Books by Gabriel García Márquez
The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor, Clandestine in Chile, News of a Kidnapping, Living to Tell the Tale
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2010
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (books not included). Pages: 26. Chapters: Novels by Gabriel Garc a M rquez, Short story collections by Gabriel Garc a M rquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude, The General in His Labyrinth, Love in the Time of Cholera, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Strange Pilgrims, No One Writes to the Colonel, Memories of My Melancholy Whores, The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor, Leaf Storm, The Autumn of the Patriarch, In Evil Hour, Of Love and Other Demons, News of a Kidnapping, Clandestine in Chile, Living to Tell the Tale. Excerpt: One Hundred Years of Solitude (Spanish:, 1967), by Gabriel Garc a M rquez, is a novel which tells the multi-generational story of the Buend a Family, whose patriarch, Jos Arcadio Buend a, founds the town of Macondo, the metaphoric Colombia. The non-linear story is narrated via different time frames, a technique derived from the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges (as in The Garden of Forking Paths). The widely acclaimed story, considered to be the author's masterpiece, was first published in Spanish in 1967, and subsequently has been translated into thirty-seven languages, selling more than 20 million copies. The magical realist style and thematic substance of One Hundred Years of Solitude established it as an important, representative novel of the literary Latin American Boom of the 1960s and 1970s, that was stylistically influenced by Modernism (European and North American), and the Cuban Vanguardia (Vanguard) literary movement. The Colombian writer Gabriel Garc a M rquez was one of the four Latin American novelists first included in the literary Latin American Boom of the 1960s and 1970s; the other three writers were the Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa, the Argentine Julio Cort zar, and the Mexican Carlos Fuentes. One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) earned Garc a M rquez international fame as a novelist of the...
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