Gabriel García Márquez: A Life

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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 31 de ago. de 2010 - 688 páginas

In this exhaustive and enlightening biography—nearly two decades in the making—Gerald Martin dexterously traces the life and times of one of the twentieth century’s greatest literary titans, Nobel Prize-winner Gabriel García Márquez.
 
Martin chronicles the particulars of an extraordinary life, from his upbringing in backwater Colombia and early journalism career, to the publication of One Hundred Years of Solitude at age forty, and the wealth and fame that followed. Based on interviews with more than three hundred of Garcia Marquez’s closest friends, family members, fellow authors, and detractors—as well as the many hours Martin spent with ‘Gabo’ himself—the result is a revelation of both the writer and the man. It is as gripping as any of Gabriel García Márquez’s powerful journalism, as enthralling as any of his acclaimed and beloved fiction.

 

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From Origins Obscure 18001899
3
Of Colonels and Lost Causes 18991927
13
The House at Aracataca 19271928
30
Holding His Grandfathers Hand 19291937
45
Barranquilla Sucre Zipaquirá 19381946
63
The University Student and the Bogotazo 19471948
93
An Apprentice Journalist
108
The Ace Reporter 19541955
165
The Autumn of
336
García Márquez Opts
361
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
390
García Márquezs Bolívar
445
Back to Macondo? News of a Historic Catastrophe
472
Memoirs
505
ImmortalityThe New Cervantes 20062007
537
Family Trees
553

La Bohème 19561957
207
Escape to Mexico 19611964
262
One Hundred Years of Solitude
286
Fame at Last 19661967
303
Celebrity and Politics
315
Eastern Europe During
578
Bibliography
609
Index
621
211
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Gerald Martin is Andrew W. Mellon Professor Emeritus of Modern Languages at the University of Pittsburgh and Senior Research Professor in Caribbean Studies at London Metropolitan University. For twenty-five years he was the only English-speaking member of the “Archives” Association of Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature in Paris, and he is a recent president of the International Institute of Ibero-American Literature in the United States. Among his publications are Journeys Through the Labyrinth: Latin American Fiction in the Twentieth Century, a translation and critical edition of Miguel Angel Asturias’s Men of Maize, and several contributions to the Cambridge History of Latin America. He lives in England.

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