Gabriel Garcia Marquez | Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Jan.04.2013
"Yo soy americano," I said to Sonia Fava. I did not realize that my accent (North American English-speaking to the core) was terrible. The "R", for example, in "americano" had no trill of any kind and therefore marked me as an arriviste hick. This was my first class in the Spanish language with...
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Mar.09.2012
Kundera has said of Gabriel García Márquez: "In One Hundred Years of Solitude there are no scenes. They are completely diluted in the drunken flood of narration."
I ache to return to my own drunken flood.
Yesterday I recieved a "pass" from Tin House for Portugal, consequently I sent it...
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Dec.08.2011
This is an exercise that I've done with a couple of different classes. I gave out a version of this at AWP a couple of years ago, and someone was just asking me about it again, so I thought I’d share it more widely. This can be done either alone or in a group; it's one of the best exercises I know...
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Dec.10.2010
After rumors of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's sensitive health issues began to circulate around the Internet several years ago, readers worldwide began to fear the great Nobel Laureate (1982) had written and published his final books. Videos posted on YouTube featured a "farewell note"...
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Nov.03.2010
Going Bovine
Libba Bray
young adult
Bray knows her characters. The medley of sixteen year old underachiever/loser guy to talking garden gnome cast she creates is a fun romp to read through. Which is good because this is a looooooooooooong book. Very long. 480 pages long.
I know. I know. I...
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Sep.25.2010
My long-term romance with the idea that literary movements define and bookmark significant heroic moments in cultural history began long before I understood who or what had stolen my heart. Yet it seems to have been there for at least as long as earlier adolescent passions for playing football or...
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Jan.31.2010
A QUAKER CHILD EATS BOOKS:
A friend commented on Facebook on my last post (which was about Quakers and plain dress): "But clothing is alive!!"
No response could have pleased me more. I have a vaguely articulated theory that any art form--and I include human adornment--is like a vessel...
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Jan.28.2010
I remember arguing with my Brazilian mother that Latin Americans could not write literature, otherwise we would have read Latin American writers in school. She pointed out the genius of Camoes and Fernando Pessoa, but I was still not convinced that these archaic writers represented the genious of...
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Dec.07.2009
Surely Gabriel García Márquez is the author of some of the oddest books ever.
His Love In The Time of Cholera (my particular favorite) features a man named Florentino Ariza who has been waiting for fifty-one years, nine months and four days for the love of his life, Fermina Daza, to get rid...
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Dec.03.2009
My Book Recommendation – One Hundred Years Of Solitude Title: One Hundred Years of Solitude
Author: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Paperback: 432 pages
Publisher: Penguin (2 Aug 2007)
Language English
ISBN-10: 014103243X
ISBN-13: 978-0141032436
Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 3 cm
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