The Colombian novelist mixed fiction and fact to capture the outsize reality of Latin America. Even if you’ve never watched a priest levitate, a carpet fly or a drop of blood climb over curbs, there’s something for you.
As someone who loves teaching the work of Gabriel García Márquez in literature courses (with a particular warm spot for Crónica de una muerte anunciada Chronicle of a Death Foretold) I can't wait to read Crónica de una muerte inconclusa [Chronicle of an unfinished death] by Nadia Celis Salgado (Bowdoin College). The “chronicle,” published by Lumen…
The fantastic stories he told emerged from the cellar of his childhood resurrected and polished till they exuded the patina of his mind. Gabriel García Márquez often said that what Westerners call
Weeks before Marquez s death at 87, the Bogota daily wrote how the legendary novelist was followed right until the end by the ghosts of his strongest character: his mother.
What follows is a (more or less) complete bibliography of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Some of his works have been noded already, but many have not. I have p.