Todos los cuentos (All the Stories) [NOOK Book]

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9788415028956
  • Publisher: Palabras Mayores
  • Publication date: 8/10/2010
  • Language: Spanish
  • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
  • Format: eBook
  • Sales rank: 18,966
  • File size: 459 KB
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9788415028956
  • Publisher: Palabras Mayores
  • Publication date: 8/10/2010
  • Language: Spanish
  • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
  • Format: eBook
  • Sales rank: 18,966
  • File size: 459 KB

Meet the Author

Gabriel García Márquez
Gabriel García Márquez
A chief practitioner of the "magic-realist" style, Gabriel García Márquez's influence and importance lie in his crucial role of bringing Latin-American fiction to wider audiences while pioneering it at the same time. The Colombian-born Nobel winner tells fantastical tales of romance and heroism against an historic Latin American backdrop, always infusing believability by giving his writing a journalistic cast.

Biography

Gabriel García Márquez is the product of his family and his nation. Born in the small coastal town of Aracataca in northern Colombia, he was raised by his maternal grandparents. As a child, he was mesmerized by stories spun by his grandmother and her sisters -- a rich gumbo of superstitions, folk tales, and ghost stories that fired his youthful imagination. And from his grandfather, a colonel in Colombia's devastating Civil War, he learned about his country's political struggles. This potent mix of Liberal politics, family lore, and regional mythology formed the framework for his magical realist novels.

When his grandfather died, García Márquez was sent to Sucre to live (for the first time) with his parents. He attended university in Bogotá, where he studied law in accordance with his parents' wishes. It was here that he first read The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka and discovered a literature he understood intuitively -- one with nontraditional plots and structures, just like the stories he had known all his life. His studies were interrupted when the university was closed, and he moved back north, intending to pursue both writing and law; but before long, he quit school to pursue a career in journalism.

In 1954 his newspaper sent García Márquez on assignment to Italy, marking the start of a lifelong self-imposed exile from the horrors of Colombian politics that took him to Barcelona, Paris, New York, and Mexico. Influenced by American novelist William Faulkner, creator of the fictionalized Yoknapatawpha County, and by the powerful intergenerational tragedies of the Greek dramatist Sophocles, García Márquez began writing fiction, honing a signature blend of fantasy and reality that culminated in the 1967 masterpiece One Hundred Years of Solitude. This sweeping epic became an instant classic and set the stage for more bestselling novels, including Love in the Time of Cholera, Love and Other Demons, and Memories of My Melancholy Whores. In addition, he has completed the first volume of a shelf-bending memoir, and his journalism and nonfiction essays have been collected into several anthologies.

In 1982, García Márquez was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. In his acceptance speech, he called for a "sweeping utopia of life, where no one will be able to decide for others how they die, where love will prove true and happiness be possible, and where the races condemned to one hundred years of solitude will have, at last and forever, a second opportunity on earth." Few writers have pursued that utopia with more passion and vigor than this towering 20th-century novelist.

Good To Know

Gabriel José García Márquez' affectionate nickname is Gabo.

García Márquez' first two novellas were completed long before their actual release dates, but might not have been published if it weren't for his friends, who found the manuscripts in a desk drawer and a suitcase, and sent them in for publication.

    1. Also Known As:
      Gabriel José García Márquez
    2. Hometown:
      Mexico City, Mexico
    1. Date of Birth:
      March 6, 1928
    2. Place of Birth:
      Aracataca, Colombia
    1. Education:
      Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 1947-48, and Universidad de Cartagena, 1948-49

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  • Posted May 14, 2011

    Lo Recomiendo si te gusta la lectura seria.

    Tengo muchos anos de leer a Gabriel G. Marquez, si a veces quieres partir la realidad en cuentos y frases incoherentes pero comprensibles a tu mente de una forma rapida e inesperada, pero que duraran en tu interior espiritual inentendible para nadie mas pero tu solo, y si fueses un primer curioso lector hambriento de nuevos horizontes inexplicables de historias narradas en tiempos pasados pero aun aplicadas a tu realidad interna que nunca quieres o no puedes descubrir, entonces lee esta collecion de cuentos e historias, y aun mas lee sus libros, el efecto que tenga en ti no sera el mismo que tenga la realidad misma, eso lo garantizo, y eso es maravilloso como la vida misma.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 14, 2012

    Impresionante compendio. Grande, Gabo!

    Simplemente fantastico.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 29, 2011

    Relatos de un Maufragio

    Bueno, la verdad es que llevo solo un parde anos leyendo Garcia Marquez, pero estos anos me han servido para mostrarme el talen enorque que este escritor trae en si. Diria es que es uno de los mejores escritores de Latinoamerica. Les recomiendo este libro si no quieren comprar libros en separado. Este trae en si muchos cuentos, las mejores hobras. Sin embargo, si ustedes prefieren comprar por separado, pues me alegraria al verlo asi :) I love Garcia Marquez...

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  • Posted July 25, 2011

    :D

    Excelente autor. Me fascinan sus cuentos.

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