Gabriel Garcia Marquez: The Early Years ebook

by Ilan Stavans

Itâ?s unfortunate for Ilan Stavans that Gerald Martinâ?s biography of Colombian Nobel laureate Gabriel GarcÃa MÃ¡rquez was published so recently â? and was so much better. Gabriel Garcia Marquez The Early Years.

Gabriel García Márquez. GABRIEL GARCíA MÁRQUEZ. This book is the story of how Gabriel García Márquez-a middle-class costeño from Colombia’s Caribbean coast, a law-school dropout with strong literary aspirations, whose career in journalism included stints at some of the major newspapers of Barranquilla, Cartagena, and Bogotá, and whose left-leaning views put him at odds with the dictatorship of General Gustavo Rojas Pinilla (1953–57)-. came to write a masterpiece that, almost in a single stroke, reconfigured the cultural map of Latin America in the second half of the twentieth century.

Gabriel Garc?a M?rquez : The Early Years. Since falling under the spell of One Hundred Years of Solitude by the Colombian writer, and Nobel Prize winner, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, a dozen years ago, I have waited for a kind of key into its foundations and obscurities. I still recall my stunned and almost intoxicated response to its first sentence. I read the book in one sitting, as have so many others, and have reread it many times since.

Lavinia Stan a. a St. Francis Xavier University, Canada. By Ilan Stavans, The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms, 17:4, 563-563. Version of record first published: 25 Jun 2012. To cite this article: Lavinia Stan (2012): Gabriel Garcia Marquez: The Early Years.

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ing agencies, among them J. Walter Thompson. In the words of a journalist who met him at the time, he was stocky, but light on his feet, with a bristling mustache, a cauliflower nose, and many fillings in his teeth. He wears an open sport shirt, faded blue jeans, and a bulky jacket flung over his shoulders. 1 People were impressed by his unpretentiousness.

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Reading Ilan Stavans's Gabriel Garcia Marquez, The Early Years, I was reminded of Chekhov's observation .

Reading Ilan Stavans's Gabriel Garcia Marquez, The Early Years, I was reminded of Chekhov's observation that if you write a story about a man, a woman, and a beetle, the story is always about a man and a woman. Ilan Stavans has given us a wondrous rendering of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, who always wanted to be a magician, and ended up creating a magical kingdom in a tiny Caribbean town. Stavans displays his own magical hand in this muscular portrait of Garcia Marquez as a young man. -Jerome Charyn, author of The Secret Life Emily Dickinson.

Gabriel García Márquez book. It's been interesting to see the wide variety of responses to Ilan Stavan's Gabriel Garcia Marquez, The Early Years, around the Internet. I one of those who enjoyed both the historic perspective and the personal passion that Stavans brings to the book.

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This long-awaited biography provides a fascinating and comprehensive picture of García Márquez's life up to the publication of his classic 100 Years of Solitude. Based on nearly a decade of research, this biographical study sheds new light on the life and works of the Nobel Laureate, father of magical realism, and bestselling author in the history of the Spanish language. As García Márquez's impact endures on well into his ninth decade, Stavans's keen insights constitute the definitive re-appraisal of the literary giant's life and corpus. The later part of his life will be covered in a second book.

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The cover of Gabriel Garcia Marquez: The Early Years depicts a broken open pomegranate with its juice-laden seeds of a rich balaustine color. These brilliant red kernels, all bursting from one rind are potent imagery that can be likened to the fruits of a great writer who who may write many stories and novels but which all in some way promote one essential message. Garica Marquez once told someone, " 'a writer writes only one book, although the same book may appear in several volumes under different titles.' " Ilan Stavans, the prize-winning author or this brief look at Garcia Marquez (it is incomplete and impolite, Stavans writes, use only the final name, Marquez), is willing to run with that thesis. Stavans, who considers Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude to be one of only two Spanish-language masterpieces that "radically revamped our understanding of Hispanic civilization", shows that the make-believe town in the novel, Macondo, and its myriad characters are the culmination of years of percolation in Garcia Marquez's mind and in his previous published and unpublished writings. Stavans also makes the case that ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE was an inspired work: as Coleridge was divinely inspired to put down the lines of "Kubla Khan" so Garcia Marquez was inspired to pen, in eighteen months, this masterwork. However, Stavans suggests, "His inspiration didn't come from a divine source but from the injustice that surrounded him."

