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.
Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982 for his masterpiece One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez had already earned tremendous respect and popularity in the years leading up to that honor, and remains, to date, an active and prolific writer. Readers are introduced to Garcia Marquez with a vivid account of his fascinating life; from his friendships with poets and presidents, to his distinguished career as a journalist, novelist, and chronicler of the quintessential Latin American experience.
Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Added by: maroula_7 | Karma: 70.43 | Fiction literature | 28 January 2009
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From the Nobel Prize-winning author of One Hundred Years of Solitude comes a masterly evocation of an unrequited passion so strong that it binds three people's lives together for more than fifty years. In the story of Florentino Ariza, who waits more than half a century to declare his undying love to the beautiful Fermina Daza, whom he lost to Dr. Juvenal Urbino so many years before, Garcia Marquez has created a vividly absorbing fictional world, as lush and dazzling as a dream and as real and immediate as our own deepest longings.
