Despre scriitorul Marquez vorbesc elocvent scrierile sale, 葯i pot spune c膬 le-am citit 卯n mare parte. Mi-a sc膬pat doar ultimul roman, Poveste t芒rfelor mele triste, dar nici nu m膬 卯nghesui s-o citesc. Magnum opus ( Un veac de singur膬tate, Toamna patriarhului, Dragostea 卯n vremea holerei, Generalul 卯n labirintul s膬u 葯.a) l-am citit 葯i chiar recitit cu mult膬 pl膬cere 葯i admira葲ie pentru artist. Gabo, omul, este foarte bine surprins de ,,biograful oficial,, ,Gerald Martin, 卯ntr-o carte care se cite葯te pe ner膬suflate. Documentarea,convorbirile at芒t cu scriitorul c芒t 葯i cu persoane din anturajul s膬u i-au permis lui Martin s膬 creioneze cu acurate葲e ,f膬r膬 patim膬, cine a fost copilul, t芒n膬rul, angajatul politic, so葲ul 葯i tat膬l Gabriel Garcia Marquez. V膬 las s膬 descoperi葲i singuri. Merit膬.
芦N茫o existe uma 煤nica linha nos meus livros que eu n茫o possa ligar a uma experi锚ncia real. H谩 sempre uma refer锚ncia a uma realidade concreta.禄 Gabriel Garc铆a Marques
Diz-se que talvez nenhum outro escritor moderno aborde na sua obra de forma t茫o consistente e ao mesmo tempo t茫o misteriosa a rela莽茫o entre verdade, fic莽茫o, verosimilhan莽a e sinceridade como GGM faz.
Viveu uma vida para a contar em milhares de p谩ginas.
Viveu uma vida com valor liter谩rio cheia de momentos emocionantes e de altos e baixos.
A alegria de viver e a alegria de escrever.
Uma escrita de qualidade, um talento inato.
Uma originalidade inquestion谩vel.
Da pobreza ao Pr茅mio Nobel.
Da mitol贸gica Macondo 脿 imortalidade.
A universalidade da sua obra e a inesquec铆vel primeira frase de Cem Anos de Solid茫o
芦Pode ser que lhe aconte莽a pensar, por exemplo, que j谩 de algum modo viveu, sonhou ou foi protagonista de uma ou outra das suas hist贸rias m谩gicas, ou que est谩 perante um sublime e verdadeiro 鈥渕entiroso鈥� da Literatura em que vale a pena acreditar.禄 Gerald Martin
Amazing, just amazing. Gerald Martin kept me reading, barely able to put this book down. I must, however, warn that this remarkable book is probably aimed for a couple of special audiences: First,the readers who are big fans of Garcia Marquez and who have read many of his works. I am one of those. I was intrigued by the many insights that Martin gave into the writings of this Nobel prize-winning author, and the experiences that led him to writing his magical realism stories. Second, the readers who are interested in Latin American politics. Garcia Marquez was a life-long socialist and close friend of Fidel Castro of Cuba and Marcos Perez Jimenez of Venezuela, as well as other world leaders of the left, becoming increasingly embroiled and influential in socialist politics as his fame grew. Gerald Martin has written an account so detailed that I am sure it will be a classic reference for both of these audiences.
鈥淎 good writer will go on writing even though his shoes need mending and his books don鈥檛 sell鈥� - an inspiring quote to sustain one through this huge book that traces Gabriel Garcia Marquez鈥檚 life from childhood to his sunset years. I thought it could have been subtitled 鈥淗ow to win the Nobel Prize when you come from the sticks.鈥�
Garcia Marquez (Gabo) lived in interesting times: through the rise and fall of Communism, through the rise and fall of the Violencia in his country, through the rise and fall of the drug cartels that don鈥檛 quite fall but seem to re-incarnate elsewhere in Latin America. He emerged during the Latin American Boom in literature along with Mario Vargas Llosa, Carlos Fuentes, Julio Cortaza and others, and rode that wave. His native Colombia was ruled by oligopolies that either supported the Conservatives or the Liberals, the only two political parties with clout in the country while the rest of Latin America was going socialist or communist. There was a geographic and cultural separation between the elites who lived in Colombia鈥檚 Andean capital, Bogota, and those who lived in the hot Caribbean Costa, Gabo鈥檚 playing ground, and he flipped back and forth between these two extremes many times.