So, has Stavans written a biography or a literary criticism? Some of both. His own great admiration for ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE, which he read in a 24-hour marathon session when he was in his early twenties and calls his "aleph", has fired this synthesis of Garcia Marquez's work and life. By and large, Stavans is successful in this mission, although the attempted portrait of Garcia Marquez, the man, sometimes recedes into the enthusiasm with which Stavans analyzes his literary history and his creations.

Perhaps the most interesting chapter is "Sleepless in Macondo" which includes a lengthy excerpt from the earlier edition of The Dictionary of Imaginary Places: The Newly Updated and Expanded Classic, describing Macondo if one one could really enter it. Stavans adds, "After reading the novel, one feels that the town isn't an escapist's dream but is within reach. And its metabolism, in my view, carries in it the DNA of Latin America."

GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ: THE EARLY YEARS will be more comprehensible to those thoroughly familiar with ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE and who are Spanish speakers (the latter because some Spanish phrases and titles are not translated into English). But these prerequisites are not mandatory for enjoyment and enlightenment. Stavans does give an early summary of the great novel: "[It] is about memory and forgetfulness, about the trials and tribulations of capitalism in a colonial society, about European explorers in the New World, about the clash of science and faith, about matriarchy as an institution...." There's more. And, of course, he discusses various aspects of it throughout the book. But he also provides insightful elucidation about the literary process, publishing, literature (South American and other), politics, human nature, and about Garcia Marquez's unique ability to create alchemy. For all these reasons, this is a very worthwhile read.

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Many biographies can be read and enjoyed thoroughly without actually being familiar with the subject's work. This is often true whether the subject is a historical figure, or an artist or even a writer (whose work is usually much more easily and directly available).

"Gabriel Garcia Marquez: The Early Years" is not that biography. Yes, it goes into considerable detail about the author's life from an early age. Ilan Stavans is meticulous in showing the parallels between Marquez's life, interests and the places he knew, and his book which is already an acknowledged masterpiece in world literature. This is not easy research to do (and is complicated by straddling cultures), and is even more difficult to weave together into coherent, interesting and insightful prose.

Stavans has pulled all this research together in a way that makes "Early Years" a great gift for anyone who loves the novel--or even to anyone who plans to read it soon for the first time. For readers like me who were unfamiliar with many of the historical and cultural references that are so important to Marquez, this is an essential companion to the novel. It explains so much that will be unfamiliar to most American readers that, seeing this book now (after reading "One Hundred Years of Solitude" twenty years ago), it seems inconceivable to me that I could ever have understood much about the novel.

This would be a fine book to read first if you plan to read "One Hundred Years" soon after. Or, to read them together. But it is not really the biography I would choose to learn about Marquez himself, his feelings and inner response to the personal events that shaped him. Insofar as he has put those into his novel, THAT still remains his best "biography". And insofar as one can have (and wants to read) a biography of a book, not a man, "Gabriel Garcia Marquez: The Early Years", is that book

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Ilan Stavans, a professor of Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College, has created a fascinating portrait of Garcia Marquez and his years leading up to the publication of his opus "One Hundred Years of Solitude."

I have been a Gabriel Garcia Marquez fan since I read "One Hundred Years of Solitude" many years ago. Stavans recounts how the early life of Garcia Marquez shaped him and gave him the inspiration to pen an astounding book.

Garcia Marquez was raised in Aracataca, Columbia by his maternal grandparents. His grandfather, Nicolás Ricardo Márquez Mejía, was reputed to be a great storyteller. Because many of his formative years were spent with his grandfather, many of his political and ideological views were informed by his grandfather's stories. Likewise, his grandmother, Doña Tranquilina Iguarán, a woman who believed in the supernatural, had a unique way of telling stories and influenced much of his writings.

When Garcia Marquez was eight years old, his grandfather died. He joined his parents and a younger brother who were living in Barranquilla. He eventually studied law at the University of Cartagena and honed his journalistic skills. He joined other writers in the Barranquilla Group and that provided inspiration and support for his literary efforts. "One Hundred Years of Solitude" was the product of those early years and it earned Garcia Marquez a Nobel Prize.

Garcia Marquez's early history is compelling and Stavans' book amply illustrates that history. It is well worth the time spent reading it.