Gabriel García Márquez
66) Time to die
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Fresh from serving eighteen years in jail for shooting a man in self-defense, Juan Sayago comes back to his hometown to start life anew and reunite with old flame Mariana. Official Selection at the **Cannes Film Festival.** *"An austere Western that kicks up a slowly blinding storm of dust, regret and vengeance..." - Robert Abele, **The Los Angeles Times*** *"A gem of a vintage Mexican-Western that feels its moral quandaries deeply..." - John DeFore,...
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Florentino is a poetry-writing telegraph operator who lives in a Central American city. He spots the graceful Fermina while making his rounds, and finds himself in love. While Florentino's mother encourages the courtship, Fermina's father absolutely forbids it. Years pass, and the well-born Dr. Urbino treats Fermina for a case of cholera. When Urbino proposes, Fermina accepts. A distraught Florentino decides to wait. With the help of his uncle, he...
68) Cuentos
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"Esta edición recupera la recopilación que el propio Hemingway hiciera de todos sus cuentos en 1938, conocida como Los cuarenta y nueve primeros cuentos, donde se encuentran relatos tan magistrales como «Los asesinos», «Las nieves del Kilimanjaro» o «Padres e hijos». El mundo estético y moral de Hemingway se encuentra aquí destilado, seco, sobrio, cegador, latente. La caza, la pesca, el boxeo, la guerra, el alcohol, el deseo o la derrota...
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"Este libro reúne, por primera vez, la correspondencia entre los cuatro principales novelistas del Boom latinoamericano: Cortázar, Fuentes, García Márquez y Vargas Llosa. Los dos últimos recibieron el Premio Nobel, y los dos primeros lo merecían; a nadie hubiera sorprendido que lo obtuvieran. Esta conversación entre cuatro amigos brillantes y exitosos nos ofrece un acceso sin precedentes a sus relaciones personales y colectivas, con todos sus...
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W 1967 roku w Krajowej Wyższej Szkole Inżynierii w Limie odbyło się spotkanie dwóch młodych twórców reprezentujących literaturę latynoamerykańską: Llosy i Marqueza. W kilkugodzinnej rozmowie mistrzowie pióra wymienili poglądy na temat roli powieściopisarza w świecie, poruszyli temat ludzkiej samotności, a także poddali analizie jedną z najsłynniejszych powieści Marqueza - "Sto lat samotności". Wspólnie spróbowali też odpowiedzieć...
76) Fidel
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A documentary produced in Cuba celebrating the life and political career of Fidel Castro through archival footage, interviews with Castro and commentary by family, associates, former guerrilla fighters, politicians and historians. Castro is seen swimming with bodyguards in the ocean, visiting his childhood home and school, joking with his friend Nelson Mandela, meeting with Elian Gonzalez, and celebrating his birthday with the Buena Vista Social Club....
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez was born in Aracataca, Colombia in 1928. He studied at the University of Bogota and later worked as a reporter for the Colombian newspaper El Espectador and as a foreign correspondent in Rome, Paris, Barcelona, Caracas, and New York. A premiere Latin American writer, Gabriel Garcia Marquez is associated with "magical realism, " storytelling wherein the fantastic and the real exist side-by-side, and the truth seems to emerge...
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Joaquina has never married, but she makes up for it by going to the movies, where she lets her imagination run away with her. When her young nephew comes for a visit, she introduces him to her fantasy world, in which the actors easily become the characters they play, and vice versa. But, she takes her fantasies too far when she decides to do something about the marauding bandits that plague her small town. She writes to legendary western hero Tom...
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"During a time of inquisition and slavery, Sierva María wants to know what kisses taste like. She is 13 years old, daughter of aristocrats but raised by their African slaves living in colonial Cartagena de Indias. When a rabid dog bites her, the bishop declares she is possessed and entrust Cayetano his pupil, with her exorcism. The priest and the girl find themselves seduced by a demon more powerful than faith and reason"--http://moscowfilmfestival.ru/upfile/file/46.pdf....