Gabriel García Márquez, familiarly known like Gabito and Gabo, was born in Aractaca (Colombia) on March 6, 1927 and has been a writer, journalist and editor. It was Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982 for all his work. His best known novel is "One Hundred Years of Solitude" considered one of the most representative of magical realism and a classic in Spanish language of all time. For me it is so recommended as "Love in the Time of Cholera" (the first novel I read by Gabriel). He died on April 17, 2014 in Mexico DF.
With the look of a sweet grandfather, Gabriel was a rebellious soul who proposed eliminating spelling rules and was a friend of the Cuban leader Fidel Castro. His novel "Memories of My Melancholy Whores" in which is told the romance of a man of ninety years and his pubescent concubine caused great controversy in Iran where its sale is prohibited and in Mexico, an NGOs threatened to sue him for making apology for child prostitution.
Gabito don't have a very defined style, its would normally encompasses the magical realism. He is known because his stories leave out seemingly important details in the story development. For example in "No one writes to the Coronel" the main characters don't have names. His most recurring themes are loneliness, Macondo an imaginary village as defined by the writer as "is not so much a place as a state of mind", violence and culture.In his youth he read Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway and the most important to him: William Faulkner. He studied classics as Sophocles (Oedipus the King) and the iconoclastic poetic movement "Stone and Sky" was essential for him.
One Hundred Years of Solitude: the book tells the story of the Buendia family over seven generations in the fictional town of Macondo. José Arcadio Buendía and Úrsula Iguarán are a marriage of cousins full of fears for their relationship and the myth that their offspring might have pig tails. After a discution José challenges to Prudencio Aguilar. As a result thereof the marriage decides to leave to live in the mountains but at the whim of the dreams ends up creating a settlement in the jungle. There they had three children: José Arcadio, Aureliano and Amaranta. The patriarch stable a friendship with a gypsy, Melquiades, who is fundamental to the Aguilar family. The matriarch lives over a hundred years caring for her family, seeing the town grow and the people coming incluse adopt to Rebeca, a newcomer. To the city insomnia comes which causes memory loss, illness was cured by Melquiades. The village was active in the civil war fighting conservative regime which continues until Colonel Aureliano Buendía makes peace. His son, Aureliano Triste, install an ice maker. Shortly after parts of town with the intention of bringing the train which reaches the telegraph, the phonograph and cinema. The village becomes the center of activity in the region, reaching new foreigners who create a banana plantation. The village is destroyed by the rains that lasted 4 years, 11 months and 2 days. After that Ursula dies and Macondo is desolate. The last of the Buendía, Aureliano marries his aunt Amaranta Ursula with having a baby with pig tails. The story ends when the last Aureliano finish deciphering the parchments of Melquiades where the fate of all the Buendia family is predicted.
Love in the Time of Cholera: divided into six chapters tells of the love triangle between Dr. Juvenal Urbino, Femina Daza and Florentino Ariza. At the beginning of Juvenal and Fermina are 81 and 71 years old and are married. With the death of Juvenal, Florentino declaring to Fermina being rejected but thus beginning the references to past events that provide the information to draw the characters. Florentino fell in love with Fermina when he went to take her a telegram. He began to conquer her with passionate letters. When Fermina succumbs her father was opposed and sent her away. She knew to Juvenal and encouraged by her father, get married but she wasn't really in love. With the death of Juvenal, Florentino resend letters to Fermina who finally agrees to travel with him on a ship called "New Fidelity" where finally seal their love.
Work:
• 1955 - Litter
• 1961 - No One Writes to The Colonel
• 1962 - Evil Hour
• 1962 - The funeral of Big Mama
• 1967 - One Hundred Years of Solitude
• 1968 - Isabel watch to rain in Macondo
• 1968 - The Novel in Latin America: A Dialogue (with Mario Vargas Llosa
• 1970 - Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor
• 1972 - The Incredible and Sad Tale of Candida Erendira and Her Heartless Grandmother
• 1972 - Eyes of a blue dog
• 1972 - The wait did black angels
• 1973 - When I was happy and undocumented
• 1974 - Chile, Bash and gringos
• 1975 - The Autumn of the Patriarch
• 1975 - All the stories of Gabriel García Márquez: 1947-1972
• 1976 - Reports and articles
• 1977 - Operation Carlota
• 1978 - Militant Journalism
• 1978 - Trip to the socialist countries
• 1978 - Tigra
• 1981 - Chronicle of a Death Foretold
• 1981 - Journalistic Work
• 1981 - Happy lady summer Forbes
• 1981 - The Trail of Your Blood in the Snow
• 1982 - The Kidnapping: Screenplay
• 1982 - Live Sandino
• 1985 - Love in the Time of Cholera
• 1986 - The Adventure of Miguel Littín , Clandestine in Chile
• 1987 - Diatribe of Love Against a seated man monologue in one act
• 1989 - The General in His Labyrinth
• 1990 - Press Releases, 1961-1984
• 1992 - Strange Pilgrims
• 1994 - Of Love and Other Demons
• 1995 - How a story is told
• 1995 - I dream to alkyl
• 1996 - News of a Kidnapping
• 1996 - For a country the reach of children
• 1998 - The blessed mania have
• 1999 - What's free: journalistic work (1974-1995)
• 2002 - Living to Tell
• 2004 - Memories of My Melancholy Whores
• 2010 - I'm not here to make a speech
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