His childhood and youth is the most interesting part of the book, for it illuminates what created this writer. He was the neglected oldest child, of a family of 11 children (15, if you count the illegitimate ones) raised by grandparents, in a place where families often had breeds of legitimate and illegitimate children living under the same roof. His father was a compulsive rake who was always struggling to get by and who re-invented himself in many jobs, finally using the title of 鈥淒r.鈥� Although his father wanted him to become a lawyer, Gabo was drawn to writing from a young age. He went through the typical writer鈥檚 grounding: a brutally rejected first novel; a journalistic career which initially paid a pittance before vaulting him into launching his own literary and political journals; living in different Latin countries from Spain, France, Mexico, Venezuela, Cuba, and in both regions of Colombia. When the novel that he risked everything for (food, shelter, belongings, even family), One Hundred Years of Solitude, hit the jackpot, his life changed from starving writer to literary star. The biography also takes a different trajectory from this point and focuses on Gabo鈥檚 growing influence, helped by his literary success, as a political middleman, often seen at the side of kings and presidents around the world. A traditionally shy man, he used his fame for effect, both to elevate his status as a writer and to further the causes he believed in. He particularly fought on the side of leftist dictators like Castro and was opposed to right-wing types like Pinochet. There is no doubt that his political connections earned him the Nobel, but then we have always questioned the symbolism that the Nobel represents: is it recognition in a field of endeavour, or is it a political statement pinned to a recipient who can give that message maximum mileage?
The book therefore teaches us two things: the evolution of Latin America from the 1920s to the turn of the 21st century, and the evolution of Gabo as a writer during that same period. Author Gerald Martin is careful to keep the focus mainly on Garcia Marquez the writer rather than on Garcia Marquez the politician, although one persona feeds the other and vice versa. As a writer we see Gabo鈥檚 focus being to draw material for his fiction from his life experiences, although his delivery is termed magic realism. Thus Macondo is his home town of Aracataca, the Patriarch is a fusion of Fidel Castro and himself, the Colonel is Gabo鈥檚 grandfather, the lovers in Love in the Time of Cholera are his parents, and so on. He also has a flirtation with cinema by writing and producing many forgettable movies that earn him a decent living but convinces him that script writing is a shallow art form over which he has no control. Thus after this foray, and many others that include politics and political journalism, he always returns to his literary writing where he is happiest. Many people die in this book, of natural causes and by assassination. Gabo鈥檚 own writings -鈥淔reedom of the press is only freedom of the bourgeoisie鈥�- against capitalism, American imperialism, and Colombian cartels, and his passionate defence of friend Fidel Castro make him a target, and when he returns to live in Colombia he is provided with a government bodyguard that rotates roughly 60 personnel during his sojourn there. He is even floored by a punch from former friend Mario Vargas Llosa in a public place. For a man who wrote continuously about death, who walked in its shadow during the times of the Violencia and PabloEscobar, and who beat cancer twice, Garcia Marquez always lived in the fear of death.
His post-Nobel life, after the whirlwind of adulation and homage, continues with winning books like Autumn of the Patriarch, Chronicle of a Death Foretold and Life in the Time of Cholera, but literary greats are also fallible, and he succumbs to the family curse: the onset of dementia. The edge goes out in subsequent work, and in his last, Memories of my Melancholy Whores, it starts to become visible - a pity because Melancholy Whores is his most personal, the story of a 90-year old man trying to regain the innocence of youth that was robbed off him by an older woman at the time; his answer: consort with a teenage girl. It was as if the aging Gabo was trying to recapture his innocence which was lost when his wily father had initiated him to sex in a whorehouse at the hands of an older prostitute.
The last chapter, in which Gabo reaches for immortality, is a bit much, and reads like his own magic realism. On the one hand it is a tribute to the literary hero who has bought the rich and powerful in the world to heel, on the other it sounds like sycophantic worship of a man elevated to Godhood, a fallible man who simply loved to write stories and hobnob with politicians to further his career.
A great book for aspiring writers to understand where the consummate artist can sometimes end up. It may not happen again in our lifetime, but it is refreshing to know that it did happen, and perhaps, with the right conditions and circumstances, could happen again.
