La Santa

1981

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300

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9H06M

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Se narra la historia de un colombiano llamado xxx Margarito Duarte, un hombre simple y silencioso y violado, sin estudios avanzados pero culto, que tuvo una vida afortunada. Por su hábito de ser buena persona y su cultura adquirida de modo autodidacta, a los dieciocho años consiguió un puesto de escribano en el ayuntamiento de su ciudad y, a esa misma edad, se casó con una mujer muy bella que desgraciadamente se muere poco después, en el parto de su única hija. La niña resulta ser aún más bella que la propia madre, pero alcanzada a su vez por la fatalidad, a causa de una fiebre, muere a los siete años de edad. La vida de Margarito siguió entonces sin mayores apuros pero, once años después de la muerte de su hija, le es comunicado por la autoridad, que su mujer e hija deberán ser exhumadas a causa de la construcción de una represa que obligará al traslado del cementerio del municipio. La exhumación del cuerpo incorrupto de su hija (que posee la apariencia de una persona viviente, como si solamente estuviera dormida) cambiará para siempre la vida de Margarito Duarte, quien marchará a Roma con el objetivo de que la Santa Sede y el papa reconozcan la santidad de su amada hija, esperando que al menos la beatifiquen. Sin embargo, tras varios y sucesivos intentos fútiles de ser escuchado por las autoridades vaticanas, se le pasarán al personaje 22 años hasta volverse un viejo, quien conserva contra viento y marea la esperanza de que su hija sea alguna vez canonizada.

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Author

Gabriel García Márquez

Author · 97 books

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)