Garcia Marquez, Gabriel

García Márquez, Gabriel 

Born 1928, in Aracataca, Colombia. Colombian writer.

García Márquez has been the author of screenplays, a reporter for the liberal newspaper El Espectador both in Bogotá and Europe, and a correspondent from 1959 to 1960 for the Cuban Prensa Latina agency. His novellas Leaf Storm (1955), No One Writes to the Colonel (1958), and An Ill Time (1962) are written in a realistic style with strong critical themes. He introduced fantasy into his stories for the first time in the collection Mama Grande’s Funeral (1962). This fantastic element became one of the primary artistic devices of his epic novel One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967; Russian translation, 1970), but Colombian history serves as its real base. Marked by a complicated multileveled structure, the novel presents a satirical picture of bourgeois civilization.

WORKS

In Russian translation:
Sto let odinochestva. Afterword by V. Stolbov. Moscow, 1971.

REFERENCES

“Buendia, Makondo i mir.” Latinskaia Amerika, 1971, no. 3.
“Revoliutsionnyi dolg pisatelia—pisat’ khorosho’ (Gabriel’ Garsia Markes o svoem tvorchestve i o sebe),” Inostrannaia literatura, 1971, no. 6.
Recopilación de textos sobre Gabriel García Márquez. Havana, 1969.

V. S. STOLBOV