Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014)
Author of One Hundred Years of Solitude
About the Author
Gabriel García Márquez was born in Aracataca, Colombia on March 6, 1927. After studying law and journalism at the National University of Colombia in Bogota, he became a journalist. In 1965, he left journalism, to devote himself to writing. His works included Leaf Storm, No One Writes to the show more Colonel, The Evil Hour, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera, The Autumn of the Patriarch, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, The General in His Labyrinth, Clandestine in Chile, and the memoir Living to Tell the Tale. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. He died on April 17, 2014 at the age of 87. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Series
Works by Gabriel García Márquez
Collected Novellas (Leaf Storm, No One Writes to the Colonel, Chronicle of a Death Foretold) (1947) 670 copies
Cien años de soledad y un homenaje: Discursos de Gabriel García Márquez y Carlos Fuentes (2007) — Author — 15 copies
Death Constant Beyond Love 12 copies
Leaf Storm | The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor | No One Writes to the Colonel | In Evil Hour | One Hundred Years of… (2014) 11 copies
One Hundred Years of Solitude | Love in the Time of Cholera | Chronicle of a Death Foretold (2019) 8 copies
Collected novellas 6 copies
Cuatro aniversarios 4 copies
Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter | Dora, Doralina | One Hundred Years of Solitude | One Day of Life (1984) 4 copies
The Saint [short story] 3 copies
Eyes of a Blue Dog [short story] 3 copies
El Coronel no tiene quien le escriba 3 copies
One Hundred Years of Solitude | No One Writes to the Colonel | The Autumn of the Patriarch (1989) 3 copies
Vemo-nos em Agosto 3 copies
One Hundred Years of Solitude | Love in the Time of Cholera | One Day After Saturday (1999) 3 copies
One Hundred Years of Solitude | Love in the Time of Cholera | Of Love and Other Demons | Chronicle of a Death Foretold (2006) 3 copies
Gabriel Garcia Marquez Collection: Love in the Time of Cholera, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Chronicle of a Death… (2011) 3 copies
LA HOJARASCA 3 copies
One of These Days [short story] 2 copies
Em agosto nos vemos 2 copies
EN AGOSTO NOS VEMOS 2 copies
El amor en los tiempos del cólera 2 copies
Gabriel Garcia Marquez biografie 2 copies
Tramontana [short story] 2 copies
One Hundred Years of Solitude | Love in the Time of Cholera | Chronicle of a Death Foretold | Collected Stories (2002) 2 copies
Garcia Marquez Opere Narrative 2 copies
Me Alquilo Para Sonar: Capitulo 6 2 copies
Nous nous verrons en août: Roman 2 copies
Alle romans 2 copies
Leaf Storm | In Evil Hour 2 copies
Manual para ser niño 2 copies
Tình Yêu Thời Thổ Tả 1 copy
Trăm năm cô đơn 1 copy
Vidimo se u kolovozu 1 copy
كوبا في زمن الحصار 1 copy
The Third Resignation 1 copy
Kötü Saatte 1 copy
O General no Seu Labirinto 1 copy
On Iki Gezici Öykü 1 copy
Dodici racconti raminghi 1 copy
Le opere 1 copy
Sevgiden Ote Surekli Olum 1 copy
EN AGOSTO NOS VEMOS 1 copy
One Hundred Years of Solitude | Strange Pilgrims | Love in the Time of Cholera | The Autumn of the Patriarch (2012) 1 copy
قصص ضائعة 1 copy
ZLA KOB 1 copy
Riba je crvena 1 copy
Textos do Caribe - Volume 1 1 copy
The Sea of Lost Time 1 copy
La viuda de Montiel 1 copy
Obras Completas 31 Tomos 1 copy
Gabo en Alfaguara 1 copy
Libros cubanos de Gabo 1 copy
Sad Saal Tanhai 1 copy
La Littérature Chinoise 1 copy
Olhos de Cão Azul 1 copy
Sada aastat üksildust 1 copy
No one writes to the colonel and other stories. Translated from the spanish by J. S. Bernstein. 1 copy
Hundra År Av Ensamhet 1 copy
Until August 1 copy
A viláh legszebb vizihullája 1 copy
Doce Cuentos Peregrinos 1 copy
CONTEMPORÁNEA 1 copy
DEL AMOR Y OTROS DEMONIOS 1 copy
Textos do Caribe - Volume 2 1 copy
A Farewell Letter 1 copy
Until August: A novel 1 copy
La hojarasca [Litter] 1 copy
Wir sehen uns im August: Roman | Bisher unveröffentlichte Neuentdeckung aus dem Nachlass des… 1 copy
Bir Kayip Denizci 1 copy
O Amor nos Tempos do Cólera 1 copy
The General in his Labyrinth 1 copy
Caribe Mágico [short story] 1 copy
Relatos de un Náufrago 1 copy
Me alquilo para soñar 1 copy
El Escándalo del Siglo / The Scandal of the Century: Textos En Prensa Y Revistas (1950-1984) (2020) 1 copy
En agosto nos vemos 1 copy
Sz©Łz ©♭v mag©Łny 1 copy
Associated Works
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Contributor, some editions — 915 copies
Other Voices, Other Vistas: Short Stories from Africa, China, India, Japan, and Latin America (1992) — Contributor — 187 copies
The Graphic Canon, Vol. 3: From Heart of Darkness to Hemingway to Infinite Jest (2013) — Contributor — 147 copies
An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine (2000) — Contributor — 131 copies
The Oxford Book of Caribbean Short Stories: Reissue (Oxford Books of Prose) (1999) — Contributor — 93 copies
Sudden Fiction Latino: Short-Short Stories from the United States and Latin America (2010) — Contributor — 69 copies
The New Mystery: The International Association of Crime Writers' Essential Crime Writing of the Late 20th Century (1993) — Contributor — 62 copies
Introducción a la literatura hispanoamericana : de la conquista al siglo XX (1997) — Contributor — 20 copies
