«Lo que más me importa en este mundo es el proceso de la creación. ¿Qué clase de misterio es ése que hace que el simple deseo de contar historias se convierta en una pasión, que un ser humano sea capaz de morir por ella; morir de hambre, de frío o lo que sea, con tal de hacer una cosa que no se puede ver ni tocar y que, al fin y al cabo, si bien se mira, no sirve para nada?» — Gabriel García Márquez La bendita manía de contar recoge, junto con Cómo se cuenta un cuento y Me alquilo para soñar, la experiencia del taller de cine coordinado por el premio Nobel de literatura. En este volumen, Gabriel García Márquez recopila impresiones sobre el hecho de contar historias. En palabras del propio narrador colombiano se trata y exalta, se preserva y enriquece la estirpe de los griots y cuenteros en zocos y plazas, estirpe que no está condenada a cien años de soledad ni tampoco ha de sufrir la maldición de Babel. Un libro imprescindible, tanto para aquellos que deseen iniciarse en el arte de la escritura, como para quienes deseen comprender en profundidad los mecanismos que la rigen.
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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)
