Gabriel Garcia Marquez (b. 1927) is a sophisticated literary
artist with broad popularity. His masterpiece, "One Hundred Years
of Solitude," has sold tens of millions of copies worldwide. In
1982, he received the Nobel Prize for Literature.
"Conversations with Gabriel Garcia Marquez" starts with the
years of his early phenomenal success and continues through his
most recent, turn-of-the-century exchanges. He speaks of his
impoverished childhood, his life as an indifferent student, his
apprenticeship as a journalist, the inspiration that led to the
writing of his most renowned novel, the difficulties brought by
fame, and his leftist opinions. Works such as "The Autumn of the
Patriarch," "Love in the Time of Cholera," "The General in His
Labyrinth," and "News of a Kidnapping" are discussed in detail.
When interviewed by Hispanic journalists, Garcia Marquez chats
spontaneously and frankly about all sorts of topics, including
himself. Those conversations, translated into English for the first
time, offer a fascinating glimpse of the Colombian genius at his
most down-to-earth, informal, and relaxed. Taken together with
seminal pieces from the "Atlantic Monthly," the "New York Times
Book Review," and other English-language periodicals,
"Conversations with Gabriel Garcia Marquez" offers a nuanced,
multi-faceted view of one of contemporary literature's greatest
masters.
Gene H. Bell-Villada of Williamstown, Massachusetts, is chair of
the Department of Romance Languages at Williams College and the
author of National Book Critics Circle Award finalist "Art for
Art's Sake & Literary Life: How Politics & Markets Helped
Shape the Ideology and Culture of Aestheticism, 1790-1990," and
"Overseas American: Growing Up Gringo in the Tropics" (University
Press of Mississippi).
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