Fidel Castro Speeches: Cuba's Internationalist Foreign Policy, 1975-80 (v. 1) (1981) — Contributor — 16 copies
Het continent van de eenzaamheid reportages en beschouwingen over Latijns-Amerika (1992) — Contributor — 6 copies
Maestros de la literatura universal. Tomo II: Latinoamérica — Contributor — 3 copies
Meesters der vertelkunst : zevenenderdig verhalen uit de moderne wereldliteratuur (1975) — Contributor — 2 copies
I'm the One You're Looking For [1988 film] — Author — 2 copies
The Summer of Miss Forbes [TV episode] — Author — 1 copy
Oitenta, Vol. 6 — Contributor — 1 copy
The Review of Conttemporary Fiction: Number VIII, #2 — Contributor — 1 copy
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- García Márquez, Gabriel
- Legal name
- García Márquez, Gabriel José de la Concordia
- Other names
- Márquez, Gabriel García
- Birthdate
- 1927-03-06
- Date of death
- 2014-04-17
- Burial location
- Cremated
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- Colombia
- Birthplace
- Aracataca, Magdalena, Colombia
- Place of death
- Mexico City, Mexico
- Cause of death
- pneumonia
- Places of residence
- Bogotá, Colombia
Mexico City, Mexico - Education
- boarding school (Barranquilla ∙ Colombia)
Liceo Nacional (Zipaquirá)
National University of Colombia (Law ∙ Journalism)
Universidad de Cartegena - Occupations
- journalist
reporter
novelist - Relationships
- García, Rodrigo (son)
Vargas Llosa, Mario (student) - Organizations
- El Heraldo newspaper (reporter, editor)
El Universal newspaper (reporter, editor)
Barranquilla Group (member)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Foreign Honorary, Literature, 1974)
Fundacion para un Nuevo Periodismo Iberoamericano (FNPI), President - Awards and honors
- scholarship (Liceo Nacional)
Neustadt International Prize for Literature (1972)
Nobel Prize (Literature ∙ 1982)
Man Booker International Prize Finalist (2005)
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THE DEEP ONES: "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" by Gabriel García Márquez in The Weird Tradition (February 27)
Gabriel García Márquez dies, aged 87 in South American Fiction-Argentine Writers (June 2014)
GROUP READ --- "Love in the time of the cholera" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez in The 12 in 12 Category Challenge (June 2012)
1001 Group Read: 100 Years of Solitude in 1001 Books to read before you die (July 2011)
Group Read: 100 Years of Solitude in Club Read 2011 (July 2011)
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Until August by Gabriel García Márquez (translated by Anne McLean) revolves around forty-six-year-old Ana Magdalena Bach and her annual visits (on the 16th of August) to the island where her mother is buried. Ana’s itinerary includes a visit to the cemetery where she places a bouquet of her mother’s favorite flowers and indulges in a one-night stand with a different man every year before she returns to her family – her musician husband of over two decades and her two adult children. One of her trysts ends in a humiliating gesture and she carries both the emotional and physical reminder of the same through the years. Every visit to the island and her experiences with the men she meets inspires her to reflect on her actions, her marriage and her family. In sparse prose we are given insight into her motivations, her internal conflict and her desire in a journey of self- explorations with a thought-provoking ending.
A departure (in terms of theme and approach) from the nature of Gabriel García Márquez’s more famous works, this is not the author at his best but for those of us who have enjoyed the author’s work in the past, it won’t be difficult to appreciate the segments that shine with author’s brilliant writing. Sparse prose, But sadly, that is all we can expect from this short novella. I have no doubt had this manuscript been developed into a full-length novel with well-fleshed-out characters, and their motivations and relationships explored deeper; this would have been a worthy addition to the author’s oeuvre.
Please read the Preface to the novel where the author’s sons discuss their decision to publish this novella posthumously despite his wishes to discard the draft manuscript. A segment of this novella (translated by Edith Grossman) was previously published (1999) in the form of a short story.
I appreciate the publisher including printed pages from the author’s unfinished manuscript in the end pages of the hardcover edition. This in itself makes this a copy I will cherish as a part of my personal collection just like my treasured hardback edition of Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky that includes similar material between its covers.
- Do I regret reading this book? No
- Do I think this unfinished manuscript should have been published as a novella? Probably not.
- Am I happy that I could read part of what could have been another masterpiece written by one of
my favorite authors? Absolutely
Many thanks to Knopf for the gifted copy. All opinions expressed in this review are my own.
Note: The short story Meeting in August (translated by Edith Grossman) was published in the December 6, 1990 issue of The New Yorker Magazine and is available in the Archives section.… (more)