Gabriel Garcia
Marquez
a Colombian novelist, shortstory writer, screenwriter
and journalist.
He considered one of
the most significant
authors of the 20th
century
Columbia
García Márquez
• born March 6, 1927
• García Márquez is affectionately known
as "Gabo" throughout Latin America.
• His works have achieved significant
critical acclaim and widespread
commercial success, most notably for
popularizing a literary style labeled as
magical realism, which uses magical
elements and events in otherwise ordinary
and realistic situations.
• Some of his works are set in a fictional village
called Macondo, and most of them express the
theme of solitude.
• Critics often describe the language that García
Márquez's imagination produces as visual or
graphic, and he himself explains each of his
stories is inspired by "a visual image,"
“Death Constant Beyond Love”
• In this crisis, the senator is reduced to a basic
and instinctual existence, expressed in Garcia
Marquez's recurrent themes of solitude, love,
arid death.
• His destiny is to be liberated from some
illusions but not all; his final delusion is to try
to hide from death in erotic love.
• The senator's defeat at the end, which is clearly
emphasized as a defeat suggests that his
response was a futile
• [Marquez emphasizes that it was a] retreat,
and—at the same time that it evokes pity for
his [the senator's] loneliness, terror, and rage-puts in question what that response should be
Sites Cited
• “A Genius Says Goodby” Daily Motion: When
he learned he was dying of Cancer Marquez
sent out this open letter now made into a
video:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xcp96r_agenius-says-goodbye-mr-gabriel-ga_people 13
May 2010.