A superb fictional recreation of Bolivar's last month' - "Observer". ... Read more

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The General in his Labyrinth
The General in his Labyrinth
The General in his Labyrinth was written by Gabriel García Márquez and published by Alfred A. Knopf in New York in 1990. It is the middle of the eighteen hundreds and starts with a man who we know as General Simón Bolívar.He is an old time war hero and is stuck in his glory days when the people of South America believed in his heroism. Everyday he wakes up and tells his most loyal servant that today will be the day when he will finally leave Santa Fe de Bogotá. He has not done so for many years. There have been many attempts on his life; assassins, poisons, and mobs have attempted to take the Generals life but none succeed. The General has been in the front of battles leading the way to the enemy and has never attained even a scratch.Many felt he was invincible.
He finally decides to leave and resigns his presidency.He takes a trip down Magdalena River and remembers all the things that have happened to him when he came here. He also remembers the only goal he has left. He wishes to reunite the "kingdom" he once had. This novel fallows his adventures down the river and through his denial of his own inevitable death and exile, unsure witch fate is worse.
I was not particularly impressed with this book.I enjoy books that are based around an event that has actually occurred but is twisted and changed to be very unrealistic and entertaining.This book, while being modified and yet, still realistic, was too close to reality for my enjoyment. It followed the actual timeline of the life of General Simón Bolívar but did not contain many well written outstanding events in my opinion.To me it seemed that this novel was written, not for the fiction audience, but for the audience of those who wish to know more about General Simón Bolívar. A hero can be great once and lose twice as much as he was great. The General once had life and fame but lost all except his love. One step forward and two steps back
I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys history in a fashion that is not its raw core but only one view of this many sided event.
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Fantastic!
Only an author as talented as Gabriel Garcia Marques is able to write a novel which its name tells you the end and you still can't stop reading it. Fantastic!

Binding is Terrible for this version
Don't be fooled by a cute cover and cheap price. The binding for this edition of the book is terrible. I have gone through three books (and I take good care) because all the pages have fallen out just from bending the book back and forth.

I love Garcia Marquez and he is somebody you will want to read again. But this paperback edition won't allow it - the book will break first!!!

Thanks.

En otras palabras, este edicion del libro es de calidad terrible. Ya han roto tres copias del mismo libro en un mes de estudiarlo, que mucho que trato no romperlo.

Escoga otra edicion si quiere comprar este novela fantastica.

El fin revelado no afecta
Siempre he creído que GM es un genio, su increible uso de la narrativa y la forma en que da formato al absurdo hasta convertirlo en creible es unica de su realismo magico, el libro esta lleno de historia y folclor a pesar de que desde el momento que comenzamos a leerlo tenemos ya el desenlace, la descriptiva de los hechos hace que el libro tome vida y por momentos nos olvidamos de la conclusion.

INCREIBLE
Es increible conocer el final de un libro y aun así estar tan intrigado por como sucede o como se llega al final del libro. García Marquez titula claramente su obra Crónica de una Muerte Anunciada porque desde el primer par de hojas ya sabemos que Santiago Nassar va a ser asesinado. Increiblemente las dudas de como? porque? donde? y quien? empiezan a resolverse a lo largo de las páginas. Al final, armamos el rompecabezas, y todo parece caer en su lugar. Definitivamente es una de las mejores obras descriptivas de lengua española, y definitivamente una historia que se debe leer y que se va a recordar.

Worth the time and price
I might as well write this in English.Since this site is viewed mainly by english speaking readers.

This book is not surprisingly a Very good work by G G Marquez.It is well crafted throughout, and does not bore easily like other books in Spanish (there are lots).It is so well written that you will remember it 5 and 10 years from the first chance.

The othern reviews tell very well what happens in the story.It tells our Latin American cutlure very well, from its names, sounds and traditions/folklore.I am going to purchase 'Amor en tiempos de colera', which is sadi to be a book created assort of sequel to this one.

Santiago Nasar , and the Vicaria family, along with the rest of the inhabitants of the Colombian town in which the book takes place will startle you as one of the best cronicles written, at 105 pages only. ... Read more

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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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“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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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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Their distant, nostalgic memories of home, their sense of anonymity in a foreign land, the terrifying pang of vulnerability they feel as they step over the threshold into an alien world...These pilgrims - the ageing prostitute preparing for death by teaching her dog to weep at her grave, the panicked husband scared for the life of his injured wife, the old man who allows his mind to wander on a long-haul flight from Paris - experience with all Marquez's humour, warmth and colour, what it is to be a Latin American adrift in Europe or, indeed, any outsider living far from home. ... Read more

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dont get me wrong ... Gabo is my #1 author
i love Gabo ... he is my favorite author ... i loved 100 hundred years of solitude, love in the time of cholera, of love & other demons , & all the other books ... but this one is the worst ever ... i tried to read it several times .. over & over & over ... but it was nothing but a bad bad book ...

