Em Viagem pela Europa de Leste é a crónica testemunhal da viagem que o jovem Gabriel García Márquez realiza pelos países socialistas nos anos de 1950. Nas suas páginas o leitor encontrará, a par das observações dos companheiros de viagem, uma análise perspicaz e não isenta de ironia dos acontecimentos sociais e políticos de uma época. A sua viagem pelo enclave comunista inicia-se na Alemanha Oriental e prossegue pela Checoslováquia, pela Polónia, pela Hungria e pela antiga União Soviética. Ali tentará desvendar a verdadeira face do comunismo idealizado por Lenine: um regime kafkiano que quase não é questionado por um povo assustado que parece resignar-se ao seu destino. Escrito e publicado em fascículos na mesma época que o lendário Relato de Um Náufrago, esta reportagem é outro exemplo inestimável de árduo trabalho de investigação, rigor histórico e fidelidade aos factos narrados, todos eles pilares do jornalismo de qualidade. Com a sua indiscutível mestria literária, Gabriel García Márquez demonstra uma vez mais a sua vocação mais profunda: o prazer de contar uma boa história.
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Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist. García Márquez, familiarly known as "Gabo" in his native country, was considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century. In 1982, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. He studied at the University of Bogotá and later worked as a reporter for the Colombian newspaper El Espectador and as a foreign correspondent in Rome, Paris, Barcelona, Caracas, and New York. He wrote many acclaimed non-fiction works and short stories, but is best-known for his novels, such as One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) and Love in the Time of Cholera (1985). His works have achieved significant critical acclaim and widespread commercial success, most notably for popularizing a literary style labeled as magical realism, which uses magical elements and events in order to explain real experiences. Some of his works are set in a fictional village called Macondo, and most of them express the theme of solitude. Having previously written shorter fiction and screenplays, García Márquez sequestered himself away in his Mexico City home for an extended period of time to complete his novel Cien años de soledad, or One Hundred Years of Solitude, published in 1967. The author drew international acclaim for the work, which ultimately sold tens of millions of copies worldwide. García Márquez is credited with helping introduce an array of readers to magical realism, a genre that combines more conventional storytelling forms with vivid, layers of fantasy. Another one of his novels, El amor en los tiempos del cólera (1985), or Love in the Time of Cholera, drew a large global audience as well. The work was partially based on his parents' courtship and was adapted into a 2007 film starring Javier Bardem. García Márquez wrote seven novels during his life, with additional titles that include El general en su laberinto (1989), or The General in His Labyrinth, and Del amor y otros demonios (1994), or Of Love and Other Demons. (Arabic: جابرييل جارسيا ماركيز) (Hebrew: גבריאל גארסיה מרקס)
