Gabriel Garcia Marquez(1928 - Living or Unknown) - magical realism writer
Gabriel Garcнa Mбrquez (born March 6, 1928) is a Colombian novelist, journalist, publisher, and political activist. He has lived mostly in Mexico and Europe; he currently spends most of his time in Mexico City.
While Garcнa Mбrquez is often considered the most famous of writers of magic realism, and while much of his writing has elements which are strongly associated with magic realism, Garcнa Mбrquez's writing is simply too diverse to be bound within categories.
Garcнa Mбrquez got his start as a reporter for the Colombian daily El Espectador, and later worked as a foreign correspondent in Rome, Paris, Barcelona, Caracas, and New York City.
His first major work was The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor (Relato de un nбufrago), which he wrote as a newspaper series in 1955. The book told the inglorious true story of a shipwreck that had been glorified by the government. This resulted in the beginning of his foreign correspondence, as it was unsafe for him to remain in Colombia. It was later published in 1970 and taken by many to have been a novel.
Several of his works have been classified as both fiction and non-fiction, notably Chronicle of a Death Foretold (Crуnica de una muerte anunciada) (1981), which tells the tale of revenge killing in his hometown of Aracataca, and Love in the Time of Cholera (El amor en los tiempos del cуlera) (1985), which tells the story of his grandparents' courtship. In addition, many of his works, including those two, take place in the "Garcнa Mбrquez universe", with characters, events, and locations appearing from book to book.
His most famous novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude (Cien aсos de soledad) (1967; English translation by Gregory Rabassa 1970), has sold more than ten million copies. It depicts the life of an isolated South American village where strange occurrences are portrayed as commonplace; it certainly has elements of the magically real, but it is much more than that, being also a philosophical reflection on the nature of time and isolation, and is also lacking the folkloric content which is a prerequisite of magic realism. Not everything strange and unexplained is folkloric; some of it is simply life.
Gabriel Garcнa Mбrquez was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1982.
In 2002, Garcнa Mбrquez published the memoir Vivir para contarla, the first volume of a projected three-volume autobiography. The book was a huge bestseller in the Spanish-speaking world. Edith Grossman's English translation, Living to Tell the Tale, was published in November 2003 and has proved to be another bestseller.
Garcнa Mбrquez is also noted for his enthusiasm for Fidel Castro and his sympathy for Latin American revolutionary groups.
Bibliography
1955 - Leaf Storm (La hojarasca)
1961 - No One Writes to the Colonel (El coronel no tiene quien le escriba)
1962 - Big Mama's Funeral (Los funerales de la Mamб Grande)
1962 - Eyes of a Blue Dog (Ojos de perro azul)
1962 - In Evil Hour (La mala hora)
1967 - One Hundred Years of Solitude (Cien aсos de soledad)
1975 - The Autumn of the Patriarch (El otoсo del patriarca)
1970 - The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor (Relato de un nбufrago)
1978 - The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Erйndira and her Heartless Grandmother (La increнble y triste historia de la cбndida Erйndira y de su abuela desalmada)
1981 - Chronicle of a Death Foretold (Crуnica de una muerte anunciada)
1985 - Love in the Time of Cholera (El amor en los tiempos del cуlera)
1989 - The General in his Labyrinth (El general en su laberinto)
1992 - Strange Pilgrims (Doce cuentos peregrinos)
1994 - Love and Other Demons (Del amor y otros demonios)
1996 - News of a Kidnapping (Noticia de un secuestro)
2002 - Living to Tell the Tale (Vivir para contarla)
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