Gabriel Garcia

Marquez
Alvarez | Garcia | Geronimo | Ignacio | Pedalizo - GROUP 3
 Who is Gabriel
Garcia Marquez?
Life of Gabriel Garcia Marquez

● Born on March 6, 1927 in Aracataca, Colombia

● Eldest out of 12
● Lived with grandparents for 8 years
● Scholar at Jesuit Liceo Nacional
● He graduated Law in Universidad Nacional De Colombia
● Chose to become a Journalist
● Exiled to Europe in 1954
● First Novel published in 1955
● Married in 1958 to Mercedes Barcha Pardo
Life of Gabriel Garcia Marquez

● Awarded Nobel Prize in 1982

● In 1999 he was diagnosed with Lymphoma
● He on 2014 in Mexico City at the age of 87
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Aracataca, Colombia

- Lived in the 20th century during

the era of: Spanish flu pandemic,
World War I and World War II.
- García Márquez’s novelistic world
is mostly that of the province of
Colombia.
- Macondo
- La Violencia
Major Works
 No One Writes to the Colonel
“No One Writes to the Colonel” is a novel
written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez on
1961.

This novel is about an elderly colonel

during the Colombian martial law with
his asthmatic wife.

The novel focused on corruption, hope

and despair and solitude.
This novella is about an elderly colonel in Colombia waiting for years for a pension,
promised in return for his giving up his revolutionary fight during a time of martial law and
has a asthmatic wife.

Their son, Augustin, is presumed dead, killed for passing out subversive literature at a
cockpit.

The colonel and his wife possess a rooster who is doted on by the other villagers. The
townspeople are saving their money to bet on the rooster.

The colonel’s livelihood is all depend on their rooster.

Eventually, circumstances conspire to lead the colonel to choose the rooster’s well-being
over his wife, with the result that when she asks what will they eat while the rooster is eating
real food, he tells her that they will eat “shit.”
 Love in the Time of Cholera
“Love in Time of Cholera” is a novel written in
1985 by G. G. Marquez

This novel took place in a port city near the

Carribean from 1880 to around 1930.

Some aspects of the environment mentioned

in the novel are the city’s steamy and sleepy
streets, rat-infested sewers, slave quarters,
decaying colonial architecture and
multifarious inhabitants.

The book revolves on themes of love, cholera

illness, class, sex, letters and old age or decay.
The main characters of the novel are Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza. Florentino and Fermina fall in love in their
youth. But once Fermina's father, Lorenzo Daza, finds out about the two, he forces his daughter to stop seeing
Florentino immediately. When she refuses, he and his daughter move in with his deceased wife's family in another
city. Upon her return, Fermina realizes that her relationship with Florentino was nothing but a dream since they are
practically strangers; she breaks off her engagement to Florentino and returns all his letters.

A young and accomplished national hero, Dr. Juvenal Urbino, meets Fermina and begins to court her. Despite her
initial dislike of Urbino, Fermina gives in to her father's persuasion and the security and wealth Urbino offers, and they
wed.
Even after Fermina's engagement and marriage, Florentino swore to stay faithful and wait for her; but his
promiscuity gets the better of him and he has hundreds of affairs.

As an elderly man, Urbino attempts to get his pet parrot out of his mango tree, only to fall off the ladder he
was standing on and die. After the funeral Florentino proclaims his love for Fermina once again and tells her
he has stayed faithful to her all these years. Fermina comes to recognize Florentino's wisdom and maturity,
eventually gives him a second chance, and their love is allowed to blossom during their old age.
 One Hundred Years of Solitude
● A landmark novel written in 1967 by Gabriel Garcia
Marquez

● It is considered as the author’s masterpiece and is

one of the supreme achievements in literature.

● In this work Marquez writes about the

multi-generational story of the Buendia family on the
discoveries of a fictitious town of Macondo, which is
mainly found by Jose Arcadio Buendia.
 This novel talks about the history of the isolated town of Macondo and
of the family who found it, the Buendias. For years, the town has no contact
with the outside world, except for gypsies who occasionally visit peddling
technologies. The patriarch of the family, Jose Arcadio Buendia is impulsive
and inquisitive. He remains a leader who is also deeply solitary, alienating
himself from other men in his obsessive investigations into mysterious
matters.
 Of Love and Other Demons

● Published in 1994

● Marquez claims that the novel is a fictional

representation of a legend about a young
girl, who had rabies but was believed to be
a “miracle worker”, with long flowing
copper hair that continues to grow after
death.
- This novel talks about the tragic story of - As when father Cayetano Delaura was

Sierva Maria, an only child from a about to perform her exorcism, he falls

decaying noble family. Within a south in love with her. He confessed this

American seaport in the 18th Century, affair to the bishop, but the bishop

she was bitten by a rabid dog on her takes father Delaura off the case and

12th birthday and was believed to be the bishop took over the exorcism

possessed, then she was brought to a himself, and through violent process,

convent for observation. Sierva passes away.

 How differently did the drowned
Question man affect the men and women
of the island? What does this tell
you?
How differently did the drowned man affect the men and women of the island? What does this tell you?

When the drowned man arrived, the men brought him in and formed their first impressions—he was taller
than all the other men and could have weighed almost as much as a horse. The women of the village
tended to the unidentified corpse while the men sailed to neighboring villages. As they do, they realize
the magnificence of the drowned man and created an idealization of him. They were both surprised and
in awe of him as they cleaned him off of the trace of the sea. The women gladly made his pants and a
shirt from this adoration but later realized how it must have been for the drowned man to live in such a
figure. Their simple awe had turned into pity and empathy. The men returned and delivered the news that
the drowned man was not from the neighboring villages. The women were delighted and triumphant of
this news, but the men had opposite reactions. They thought it was bothersome and improvised a way to
getting rid of the corpse while the others made more fuss over it. They were annoyed and astounded by
the women's reaction towards it until they saw his face and were left breathless in the end.

This tells us that people, whilst having different initial reactions, are naturally intuitive, curious and
compassionate.
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