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Gabriel García Márquez a life

The biography of the 1982 Nobel Laureate in Literature tells the story of Márquez, a young man who rose from obscure provincial journalist to progenitor of a new literature.

Main Author: Martin, Gerald, 1944-
Format: Downloads eBook Books eBook
Language: English
Published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.
Subjects:
García Márquez, Gabriel, > 1927-2014-
Authors, Colombian > 20th century > Biography.
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Maps
  • Foreword
  • Prologue : from origins obscure (1800-1899)
  • pt. I. Home : Colombia : 1899-1955
  • 1. Of colonels and lost causes (1899-1927)
  • 2. The house at Aracataca (1927-1928)
  • 3. Holding his grandfather's hand (1929-1937)
  • 4. Schooldays : Barranquilla, Sucre, Zipaquirá (1938-1946)
  • 5. The university student and the Bogotazo (1947-1948)
  • 6. Back to the Costa : an apprentice journalist in Cartagena (1948-1949)
  • 7. Barranquilla, a bookseller and a Bohemian group (1950-1953)
  • 8. Back to Bogotá : the ace reporter (1954-1955)
  • pt. II. Abroad : Europe and Latin America : 1955-1967
  • 9. The discovery of Europe : Rome (1955)
  • 10. Hungry in Paris : La Bohème (1956-1957)
  • 11. Beyond the Iron Curtain : Eastern Europe during the Cold War (1957)
  • 12. Venezuela and Colombia : the birth of Big Mama (1958-1959)
  • 13. The Cuban Revolution and the USA (1959-1961)
  • 14. Escape to Mexico (1961-1964)
  • 15. Melquíades the Magician : One hundred Years of Solitude (1965-1966)
  • 16. Fame at last (1966-1967)
  • pt. III. Man of the world : celebrity and politics : 1967-2005
  • 17. Barcelona and the Latin American boom : between literature and politics (1967-1970)
  • 18. The solitary author slowly writes : The Autumn of the Patriarch and the wider world (1971-1975)
  • 19. Chile and Cuba : García Márquez opts for the Revolution (1973-1979)
  • 20. Return to literature : Chronicle of a Death Foretold and the Nobel Prize (1980-1982)
  • 21. The frenzy of renown and the fragrance of Guava : Love in the Time of Cholera (1982-1985)
  • 22. Against official history : García Márquez's Bolívar (The General in His Labyrinth) (1986-1989)
  • 23. Back to Macondo? News of a historic catastrophe (1990-1996)
  • 24. García Márquez at seventy and beyond : memoirs and melancholy whores (1996-2005)
  • Epilogue : immortality
  • the new Cervantes (2006-2007)
  • Appendix. Family trees
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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