Author: Mariana Solanet
Publisher: Orient Longman
Year: 2004
Language: English
Pages: 176
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8125026614
Description
Nobel prize-winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez is Latin America's most powerful literary symbol. In three decades, his novel One Hundred Years of solitude has sold over twenty million copies in more than thirty languages, to become the most famous and widely-read novel in Spanish since Cervantes Don Quixote.
Garcia Marquez for Beginners in introduces readers to the man and his magical realism, a style that expresses Latin American life and culture in many different layers of human perception. Garcia Marquez has pledged that everything he writes comes out of the real world, including gypsies on flying carpets, a woman ascending to heaven, body and soul, and a pries who levitates when he drinks chocolate.
This book pays an essential visit to the life and works of the intensely private Colombian writer who has been described as the world's most important living writer and is said to represent the voice and the spirit of Latin America.
Contents
Aracataca, 6 Marc 1927
Caribbean Culture
150 Years Before, in The Same Region
The Land of Childhood
The Precocious Child
A Family in Literature
The Revelation
Rome, Summer of 1955
Paris Was No Fiesta
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Buenos Aires Was a Fiesta
Time For Revenge
The Novel Song and Dance
The Newspaper That Never Was
The Film School
Recycling Stories
Literary Carpentry
The Best Job in The World
Bibliography
Index
The Authors