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Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Hundred Years
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In 1999, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the foremost author in Latin America, learned that he had lymphatic cancer. Now, after three years of researching and writing, he is poised to release what may be his most awaited book, the first volume of his memoirs.
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The Nobel Prize-winning writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez returns to his home village, Aracataca, Colombia, to mark his upcoming 80th birthday. It's the 40th anniversary of his masterwork, One Hundred Years of Solitude.
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez was born in 1928 and is best known in the English-speaking world for his novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude, which appeared early in his career in Spanish (1967) and later in English (1970). He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982 and in 1988 published the novel, 0008 (see annotation), which received considerable attention for its evocative story of love and memory.
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Gabriel Jose Garcia Marquez was born on March 6, 1928 in Aracataca, a banana town in Colombia. The prodominant banana industry and the massacre of striking banana workers in 1928 were the events that influenced his work. He was raised by his maternal grandparents for eight years. Several of his superstitious aunts lived with him, and later he credited much of his storytelling style - telling fantasy stories as if they were the implacable truth, to his grandmother. In 1936, because of his grandfather's death and his grandmother's increasing blindness, Garcia Marquez returned to his parents' home in Sucre, a site of many non-Macondo stories.
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The life of Garcia Marquez is filled with literary prizes, homages, honorary degrees, and friendship with world figures in literature, politics, and the Church. Among the list of friends most frequently mentioned by scholars are Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro, Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes, British novelist Graham Greene, French President Francois Miterrand, Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, Panamanian nationalist General Omar Torrijos, and the Colombian priest Camilo Torres. Camilo Torres, a friend from Garcia Marquez's years in college, became a priest; baptized Garcia Marquez's first son, Gonzalo; and in the 1960s became a popular figure for turning priesthood into a form of rebellion (Liberation Theology). He was killed by the Colombian armed forces in 1966. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, now in his seventies, enjoys wealth and fame. Fame, he says, is great - but after all the fanfare associated with being famous is over, he adds humorously, the only real benefit is not having to stand in line.
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"Garcia Marquez's slim, reflective contribution to the romance of the brothel, his first book-length fiction in a decade, is narrated by perhaps the greatest connoisseur ever of girls for hire. After a lifetime spent in the arms of prostitutes (514 when he loses count at age 50), the unnamed journalist protagonist decides that his gift to himself on his 90th birthday will be a night with an adolescent virgin. But age, followed by the unexpected blossoming of love, disrupts his plans, and he finds himself wooing the allotted 14-year-old in silence for a year, sitting beside her as she sleeps and contemplating a life idly spent. Flashes of Garcia Marquez's brilliant imagery — the sleeping girl is 'drenched in phosphorescent perspiration' — illuminate the novella, and there are striking insights into the euphoria that is the flip side of the fear of death. The narrator's wit and charm... are not enough to counterbalance the monotony of his aimlessness. Though enough grace notes are struck to produce echoes of eloquence, this flatness keeps the memories as melancholy as the women themselves.
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