Reign García Márquez over magical-realism
‘Gabo’one of the most significant authors of the 20th century who got the 1972 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature. Very strikingly he left law school to pursued a self-directed education for a career in journalism. From early on, he showed no inhibitions in his criticism of Colombian and foreign politics.
He penned a "whimsical" column under the name of "Septimus" to a local paper El Heraldo . García Márquez much praised for his tenure at El Heraldo, The other day he said, "I'd write a piece and they'd pay me three pesos for it, and maybe an editorial for another three." He became an active member of the informal group of writers and journalists known as the Barranquilla Group, this association ignited a spark in to him for his literary career. He worked with as Ramon Vinyes, They read García Márquez depicted as an Old Catalan with a bookstore in One Hundred Years of Solitude. García Márquez was an admirer of Faulkner's narrative techniques, historical themes and use of rural locations which influenced him as a writer. The soil of Barranquilla offered García Márquez a unique perspective on Caribbean culture. Year 1954 to 1955, García Márquez stayed in Bogotá and religiously wrote for Bogotá's El Espectador. He was a regular film critic which drove his interest in film. In 1957 to 1958 he was in Venezuela writing for a El Momento. The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor editorial for El Espectador was a series of fourteen news articles. Where he revealed the hidden story, how a Colombian Navy vessel's shipwreck "occurred. How the boat contained a badly stowed cargo of contraband goods which broke loose on the deck." García Márquez compiled this story through interviews with a young sailor who survived the shipwreck. The articles resulted in public controversy. García Márquez became foreign correspondent for El Espectador went to Europe. Leaf Storm is his first and most favorite novel. It took seven years to get a publisher for this novel. As authoritarian theory goes this novel is based on his own experience. The story of an old colonel similar to García Márquez's own grandfather. Who tries to give a proper Christian burial to an unpopular French doctor; the colonel is supported only by his daughter and grandson. The novella explores the child's first experience with death by following his stream of consciousness. The book also reveals the perspective of Isabel, the Colonel's daughter, which provides a feminine point of view.
Gracia always wanted to write about grandparents’ house as he has been brought up there. He sold his car and started writing a novel. It was’ One Hundred Years of Solitude.’ This novel became famous and he carved his yardstick in literature. He got the Nobel Prize for it, William Kennedy quoted “the first piece of literature since the Book of Genesis that should be required reading for the entire human race," Editors and reporters from all over the world wrote many reviews and articles. García Márquez expressed his view as "Most critics don't realize that a novel like One Hundred Years of Solitude is a bit of a joke, full of signals to close friends; and so, with some pre-ordained right to pontificate they take on the responsibility of decoding the book and risk making terrible fools of themselves."
The flight of Venezuelan dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez inspired García Márquez to write ‘Autumn of the Patriarch’. The novel is a "poem on the solitude of power" as it follows the life of an eternal dictator known as the General. The development of novel happen through a series of anecdotes related to the life of the General, which do not appear in chronological order. Although the exact location of the story is not pin-pointed in the novel, the imaginary country is situated somewhere in the Caribbean.
Chronicle of a Death Foretold is novel published 1981, The novel revolves around Santiago Nasar's murder. The narrator acts as a detective, uncovering the events of the murder second by second. Literary critic Ruben Pelayo gave his remark that the story "unfolds in an inverted fashion. Instead of moving forward... the plot moves backwards." In the first chapter, the narrator tells the reader exactly who killed Santiago Nasar and the rest of the book is left to unfold why.This novel was adapted into a film by Italian director Francesco Rosi in 1987.
He tried his hand in writing a love story in ‘Love in the Time of Cholera’ (El amor en los tiempos del cólera) which is published in 1985. It is a non-traditional love story where "lovers find love in their 'golden years'— during their seventies, when death is all around them"
In 1996 he got published his novel ’News of a Kidnapping’. The non-fiction book that explores a series of related kidnappings and Narco-terrorist actions in early 1990s in Colombia by the Medellín Cartel, a drug cartel founded and operated by Pablo Escobar. The text resonate the kidnapping, imprisonment, and eventual release of prominent figures in Colombia politicians and members of the press et al.
García Márquez published his autobiography in 2003 Vivir para contarla, Living to Tell the Tale, October 2004 brought the publication of a novel, Memories of My Melancholy Whores (Memoria de mis putas tristes), a love story that follows the romance of a 90-year-old man and a pubescent concubine. Memories of My Melancholy Whores caused controversy in Iran.
García Márquez's writing style is like instances of humour, he always changed his style of writing and narration. In an interview with Marlise Simons, García Márquez noted: In every book I try to make a different path [...]. One doesn't choose the style. You can investigate and try to discover what the best style would be for a theme. But the style is determined by the subject, by the mood of the times. If you try to use something that is not suitable, it just won't work. Then the critics build theories around that and they see things I hadn't seen. I only respond to our way of life, the life of the Caribbean.
Garcia always stick to reality and used the imagination and magic. He observed reality, he narrated it as well but while developing characters and their environment he used the touch of magic. This makes his style of writing different. Today he is considered to be a writer of ‘magical-realism’ a very distinct genre which has impressed Latin American cinema and literature at large. We even find the reflections of this ‘magical-realism’ in Latin popular music.
He is a man who never celebrated his success. He always kept low profile and lived his life with a down-to-earth gesture. friend Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza quoted his work, "The way you treat reality in your books ... has been called magical realism. I have the feeling your European readers are usually aware of the magic of your stories but fail to see the reality behind it ... ." "This is surely because their rationalism prevents them seeing that reality isn't limited to the price of tomatoes and eggs."
