Gabriel Garcia Marquez: The Early Years by Ilan Stavans
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The legend behind the creation of his masterwork has come to be referred to, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and others who knew hum, simply as "the miracle." It took place in 1965, on the road from Mexico city to Acapulco. Suddenly, as Garcia Marquez drove, the entire first chapter appeared to him and set him on a course to write the whole story. The story, of course, was One Hundred Years of Solitude. This biography charts the remarkable years of Garcia Marquez's life leading up to its publication.
In this long-awaited interpretation of the foremost voice in Latin American fiction, Ilan Stavans examines Garcia Marquez's early years, from his birth in Aracataca and lean times as a law student and journalist, to his friendships with Latin American intellectuals such as Mario Vargas Llosa and Carlos Fuentes, through the publicationof the miraculous One Hundred Years of Soiitude and the stardom it brought him.
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of classics such as Love in the Time of Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Gabriel Garcia Marquez has inspired generations of readers all over the world. In this analytical biography and reappraisal of the literary giant's life and work, Ilan Staves focuses thoughtfully on the author's legacy as the father of magical realism and situates Garcia Marquez within the facinating social and political context of his time.
In this long-awaited interpretation of the foremost voice in Latin American fiction, Ilan Stavans examines Garcia Marquez's early years, from his birth in Aracataca and lean times as a law student and journalist, to his friendships with Latin American intellectuals such as Mario Vargas Llosa and Carlos Fuentes, through the publicationof the miraculous One Hundred Years of Soiitude and the stardom it brought him.
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of classics such as Love in the Time of Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Gabriel Garcia Marquez has inspired generations of readers all over the world. In this analytical biography and reappraisal of the literary giant's life and work, Ilan Staves focuses thoughtfully on the author's legacy as the father of magical realism and situates Garcia Marquez within the facinating social and political context of his time.