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Clarividente
Un texto muy simple, no muy revasado, donde se puede encontrar las ideas de uno de los mas importante escritores de todo Latino America en el siglo viente y viente uno.El libro es una cuenta descubierto de su vida ymuy facil para leer porque solamente es platica entre Gabo y Plinio. Me puse de impression que son amigos desde hace mucho tiempo y eso se puede traducir para el lector por que tambien se siente muy agusto como si esta sentado con ellos. Gabo habla sobre varios partes de su vida, cresiendo y atendando la universidad y trabajando con el periodico y finalmente cuando le pega la fama con sus libros como "Cien Anos de Solitud" etc. Gabriel Marquez o Gabo se pone fllosofico sobre varios temas que el lector puede encontrar en sus libros y en la vida en general. Muy interesante especialmente para los lectores que tienen fiel con la literatura de Latino Aamerica ... Read more

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A band of adventurers find a town in the heart of the South American jungle. Their leader is Jose Arcadio Buendia, the town is called Macondo. The occasion marks the beginning: of the world, of a great family, and of a century of extraordinary events. ... Read more

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Casebooks in Criticism (General Editor: William L. Andrews) offer analytical and interpretive frameworks for understanding key texts in world literature and film. Each casebook reprints documents relating to a work's historical context and reception, presents the best critical studies, and, when possible, features an interview with the author. Accessible and informative to scholars, students, and nonspecialist readers alike, the books in this series provide a wide range of critical and informative commentaries on major texts. Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude is arguably the most important novel in twentieth-century Latin American literature. This Casebook features ten critical articles on Garcia Marquez's great work. Carefully selected from the most important work on the novel over the past three decades, they include pieces by Carlos Fuentes, Iris Zavala, James Higgins, Jean Franco, Michael Wood, and Gene H. Bell-Villada. Among the intriguing aspects of the work discussed are its mythic dimension, its "magical" side, its representations of women, its relationship with past chronicles of exploration and discovery, its portrayals of Western power and imperialism, its astounding diffusion throughout the globe and the media, and its simple truth-telling, its fidelity to the tangled history of Latin America. The book incorporates several theoretical approaches--historical, feminist, postcolonial; the first English translation of Fuentes's renowned, oft-cited, eight page meditation on the work; a general introduction; and a 1982 interview with Garcia Marquez. ... Read more

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This book is a treasure.
This is my favorite book.I have read it so many times I have lost the count, and each time I feel and live it and I can't put it down.It's the brightest jewel in the Latin American literature. This is a jealous book, it's not for the people who "act" as if they were reading, while thinking of something else.It demands your full attention.If you have trouble following a complex story line, I recomend you to read it while keeping a pencil and paper handy so you can draw the Buendia's family tree.It will help you to follow the story.That's what I told my mom to do and it worked out right. If you are feeling adventurous and want to read a story full of life, passion, death, and love, this is the book for you.I have never ever found another book so human inspite of being magical.I invite you to read it, if you really follow this book, you won't regret the hours you spent immersed in it.

Helpful, but like so many anthologies, uneven
This book cannot fail to be of use to anyone trying to gain a fuller understanding of García Márquez's ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE.Although not useless to advanced readers, the collection is explicitly targeted at readers approaching the text for the first time.I imagine they had this in mind as a college text to accompany the novel.

Anthologies are almost always uneven, with some essays justifying the cost of the book, and others that seem to either muddy the water or just waste one's time.This collection is no exception.Several of the essays are superb.In general, as the editor acknowledges in the Introduction, the clearest, most helpful essays are those by scholars working in Great Britain.The least helpful are those scholars--either American or Latin American--in the grips of literary theory.One of the essays is so densely written that nearly the entire piece consists of buzz words from cultural studies and comparative literature.I can't imagine many college level readers having the background to penetrate such an essay, while many advanced scholars will recognize that such an essay covers up lack of content by an excess of lingo.

Nonetheless, by picking and choosing, one will gain a great deal of help in reading García Márquez's great novel.There is a good deal of helpful biographical and historical information, as well as a number of excellent critical pieces analyzing various aspects of the book.I found the essays in the first two thirds of the book to be more helpful than those in the last third, with some exceptions in each section.

And yes, the font is small, but I didn't have the trouble reading the book that the first reviewer had.

Excellent material
Excellent material but the print is too small to read without strain even with glasses. ... 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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This is the first comprehensive publication devoted to Tomás Sánchez, one of the most important and celebrated living Cuban artists. Sánchez is a commanding realist, although his landscapes are imagined or dreamed. His work is meticulous in its breath-taking detail, but the objective of the artist is not so much the recreation of reality as it is the display of a magical realism. In this respect, Sánchez is closer perhaps to Gabriel García Márquez than to the North American model of hyperrealism. This volume follows the development of Sánchez's work chronologically from his early expressionist paintings to his most recent landscapes.
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