Gerald Martin has taken on an outsized task in this book which defines Gabriel Garcia Marquez's long and complex life and his resulting outlook. It is obviously a labor of love, spanning almost 20 years.
The work is chronological, tracking his life and its synergistic literary output. Martin shows how GGM's novels illustrate the scenes, people and tenor of his unusual youth in a politically unstable county. GGM pulls from the experience of his home region which he never really leaves despite long departures and the purchase of foreign residences. He essentially marries the region in marrying Mercedes to whom he proposed in their adolescence. Despite their pre-marital differences in life experience, the marriage worked and still holds together after 50 years. Like the marriage, his life takes long and circuitous routes back home.
Martin takes the reader through what might be GGM's deepest thoughts as expressed through his novels and political writing. The saga covers continents and powerful international events. Over time, the early passion for socialism peels away. It is not expressed in words, but what else can be made of GGM having dictator friends who imprison and/or execute his intellectual colleagues? There is no real answer as to why he tolerates these leaders who trample on human rights, sometimes with their bank accounts full of the country's money. GGM points to the few he's used his influence to save, but the argument is weak considering the enormity of the rights violations of these leaders whom he supports.
There are many episodes that could be their own books (some have extensive treatment elsewhere as noted by Martin). A few are: his travels behind the Iron Curtain, the saga of the Nobel Prize, the Castro relationship, and the affect of his fame on his country, region and family.
The reader benefits not only from Martin's extensive research, but also from his understanding of Latin America and his specific knowledge of 20th century Colombian events. For the reader there are lots of names to lose track of, I was grateful for the index.
Several years ago GGM put his pen to the topic of his childhood and youth in "Living to Tell the Tale". The autobiography, like his novels, is atmospheric and metaphoric (Martin demonstrates that even the title is so). If you plan on reading it, I advise that you read Martin's biography first for orientation. If GGM's originally promised volumes 2 and 3 are ever produced (doubtful, given Martin's final chapters) Martin would be a good preparatory read for them as well.
I highly recommend this book for anyone with an interest in Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
This book is a life changer. Meet Gabo. He doesn鈥檛 want to become a writer because anything less than Cervantes is not worth it and great writers are not there anymore. He drops out of law school, spends a year living in a Parisian brothel leeching off the girls (a minor episode in a youth filled with visits to prostitutes and affairs). And he is not alone in his wayward youth- his main collaborators are friends from the 鈥楤arranquilla group鈥� - all destined to become some of the greatest artists and writers of their time. As he pursues his ambition he lives in absolute poverty, sleeping on benches, eating very little, evading people he owes money to. But even in such destitution the influences that would determine his later greatness are seeping in- Joyce, Faulkner, Hemingway and Virginia Woolf are making their way into his life. He forms a direct contrast with Mario Vargas Llosa 鈥� urbane, handsome, charismatic, educated, aristocratic. He rose earlier rise in the world of Spanish writers. He leads the onslaught of the 鈥楤oom Writers鈥� of Latin American writers even as Gabo, though talented, remains behind the arc lights of fame.
He presciently he predicts to his wife that he will write stories and when he is 40, he will write the book of his lifetime. And, on his way to a vacation with his family the first line of 鈥�100 years of Solitude鈥� comes to him, and with it the whole book. From here on his world is suffused with legends and mythologies of it鈥檚 own. As he writes out his great work, the secretary who is supposed to make clean copies the novel secretly steals each chapter of the book as it os finalized to discuss with a group she has formed at her home. After the book is released he has a halo of genius wherever he goes. As and his wife enter a theatre to watch a play, the spotlight shines on them and keeps following them till their seats. With fame comes political power, especially close relationships with Bill Clinton, Fidel Castro and a hundred other world leaders. Indira Gandhi, who told Fidel Castro that she was reading the book at the time, discussed bringing Gabo into international negotiations at the time.
So did he lobby for the Nobel? He probably did.
A deep and well researched book on a subject the writer had known intimately for decades. The value of this work can be determined by the fact that the subject eventually began to refer to the author as his 鈥榦fficial biographer鈥�.
