Conversations with Gabriel Garc? M疵quez (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781578067848)

Gabriel Garc? M疵quez (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 Garc? M疵quez 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, Garc? M疵quez 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 Garc? M疵quez offers a nuanced, multifaceted view of one of contemporary literature's greatest masters.

Author: Gene H. Bell-Villada
ISBN-10: 1578067847
ISBN-13: 9781578067848
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Language: English
Published: 11/09/2005
Pages: 200
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.73lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.06w x 0.68d

Review Citation(s):
Multicultural Review 10/01/2006 pg. 65