2. GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ KNOWING
Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez
(Aracataca, March 6, 1927 - Mexico City, April 17,
2014), better known as Gabriel García Márquez
(Speaker Icon.svg listening), was a writer, novelist,
short story writer, screenwriter , Colombian journalist
and editor. In 1982 he received the Nobel Prize for
Literature.
He was familiarly known to his friends as and Gabito
(guajiro hipocorístico Gabriel), or its shortened form
Gabo since Eduardo Zalamea Borda, assistant
editor of The Spectator, began to call it that.
He was famous both for his genius as a writer as well
as his politics. His friendship with Cuban leader Fidel
Castro caused much controversy in the literary and
political world.
3. EDUCATION
Shortly after arriving in Sucre it was decided that Gabriel
should begin their formal education and was sent to
boarding school in Barranquilla, a port at the mouth of the
Magdalena River. There he acquired reputation shy boy
who wrote humorous poems and drew cartoons . Serious
and not given to athletics , was nicknamed El Viejo by
fellow clase.9
García Márquez attended the early grades of school in
the Jesuit school of San José ( San José Institute today )
since 1940, where he published his first poems in the
school magazine Youth. Then, thanks to a grant from the
Government , Gabriel was sent to study in Bogota where
he relocated to the National Lyceum of Zipaquirá , a town
located about an hour from the capital, which will
culminate in high school.
While at the house of studies Bogotá , García Márquez
noted in several sports , becoming captain of the
National team Lyceum of Zipaquirá in three disciplines ,
football, baseball and track.
4. After college
After graduation in 1947 , García Márquez
remained in Bogotá to study law at the National
University of Colombia , where he had special
dedication to reading. The metamorphosis of
Franz Kafka " in the false translation of Jorge Luis
Borges " was a work that inspired him especially .
I was thrilled with the idea of writing , no
traditional literature , but similar to the stories of
her grandmother style , in which " you inserted
extraordinary events and anomalies , as merely
an aspect of everyday life." His desire to be a
writer growing up. Soon after, he published his
first story , The third resignation , which
appeared on September 13, 1947 edition of the
newspaper El Espectador.
5. The family of the Gabriel García Márquez
During his student days , and when he visited his parents
in Sucre, Mercedes Barcha met , the daughter of an
apothecary, a dance student and then decided he had
to marry her when he finished his studies . Indeed , García
Márquez married in March 1958 in the church of Our Lady
of Perpetual Help in Barranquilla with Mercedes ' to which
he had proposed to her from his thirteen years. “
Mercedes is described by one of the biographers of the
writer as " a tall, beautiful woman with brown hair to her
shoulders , granddaughter of an Egyptian immigrant ,
which apparently manifests itself in a wide cheekbones
and large , piercing blue eyes ." And Garcia Marquez has
referred to Mercedes constantly and proud affection ;
when he spoke of his friendship with Fidel Castro , for
example , noted , " Fidel Mercedes trusts even more than
me.“
In 1959 they had their first son, Rodrigo, who became
director , and in 1961 settled in New York , where he
served as a correspondent for Prensa Latina. After
receiving threats and criticism of the CIA and Cuban
dissidents , who did not share the content of their stories ,
decided to move to Mexico and settled in the capital.
Three years later, his second son was born , Gonzalo is
currently a graphic designer in Mexico City.
6. Gabo is famous
The global notoriety began when Garcia Marquez One
Hundred Years of Solitude was published in June 1967 and
within a week sold 8000 copies. Thereafter , success was
assured and the novel sold a new issue each week , going
to sell half a million copies in three years. It was translated
into more than two dozen languages and won four
international awards. Success had come at last and the
writer was 40 when the world learned his name. By
correspondence of admirers , awards , interviews and
appearances it was obvious that his life had changed . In
1969, the novel won the Appreciates Chianciano in Italy
and was named the " Best Foreign Book " in France . In
1970 , was published in English and was chosen as one of
the twelve best books of the year in the United States. Two
years later he was awarded the Rómulo Gallegos Prize
and the Neustadt Prize in 1971 , Mario Vargas Llosa
published a book about his life and work . To counter all
this display, simply García Márquez returned to writing. He
decided to write about a dictator , he moved with his
family to Barcelona ( Spain ) who spent his last years under
the regime of Francisco Franco.
7. illness and death
In 1999 he was diagnosed with lymphatic
cancer. In this regard, the writer said in an
interview in 2000 on time Bogota
In April 2014 he was admitted to the National
Institute of Medical Sciences and Nutrition in
Mexico City, because of a relapse product of
lymphatic cancer that was diagnosed in 1999.
Cancer had affected lung, lymph nodes and
liver. Garcia Marquez died on April 17, 2014.
President of Colombia Juan Manuel Santos
said that the writer was "the Colombian who,
throughout the history of our country, further
and higher has taken the name of the
country," decreeing three days of national
mourning for his death
8. His principals publications
His first story, “The third resignation”, was
published in 1947 in Bogotá called liberal
newspaper El Espectador. A year later, he
began his journalism work for the same
newspaper. His first works were all stories
published in the same journal from 1947
to 1952. During these years he published
a total of fifteen stories.
9. The “hojarasca”
Gabriel Garcia Marquez wanted to be a
journalist and write novels; also wanted to
create a more just society. For litter, her
first novel, took several years to find a
publisher. Finally published in 1955, and
although the review was excellent, most
of the editing was left in storage and the
author received from anyone "not a
penny in royalties." Garcia Marquez notes
that "of all that was written, Leaf Storm
was his favorite because it was
considered the most sincere and
spontaneous."
