GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2009) by Festival Internacional de Cine en Guadalajara, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Dates of Birth/Death: 1928-2014
Nationality: Colombian/Latin American
Literary Periods:
- Postwar Period, 1945-1999;
- Twentieth Century, 1900-1999;
- Twenty-First Century, 2000-
Literary Movements:
- Magic Realism, 20th Century
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REFERENCE & BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Critical Essay and Biography on the life and works of Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
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RESEARCH & CRITICISM
- MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window The Modern Language Association of America's database of journal articles, books, dissertations, working papers, proceedings, and bibliographies covering scholarship on literature, language and linguistics, folklore, literary theory and criticism, dramatic arts, printing, publishing, rhetoric, and composition, with coverage from 1926 to the present.
MLA International Bibliography is the definitive literary research database, indexing the most authoritative Marquez scholarship published in books and academic journals. MLA indexes and links to the entire JSTOR literary research collection as well as linking to many other full-text providers and the Colby College Libraries catalog. If you discover books or articles through MLA that are not available at Colby or through our lending partners, please request these items using your ILLiad Account.
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Gabriel García Márquez (2010) by
Gabriel García Márquez is Latin America's most internationally famous and successful author, and a winner of the Nobel Prize. His oeuvre of great modern novels includes One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera. His name has become closely associated with Magical Realism, a phenomenon that has been immensely influential in world literature. This Companion, first published in 2010, includes new and probing readings of all of García Márquez's works, by leading international specialists. His life in Colombia, the context of Latin American history and culture, key themes in his works and their critical reception are explored in detail. Written for students and readers of García Márquez, the Companion is accessible for non-Spanish speakers and features a chronology and a guide to further reading. This insightful and lively book will provide an invaluable framework for the further study and enjoyment of this major figure in world literature.
Call Number: Miller PQ8180.17.A73 Z6155 2010ISBN: 9780521867498
Critical Essays on Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1987) by Call Number: Miller PQ8180.17.A73 Z653 1987 c.2ISBN: 0816188343
The First Garcia Marquez (1992) by
This book studies in five chapters the continuous interaction of Garc_a M_rquez's journalism and fiction since the inception of his writing career. The author brings fresh insights to the literature and M_rquez by concentrating on two critical methods: textual, following the ideas of Gerard Genette, and transtextual, following the ideas of Mikhail Bakhtin of translinguistics. Contents: Garc_a M_rquez and Bigeneric Writing; Journalistic Peregrinations I; Journalistic Peregrinations II; Journalistic Peregrinations III; Garc_a M_rquez's The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor; Garc_a M_rquez's Series on La Sierpe.
Call Number: Miller PQ8180.17.A73 Z92913 1992ISBN: 0819185779
Into the mainstream; conversations with Latin-American writers (1967) by Call Number: Colby PQ7081 .H35ISBN: 0060117672
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One Hundred Years of Solitude (2003) by
One of the 20th century's enduring works, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a widely beloved and acclaimed novel known throughout the world, and the ultimate achievement in a Nobel Prize–winning career. The novel tells the story of the rise and fall of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family. It is a rich and brilliant chronicle of life and death, and the tragicomedy of humankind. In the noble, ridiculous, beautiful, and tawdry story of the Buendía family, one sees all of humanity, just as in the history, myths, growth, and decay of Macondo, one sees all of Latin America. Love and lust, war and revolution, riches and poverty, youth and senility -- the variety of life, the endlessness of death, the search for peace and truth -- these universal themes dominate the novel. Whether he is describing an affair of passion or the voracity of capitalism and the corruption of government, Gabriel García Márquez always writes with the simplicity, ease, and purity that are the mark of a master. Alternately reverential and comical, One Hundred Years of Solitude weaves the political, personal, and spiritual to bring a new consciousness to storytelling. Translated into dozens of languages, this stunning work is no less than an accounting of the history of the human race.
Call Number: PQ8180.17.A73 C513 2003ISBN: 0060531045
Love in the Time of Cholera (1988) by
Set in a country on the Caribbean coast of South America, this is a story about a woman and two men and their entwined lives. From the author of the legendary One Hundred Years of Solitude.
Call Number: PQ8180.17.A73 A813 1988ISBN: 0394561619
Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1983) by
"EXQUISITELY HARROWING . . . . Very strange and brilliantly conceived. . . . A sort of metaphysical murder mystery. . . . The murder will stand among the innumerable murders of modern literature as one of the best and most powerfully rendered." A mysterious and haunting tale of romance and murder, that begins with the marriage of a man and a woman in love. But when he inexplicably mistreats his beloved on the night of the wedding, he is in turn murdered by her brothers, and we are left with a strange sense of inevitability and passions gone terribly awry. From the Paperback edition.
Call Number: PQ8180.17.A73 C6813 2006ISBN: 9780394530741
Collected Novellas (2008) by
Renowned as a master of magical realism, Gabriel Garcia Marquez has long delighted readers around the world with his exquisitely crafted prose. Brimming with unforgettable characters and set in exotic locales, his fiction transports readers to a world that is at once fanciful, haunting, and real. Leaf Storm, Gabriel Garcia Marquez's first novella, introduces the mythical village of Macondo, a desolate town beset by torrents of rain, where a man must fulfill a promise made years earlier. No One Writes to the Colonel is a novella of life in a decaying tropical town in Colombia with an unforgettable central character. Chronicle of a Death Foretold is a dark and profound story of three people joined together in a fatal act of violence.
Call Number: PQ8180.17.A73 A27 1999ISBN: 006093266X
