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...Spotting these nods to García Márquez’s back catalogue is fun, but is it enough?...
...In his lifetime, Gabriel García Márquez decided that his final novel should not be published....
...Inspired by Gabriel García Márquez, particularly his novel Love in the Time of Cholera, with a libretto by Marcela Fuentes-Berain, this is only the third Spanish-language opera presented by the Met (the...
...It was García Márquez who called her, five books into their relationship, to say, “I hear you’re two-timing me with [Miguel de] Cervantes.”...
...Her early work reads like a punchy, lyrical combination of the magical realism of Gabriel García Márquez and Isabel Allende mixed with the doughty British outlandishness of, say, Rose Macaulay or Nancy Mitford...
...Guayasamín was a life-long leftist who, like another friend in the photos, Gabriel García Márquez, stayed loyal to Castro and his ideals until the end....
...It’s harder to invest in the male characters, given some of the antiquated sexual politics on view, though Adam Garcia manages to bring nuance to under-pressure director Marsh....
...Until August by Gabriel García Márquez (Viking/Knopf)Before his death in 2014, the legendary Colombian writer was at work on a novel he decided should never be published....
...Like García Márquez, Petro was born in northern Colombia, close to the Caribbean. His family emigrated from Italy in the 19th century....
...In his Nobel speech, García Márquez said that when confronted with tragedy, Latin America’s answer was life....
...Disavowing the magical realism associated with the region — epitomised by Gabriel García Márquez’s 1967 novel One Hundred Years of Solitude, in which fantasy tilts towards enchantment — as the product of...
...A vast kaleidoscope of golden butterflies flittered around me, a familiar motif in the magic realism of Colombia’s Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez, where they symbolise hope and peace....
...In his defence, however, I feel I should point out that his remark is also recognisable as part of a memorable description of a man from Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez....
...Salvador Dalí’s “Lobster Telephone” meets Cepeda Samudio’s avant-garde Colombian short film “The Blue Lobster”, created with contributions from magical realist novelist Gabriel García Márquez....
...And I remember I gave a first edition of Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude to my daughter’s father because it was published in English the year he and I were born....
...The marriage in 1958, after García Márquez returned from writing in Europe, was undoubtedly a love match but, according to Mr Martin, was also a “highly practical, strategic choice” by García Márquez....
...For Gabriel García Márquez, he was the “true master of journalism”; for Margaret Atwood, a “superlative witness to our times”....
...When Gabriel García Márquez wouldn’t come to Wales, Florence went to Colombia — launching Hay Festival Cartagena....
...In his youth, Gabriel García Márquez often travelled on the stately three-decker river steamers that, he wrote, churned like “illuminated villages” up the Río Magdalena from the Caribbean coast....
...And, from the opening sentence — which softly echoes the work of Gabriel García Márquez — there is a sense of one magical realist tipping her hat to another: “On the first anniversary of his wife’s death...
...Ricardo Márquez Blas, an analyst and former security official, noted that the drug trafficking and money laundering allegations Gen Cienfuegos faced “are not crimes you do individually — you need the involvement...
...“This [attack on García Harfuch] is a consequence of the systematic failure to pursue organised crime and its leaders,” said Mr Márquez Blas....
...In between sips, he recites García Márquez on the imaginative leap required to write about a place as culturally remote as Tasmania once was, then Chekhov on the craft of writing....
...Gabriel García Márquez, the Nobel Prize-winning novelist, immortalised the river in Love in the Time of Cholera and The General in his Labyrinth....
...Yet Kawakami’s clean narrative style is very much her own, and her Japanese neighbourhood is far from Gabriel García Márquez’s myth-steeped Macondo; it is one you are more likely to find by turning down...
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