Vivir para contarla es, probablemente, uno de los libros más esparados de la década, compendio y recreación de un tiempo clave en la vida de su autor, los años de la infancia y juventud, aquellos en los que se fundaría todo el imaginario que, con el tiempo, dará lugar a algunos de los relatos y novelas claves en la literatura en lengua española del siglo veinte. Vivir para contarla es la novela de una vida y, a lo largo de sus páginas el lector...

Presents a collection of speeches given by the Colombian novelist and Nobel Prize winner, from a farewell to his fellow students when he was seventeen to a speech to an illustrious audience celebrating his eightieth birthday.

¿Es posible descifrar la enigmática Cien años de soledad? Los apasionados de la novela total de Gabriel García Márquez encontrarán en este ensayo una revolucionaria aproximación defendida magistralmente por Sultana Wahnón, quien se presenta como nuestro particular Aureliano Babilonia en la tarea de revelar la historia familiar de los Buendía. Con prosa trepidante, Wahnón desmenuza forma y contenido de Cien años de soledad, recogiendo las...

"Written with compassionate realism and wit, the stories in this collection depict the disparities of town and village life in South America, of the frightfully poor and outrageously rich, of memories and illusions, and of lost opportunities and present joys."--Jacket.

" ... Nacido en 1927 y educado por sus abuelos en una pequeña aldea colombiana, el tímido e inteligente muchacho se convirtió en un hombre reservado, un periodista que encontró la fama como novelista, a los cuarenta años, tras publicar 'Cien años de soledad, ' la novela que dio lugar al Realismo Mágico y obra cumbre de la literatura latinoamericana del siglo XX ..."--Page 4 of cover.

This book provides readers with a collection of essays and in-depth discussions of Gabriel García Márquez's novel, "One Hundred Years of Solitude". A chronology of García Márquez's life, a complete list of García Márquez's works and their original dates of publication, a general bibliography, a detailed paragraph on the volume's editor, notes on the individual chapter authors, and a subject index are also provided

"In March 2014, Gabriel García Márquez, one of the most internationally beloved writers of the 20th century, came down with a cold. He was almost 87 years old, and battling dementia. 'I don't think we'll get out of this one,' Mercedes Barcha, his wife of over fifty years, told Rodrigo, their son. As reality begins to sink in, Rodrigo asks himself, 'Is this how the end begins?' Instead of waiting for an answer, Rodrigo starts to write about the beginning...

Renowned as a master of magical realism, Gabriel Garcia Marquez has long delighted readers around the world with his exquisitely crafted prose. Brimming with unforgettable characters and set in exotic locales, his fiction transports readers to a world that is at once fanciful, haunting, and real. Leaf Storm, Gabriel Garcia Marquez's first novella, introduces the mythical village of Macondo, a desolate town beset by torrents of rain, where a man must...