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Loading... Gabriel Garcia Marquez: A Life (2009)by Gerald Martin
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. 《百年孤寂》是一本傳奇般的著作,然而其作者馬奎斯的一生就是這傳奇的本身。這本書無疑是一本鉅著,馬汀在書中為我們展現了馬奎斯一生的行跡,試圖在其中找尋馬奎斯各個重要著作的產生軌跡與故事源頭,為我們揭開了哪些傳奇著作背後的故事。 書中馬奎斯的生平與拉丁美洲與世界局勢的變遷緊密結合。如同霍布斯邦回憶錄可說是一部個人的歐洲現代史,馬奎斯的這本傳記也有如此的格局,而這當然源自馬奎斯廣闊不凡的一生。但作者能夠駕馭這些資料亦是不易之事。 整體而言,這本書是值得給予四顆星的著作。但因為他的翻譯我只能給三顆星。全書翻譯專有名詞有時譯者自創,有時用約定成俗譯法,但全然不附上原文,乃至於連對照表都沒有。更不要說幾乎沒有譯註提供背景資料(地理、歷史、人物)的補充。凡此種種,都使的這本書的中譯價值受損不少。雖然有些地方似乎沒有依中文文法調整。雖然翻譯如此厚重的著作,本非易事,大體而言翻譯仍算通順,譯者苦勞,不可抹滅。但與左岸出版的霍布斯邦自傳周全先生的翻譯相較,卻大為失色。 «No me ha sido fácil sortear las múltiples versiones que García Márquez ha ido sembrando a propósito de todos los momentos determinantes de su vida...» García Márquez dijo una vez «todo escritor con un mínimo de dignidad debería tener un biógrafo inglés». Ahora él ya tiene el suyo. Por fin, la biografía definitiva y tolerada de una figura fascinante, como persona y como escritor. Una obra extraordinaria fruto de más de dieciocho años de trabajo, en la que desfilan sus amistades políticas y literarias: Castro, González, Clinton, Cortázar, Vargas-Llosa y Carmen Balcells entre muchos otros; y se dibujan sus trayectos vitales: Colombia, París, Barcelona, México. Es una biografía definitiva que ha contado con la colaboración del genial escritor colombiano. Surprisingly, this is one of my favorite biographies read so far. It has to be the subject matter. Like other biographies that spend an inordinate amount of time setting the stage (political and socially) or produce pages and pages of mini biographies of the subject's great-great-great grandparents Martin does bog down with those details in the beginning. His focus is not primarily on Gabriel Garcia Marquez but rather the myriad of family members from both his mother's and father's sides of the family. I got lost trying to keep the just cousins straight. Forget about all the drama that went with them! But, aside from that reading about Marquez's life was fascinating. Martin took 17 years to research his subject and it shows. Probably my favorite aspect of the biography is the parallels Martin makes between Marquez's life and his art. Martin doesn't miss an opportunity to make note of people in Marquez's life who eventually became characters in his books later. I have a deeper understanding of where the soul of One Hundred Years of Solitude came from. no reviews | add a review
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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. No library descriptions found. |
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