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GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ
 Gabriel Jose de la Concordia Garcia Marquez

Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez (American Spanish: [ɡaˈβɾjel ɣaɾˈsi.a ˈmaɾkes]
(About this soundlisten);[1] 6 March 1927 – 17 April 2014) was a Colombian novelist, short-
story writer, screenwriter and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo [ˈɡaβo] or Gabito [ɡa
ˈβito] throughout Latin America. Considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th
century and one of the best in the Spanish language, he was awarded the 1972 Neustadt
International Prize for Literature and the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature.[2] He pursued a self-
directed education that resulted in his leaving law school for a career in journalism. From early
on, he showed no inhibitions in his criticism of Colombian and foreign politics. In 1958, he
married Mercedes Barcha; they had two sons, Rodrigo and Gonzalo.[3]

García Márquez started as a journalist, and wrote many acclaimed non-fiction works and short
stories, but is best known for his novels, such as One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), The
Autumn of the Patriarch (1975), and Love in the Time of Cholera (1985). His works have
achieved significant critical acclaim and widespread commercial success, most notably for
popularizing a literary style known as magic realism, which uses magical elements and events in
otherwise ordinary and realistic situations. Some of his works are set in the fictional village of
Macondo (mainly inspired by his birthplace, Aracataca), and most of them explore the theme of
solitude.
 Three
Literary
Works
 One Hundred Years of Solitude
One hundred Years of Solitude follows the epic of the foundation,greatness and decline of the
fictitious village of Macondo and its pioneering and most illustrious family,the Buendias,who
live their lives struggling against failings of the Colombian republic and the ordeals of fate,time
and existence.One Hundreds Years of Solitude is a work of giant,epic theatre,where my myths
engender men who in turn generate myths,like in Homer,Cervantes and Rabelais.It is a
chronicle of an isolated microcosm of life and society,with its fabulous genesis and
apocalypse.The story of the
village and the descendants of
the Buendias,from foundation to
extinction,is the heart of a
wonderfully magical and poetic
tale,one that is almost
unparalleled in both its unbridled
fantasy and the captivating style
of its extraordinary
author.Macondo is the ultimate
example of the modern world,a
world of infinite possibilities for
both enrichment and
destruction,and one in which
time passes in a peculiar,cylical
way.Until the end its characters
appear unbridled fantasy and the
captivating style of its
extraordinary author.Macondo is
the ultimate examp;e of the
modern world,a world of infinite
possibilities for both enrichment
and destruction,and one in which
time passes in peculiar,cylical
way.Until the end its characters appear inextricably complicit in this process,because of the
“facts which nobody believes but had affected their lives so that they were both drifting on the
surf of a bygone world that lived only nostalgia”.
 Of love and Other Demons
In 1942,during building works in Latin American convent,the remains of
a teenager Sierva Maria de Todos los Amgeles were unearthed.Her
splendid hair measured 22 meters.This strange discovery,real or
imaginary,is the starting point of a unique love story, in the joyous
colorful and decadent Cartagena in the mid-18th century.The only
daughter of the Marquis of Casalduero,Sierva Maria was 12 when
bitten by an ash-colored dog with a white moon on its
forehead.Suspected of diabolic possession,she locked in a convent by
the Inquisition,where she lives with here exorcist,Don Cayetano
Delaura,and embarks on an insane romance,passionate,destructive
and,obviously,cursed.