Gabriel Garcia Marquez Has Died
His fictional works – among them Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Love in the Time of Cholera, and Autumn of the Patriarch – outsold everything published in Spanish except the Bible.
He won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1982.
Sad we lost someone with such great talent, but happy that he shared his talent w/ the world. May Gabriel rest in peace.
ReplyDeleteLove in the Time of Cholera was one of the best works written in the 80s and he will be greatly missed. RIP.
ReplyDeleteMy favourite author. him and Ernesto Sabato. Rest in peace
ReplyDeleteHe was brilliant ….RIP
ReplyDeleteGood writer, massive assholy person. May his friend fidel follow him and RIP soon.
ReplyDeletelaura, I've never heard of Ernesto Sabato, and I'm a lit girl! Looks like he hasn't been translated into English that much. As for Marquez, RIP, one of the Greats.
ReplyDeleteHe was one of my favorites as well. I was introduced to his work in college. May he rest in peace.
ReplyDeleteRIP. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteRIP.
ReplyDeleteAnyone who has not experienced One Hundred Years of Solitude: you won't regret it, I promise. An incredible, humbling, fantastical work of art that affected me as no other book ever has. And, no, you're not crazy, you really are reading all the mystical realism (weird, magical shit happens throughout the book and no one bats a lash). You get used to it and it is awesome.
ReplyDeleteMy mother had not read a book -- literally, not a single book -- in almost forty years when I recommended it to her. She called me crying when she finished it, going on about how good it was and she didn't want it to be over.
Just make sure your copy has a family tree on the inside cover. Trust.
Que Dios te bendiga. Viva Colombia!!
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