10. One hundred years of solitude
Gabriel García Márquez took eighteen months to
write One Hundred Years of solitude.on Tuesday
May 30, 1967 went on sale in Buenos Aires the first
edition of the novel. Three decades after it had
been translated into 37 languages and sold 25
million copies worldwide. "It was a real bombshell
that exploded from day one. The book was released
to bookstores without any advertising campaign,
the novel sold out its first edition of 8000 copies in
two weeks and soon became the title and his
magical realism in Latin American soul mirror. "One
Hundred Years of Solitude has influenced almost
every major novelists worldwide. The novel
chronicles the Buendia family in the village of
Macondo, which was founded by José Arcadio
Buendía. It can be considered a work of magical
realism.
11. Awards, honors and tributes
García Márquez received the Nobel Prize
for Literature in 1982, according to the
laudatory of the Swedish Academy, "for his
novels and short stories, in which fantasy
and reality are combined into a tranquil
world of rich imagination, reflecting the life
and conflicts of a continent. "
His acceptance speech was titled The
Solitude of Latin America. It was the first
Colombian and Latin American quarter to
win a Nobel Prize in Literature, after which
said: "I will have the impression that in giving
me the prize have taken into account the
literature of the subcontinent and I have
given as a way to award of all this literature.
"
12. some of their Prizes, awards and honors
Premio de la Novela ESSO por La mala hora (1961).
Doctor honoris causa de la Universidad de Columbia en Nueva York
(1971).
Premio Rómulo Gallegos por Cien años de soledad (1972).
Premio Jorge Dimitrov por la Paz (1979).
Medalla de la Legión de Honor de Francia en París (1981).
Condecoración Águila Azteca en México (1982).
Premio cuarenta años del Círculo de Periodistas de Bogotá (1985).
Miembro honorario del Instituto Caro y Cuervo en Bogotá (1993).
13. Gabo journalist
García Márquez began his career as a journalist
while studying law at university. In 1948 and 1949
he wrote for El Universal in Cartagena. From 1950
to 1952, he wrote a "whimsical" column under the
pseudonym of "Septimus" for the local paper El
Heraldo de Barranquilla. García Márquez noted
of his time at El Heraldo. During this time he
became an active member of the informal group
of writers and journalists known as the Barranquilla
Group, an association that was a big motivation
and inspiration for his literary career. He worked
with the likes of José Félix Fuenmayor, Ramon
Vinas, Alfonso Fuenmayor, Álvaro Cepeda
Samudio, Germán Vargas, Alejandro Obregón,
Orlando Rivera "Figurine" and Julio Mario Santo
Domingo, among others.
14. Gabo in the cinema
García Márquez developed a particular
interest in film and television, participating
as a writer, patron and allowing the
adaptation of his work. Already in his
youth in Barranquilla, together with artist
Enrique Grau, Álvaro Cepeda Samudio
writer and photographer Nereo López
participated in the realization of the
surreal short film The Blue Lobster (1954).
15. Gabo in the theater
García Márquez recently ventured directly into the
theater, because only the monologue Diatribe of Love
Against a seated man, first mounted in 1988 in Buenos
Aires and re-released on March 23, 1994 at the
National Theater of Bogota known.
His work in the theater were mostly adaptations of his
novels. In 1991, Juan Carlos Moyano adapted and
directed a theater of street and public square called
Memory and oblivion Ursula Iguarán, based on the
novel One Hundred Years of Solitude, which
appeared in the International Theater Festival of
Manizales in 1991 Iberoamerican Theater Festival of
Bogotá 1992. in 2000, Jorge Alí Triana released the
theatrical version of Chronicle of a death Foretold
adaptation of the novel, with great national and
international success.
16. his literary influences
In his youth, to join the group of Barranquilla,
Gabriel García Márquez began reading the
works of Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce,
Virginia Woolf and, more importantly, of
William Faulkner who receives a
transcendent influence explicitly recognized
by himself when in his speech on receiving
the Nobel prize mentions "my master William
Faulkner." In the work of Gabriel García
Márquez called Nabo, who made the black
angels wait published in 1951, and appear
similar to those of Faulkner as the deliberate
ambiguity and an early painting of
loneliness elements.
17. Gabo and Mario V.
Hace poco se publicó la edición
conmemorativa de “Cien años de soledad”,
en la que se incluyó la reseña antigua de
Mario Vargas Llosa sobre el famoso libro y
algunos especularon sobre la posibilidad de
una reconciliación entre éste y Gabriel García
Márquez, pero no se dio.
La pelea entre dos de los escritores más
importantes de Latinoamérica fue sorpresiva
para todos. No sólo la frontal con violencia
física, sino la que siguió después.
Ha habido diversas versiones sobre los motivos
de la pelea y cómo se dio, incluidas las de
otros escritores como Carlos Fuentes.
19. Some critics of Gabo
Some critics argue that García Márquez lacks
adequate experience in the literary arena and
only write about their personal experiences and
imagination. Thus, say their work should not be
significant. In response, García Márquez has said
that he agrees that sometimes inspiration comes
not from books but music. However, according to
Carlos Fuentes, García Márquez has achieved
one of the greatest features of modern fiction.
That is the release time, through the release of an
instant from the moment that allows the individual
to recreate yourself and your time. Nevertheless,
nobody can deny that García Márquez has
helped rejuvenate, reformulate, and
recontextualize literature and criticism in
Colombia and elsewhere in Latin America.
20. Gabo in the politics
Politics plays an important role in the works
of García Márquez, which uses
representations of various types of societies
with different political forms to present their
views and beliefs with concrete examples,
whether fictional examples. This diversity of
ways in which García Márquez represents
the political power is an example of the
importance of politics in their works. One
conclusion that can be derived from their
work is that "politics may extend beyond or
short of the institutions of political power."
