One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez - This saga spans three generations of the Buendia family begins with Jose, who founds a town in the heart of the South American jungle. The family is dominated by his passion for alchemy, but the world is changing, and succeeding generations are caught up in a political and social turmoil. This novel creates its own world, in which there is a Spanish galleon beached in the jungle, a flying carpet, and an iguana in a woman's womb. Read by Patrick Romer.
The work of Gabriel Garcia Marquez attracts the interest of cultural historians as well as literary critics as he brings Latin American culture closer to the rest of the world. Numerous works by the author are examined here, including One Hundred Years of Solitude and The Autumn of the Patriarch. This title, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, examines the major works of Gabriel Garcia Marquez through full-length critical essays by expert literary critics. In addition, this title features a short biography on Gabriel Garcia Marquez, a chronology of the author’s life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University.
Garcia Mann represents the genre of independent writers that follow in the classic vein of story telling. Barroom Brawls is an eclectic sampling from his latest collection of short stories and poems. The stories address the modern dilemmas of life occasionally tapping into surreal metaphysical absurdities, yet always nested in a familiar and contemporary setting.
Memories of My Melancholy Whores: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Added by: genuis_tariq | Karma: 16.17 | Fiction literature | 18 April 2010
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Memories of My Melancholy Whores: Gabriel Garcia MarquezGabriel García Márquez is best known for his novels One Hundred Yea of Solitude, and Love in the Time of Cholera.
This new short novel, Memories of My Melancholy Whores, told with elegance and grace, leaves the reader with a sense of something pure and moving and poignant, and very human. The latest novel by Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez has been banned in Iran - but only after censo noticed its title had been sanitised. The book, Memories of My Melancholy Whores, was published in Fai as Memories of My Melancholy Sweethearts.
Since its publication in 1967, "One Hundred Years of Solitude" has sold more than 20 million copies and earned its author, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, a host of awards, including the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. The novel has prompted comparisons to Miguel de Cervantes, William Faulkner, Virginia Woolf, and even the Bible. The new edition of this critical volume brings together full-length essays that explore the nuances of Marquez's captivating fictive world.