‘Gabo’one of the most significant authors of the 20th century who got the 1972 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature. Very strikingly he left law school to pursued a self-directed education for a career in journalism. From early on, he showed no inhibitions in his criticism of Colombian and foreign politics.
He penned a "whimsical" column under the name of "Septimus" to a local paper El Heraldo . García Márquez much praised for his tenure at El Heraldo, The other day he said, "I'd write a piece and they'd pay me three pesos for it, and maybe an editorial for another three." He became an active member of the informal group of writers and journalists known as the Barranquilla Group, this association ignited a spark in to him for his literary career. He worked with as Ramon Vinyes, They read García Márquez depicted as an Old Catalan with a bookstore in One Hundred Years of Solitude. García Márquez was an admirer of Faulkner's narrative techniques, historical themes and use of rural locations which influenced him as a writer. The soil of Barranquilla offered García Márquez a unique perspective on Caribbean culture. Year 1954 to 1955, García Márquez stayed in Bogotá and religiously wrote for Bogotá's El Espectador. He was a regular film critic which drove his interest in film. In 1957 to 1958 he was in Venezuela writing for a El Momento. The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor editorial for El Espectador was a series of fourteen news articles. Where he revealed the hidden story, how a Colombian Navy vessel's shipwreck "occurred. How the boat contained a badly stowed cargo of contraband goods which broke loose on the deck." García Márquez compiled this story through interviews with a young sailor who survived the shipwreck. The articles resulted in public controversy. García Márquez became foreign correspondent for El Espectador went to Europe. Leaf Storm is his first and most favorite novel. It took seven years to get a publisher for this novel. As authoritarian theory goes this novel is based on his own experience. The story of an old colonel similar to García Márquez's own grandfather. Who tries to give a proper Christian burial to an unpopular French doctor; the colonel is supported only by his daughter and grandson. The novella explores the child's first experience with death by following his stream of consciousness. The book also reveals the perspective of Isabel, the Colonel's daughter, which provides a feminine point of view.
Gracia always wanted to write about grandparents’ house as he has been brought up there. He sold his car and started writing a novel. It was’ One Hundred Years of Solitude.’ This novel became famous and he carved his yardstick in literature. He got the Nobel Prize for it, William Kennedy quoted “the first piece of literature since the Book of Genesis that should be required reading for the entire human race," Editors and reporters from all over the world wrote many reviews and articles. García Márquez expressed his view as "Most critics don't realize that a novel like One Hundred Years of Solitude is a bit of a joke, full of signals to close friends; and so, with some pre-ordained right to pontificate they take on the responsibility of decoding the book and risk making terrible fools of themselves."
The flight of Venezuelan dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez inspired García Márquez to write ‘Autumn of the Patriarch’. The novel is a "poem on the solitude of power" as it follows the life of an eternal dictator known as the General. The development of novel happen through a series of anecdotes related to the life of the General, which do not appear in chronological order. Although the exact location of the story is not pin-pointed in the novel, the imaginary country is situated somewhere in the Caribbean.
Chronicle of a Death Foretold is novel published 1981, The novel revolves around Santiago Nasar's murder. The narrator acts as a detective, uncovering the events of the murder second by second. Literary critic Ruben Pelayo gave his remark that the story "unfolds in an inverted fashion. Instead of moving forward... the plot moves backwards." In the first chapter, the narrator tells the reader exactly who killed Santiago Nasar and the rest of the book is left to unfold why.This novel was adapted into a film by Italian director Francesco Rosi in 1987.
He tried his hand in writing a love story in ‘Love in the Time of Cholera’ (El amor en los tiempos del cólera) which is published in 1985. It is a non-traditional love story where "lovers find love in their 'golden years'— during their seventies, when death is all around them"
In 1996 he got published his novel ’News of a Kidnapping’. The non-fiction book that explores a series of related kidnappings and Narco-terrorist actions in early 1990s in Colombia by the Medellín Cartel, a drug cartel founded and operated by Pablo Escobar. The text resonate the kidnapping, imprisonment, and eventual release of prominent figures in Colombia politicians and members of the press et al.
García Márquez published his autobiography in 2003 Vivir para contarla, Living to Tell the Tale, October 2004 brought the publication of a novel, Memories of My Melancholy Whores (Memoria de mis putas tristes), a love story that follows the romance of a 90-year-old man and a pubescent concubine. Memories of My Melancholy Whores caused controversy in Iran.
García Márquez's writing style is like instances of humour, he always changed his style of writing and narration. In an interview with Marlise Simons, García Márquez noted: In every book I try to make a different path [...]. One doesn't choose the style. You can investigate and try to discover what the best style would be for a theme. But the style is determined by the subject, by the mood of the times. If you try to use something that is not suitable, it just won't work. Then the critics build theories around that and they see things I hadn't seen. I only respond to our way of life, the life of the Caribbean.
Garcia always stick to reality and used the imagination and magic. He observed reality, he narrated it as well but while developing characters and their environment he used the touch of magic. This makes his style of writing different. Today he is considered to be a writer of ‘magical-realism’ a very distinct genre which has impressed Latin American cinema and literature at large. We even find the reflections of this ‘magical-realism’ in Latin popular music.
He is a man who never celebrated his success. He always kept low profile and lived his life with a down-to-earth gesture. friend Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza quoted his work, "The way you treat reality in your books ... has been called magical realism. I have the feeling your European readers are usually aware of the magic of your stories but fail to see the reality behind it ... ." "This is surely because their rationalism prevents them seeing that reality isn't limited to the price of tomatoes and eggs."
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