For us, the world is not made of atoms but of stories. This story is told through a Colombian birth, where one of the most prominent writers of the 20th century in Latin America was raised: Gabriel García Márquez. A man who took part in history and shaped it to be told in mythical forms and poetic expressions.
“Life is not what one lived, but what one remembers and how one remembers it in order to tell it” from Living to Tell It.
He was born in a small town in Magdalena, and was raised by his maternal grandparents and aunts; his parents had chosen Sucre as their new home, to settle down and continue their lineage. His grandfather, a war veteran, was one of the main drivers of the writer's creativity; many stories of battle and struggle were told to him in childhood while he was growing up. His relatives had the wonderful gift of fluency in telling stories and this was obviously passed on to Gabriel García Márquez.
As a reporter and journalist, he had the opportunity to travel around the world, immerse himself in cinema, art and other cultures. He was in Europe and survived in Paris under difficult economic conditions; he married in 1958 in Barranquilla and was the father of two children.
His talent for telling stories led him to elevate the literary movement of Latin America to a global level, and not in vain, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982, the gratifying result of beautiful works such as One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) and Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981), among many others.
Gabriel García Márquez and the wonderful Macondo
One of the main contributions of his narrative and writing, characterized by that magical realism, is precisely Macondo, that mysterious town where the Buendías sheltered their descendants in One Hundred Years of Solitude , and which would be present in the creation of other works such as La Hojarasca, El Coronel no tiene quien le escriba and Vivir para contarla.
The most striking thing about his writing is the way his narratives blend with the reader's emotions. In fact, he once said that Macondo did not refer to a physical place, but to an emotional state that allowed people to see things in their own way, transforming them and making them their own. His magic was precisely that, knowing how to introduce feelings and emotions into people, through unforgettable worlds and stories.
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Biography.
In the text: (Biografiasyvidas.com, 2018)
Bibliography: Biografiasyvidas.com. (2018). Gabriel García Márquez. Biography. . [online] Available at: https://www.biografiasyvidas.com/reportaje/garcia_marquez/ [Accessed 3 Apr. 2018].
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A CENTURY, TEN STORIES: GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ
In the text: (Bbc.co.uk, 2018)
Bibliography: Bbc.co.uk. (2018). A century, ten stories: Gabriel García Márquez . [online] Available at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/spanish/seriemilenio03.htm [Accessed 3 Apr. 2018].
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez. In the shadow of the Patriarch
In the text: (Letras Libres, 2018)
Bibliography: Letras Libres. (2018). Gabriel García Márquez. In the Shadow of the Patriarch . [online] Available at: http://www.letraslibres.com/mexico-espana/gabriel-garcia-marquez-la-sombra-del-patriarca [Accessed 3 Apr. 2018].
