“United States publishers of Latin American authors are gratified that Gabriel Garcia Marquez of Colombia was recently awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, for it bolsters their conviction that some of today’s most important and innovative writing is being done in the Spanish language.”
-Edwin McDowell, The New York Times
“There are at least a half dozen Latin American writers more deserving of the Nobel Prize: Juan Carlos Onetti, for example, or [Jorge Juis] Borges. I suppose it depends on your concept of literature. if you consider the novel depends on fantasies, fine; but the philosophical depth of those older writers is absent, I’m sorry to say, is absent in Garcia Marquez.”
-Roberto Ruiz
“Gabriel Garcia Marquez is known for his short stories and novels which have magical vitality and a great abundance of remarkable characters and incidents. Chronicle of a Death Foretold is very strange and brilliantly conceived.”
-Leonard Michaels, The New York Times
“Faced with this awesome reality that must have seemed a mere utopia through all of human time, we, the inventors of tales, who will believe anything, feel entitled to believe that it is not yet too late to engage in the creation of the opposite utopia. A new and sweeping utopia of life, where no one will be able to decide for others how they die, where love will prove true and happiness be possible, and where the races condemned to one hundred years of solitude will have, at last and forever, a second opportunity on earth.”
-Gabriel Marquez
“Gabriel García Márquez - Nobel Lecture”. Nobelprize.org. 25 Sep 2011 http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1982/marquez-lecture.html
“One Hundred Years of Solutide is the first piece of literature since the Book of Genesis that should be required reading for the entire human race. It takes up not long after Genesis left off and carries through to the air age, reporting on everything that happened in between with more lucidity, wit, wisdom, and poetry that is expected from 100 years of novelists, let alone one man.”
-William Kennedy, The New York Times
In response to that review…
“Required reading? The book is so in love with its own cleverness that it is profoundly unreadable. Let us hope that One Hundred Years of Solitude will not generate one hundred years of overwritten, overlong, overrated novels.”
-Jonathan Bate, Sunday Telegraph
My grandmother was a strong believer in superstitious stories and paranormal activity. She would tell me stories of ghosts and many folk tales. These stories had such an impact on my that I later mentioned them in one of my greatest novels, One Hundred Years of Solitude.
Vijh, Surekha. “Gabriel Garcia Marquez: creator of the magic realism movement in Latin-American Literature.” World and I Jan. 2008. Gale Biography In Context. Web. 25 Sep. 2011.
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It is a visual image that gives me inspiration, not just for my books but for my films as well!
Fidel Castro and Bill Clinton have sought Marquez’ friendship and confidence