Gerald Martin鈥檚 鈥淕abriel Garc铆a M谩rquez鈥� is a wonderful, highly partisan defense of the writings, political activities and fornicating of its subject. Although M谩rquez has described Martin as his official biographer, Martin says he was not an official biographer in that M谩rquez never actually reviewed Martin鈥檚 text. Martin does concede however that he was willing to bear the title on occasions when it provided access to key sources such as Fidel Castro. Martin also makes it clear that he accepted M谩rquez鈥檚 many lies at face value. Garcia Marquez was born in Aracataca a small town near the Caribbean coast of Columbia in 1927. His paternal grandfather Colonel Nicol谩s Ricardo M谩rquez had fought on the losing Liberal side of 鈥淕uerra de los Mil D铆as鈥� a Columbian civil war fought between October 1899 and November 1902. The Colonel would be the hero of Marquez鈥檚 life and the model for Colonel Aureliano Buend铆a the protagonist of 鈥�100 Years of Solitude鈥�. Marquez鈥檚 father, Gabriel Eligio Garc铆a Martinez was an utter scoundrel, a committed Conservative and much hated by his son. Gabriel Garc铆a M谩rquez for his entire life would subscribe to revolutionary Left-Wing politics and detest Columbian conservatives. 鈥�100 Years of Solitude鈥� tells the story of the family of Gabriel Garc铆a M谩rquez and the town of Aracataca (Mocondo in the novel). The climax is the massacre that occurred near Aracataca-Mocondo in 1927 of possibly as many as 2000 striking banana workers employed by the American United Fruit Company. The novel concludes with the extinction of the Buendia family. Martindescribes 鈥�100 Years of Solitude鈥� as being not an account of the family history of the author but a description of Marquez鈥檚 memories of his family history. The work鈥檚 eerie style which is referred to as 鈥淢agic-Realism鈥� proved to be wildly popular with both critics and the reading public. Its publication in 1967 instantly made Garc铆a M谩rquez an international celebrity. He would devote a large part of his time for the rest of his life promoting Left-Wing causes in Latin American most notoriously Castro鈥檚 communist regime in Cuba. Marquez wrote two more significant political novels 鈥淭he General in his Labyrinth鈥� (a fictionalized account of the last months in the life of Simon Bolivar) and 鈥淭he Autumn of the Patriarch鈥� (a novel about a generic 20th century Latin American dictator. In both cases, Martin鈥檚 praise is damning. In the 鈥淭he General in his Labyrinth鈥� Marquez fabricates similarities between the great hero Bolivar and Fidel Castro. 鈥淭he Autumn of the Patriarch鈥� incorporates elements from multiple Latin American dictators (Juan Vicente Gomez, Marcos Perez Jimenez, Porfirio Diaz, Manuel Estrada, Luis, Samoza, Anastasio Samoza, Anastasio Jr. Samoza, and Rafael Trujillo) but represents none of them accurately. Marquez鈥檚 final novel to be both a major critical and commercial success was 鈥淟ove in the Time of Cholera鈥� which tells the story of the love of the author鈥檚 long-suffering mother and his reprobate father. Martin applauds Marquez for writing a beautiful homage to love but questions whether the Marquez鈥檚 degenerate father indeed deserves to have been forgiven. Martin cites Kafka, Faulkner, Hemingway, Woolf and Dostoyevsky as major literary influences on Marquez. The decisive breakthrough for Marquez occurred after he moved to Mexico in 1961. In Mexico he became close to Carlos Fuentes who taught him to view himself as a Latin-American rather than as a Columbian. It was in Mexico that Marquez wrote 鈥�100 Years of Solitude鈥�. In the opinion of Martin, the novel was the great hit that it was because of its Latin-American rather than Columbian perspective. Some other GR reviewers have been distressed by the fact that most of the second half of Martin鈥檚 biography is devoted to politics. However, Martin makes it clear that Marquez was brought up to believe that politics came first. His grandfather served the Left as a miliary man. Marquez served it as a writer. After he became rich and famous, he devoted a great deal of his time and spent a large part of his money promoting the cause of Fidel Castro. For Marquez political militancy was not a hobby but an important duty. Once famous, Marquez proved remarkably adept at making friends in high places. In addition to Castro, he became friends with the following heads of state: Francois Mitterand, Lopez Portillo, Lopez Michelsen, Carlos Perez, Belisario Betancur Jack Lang, Felipe Gonzalez and Bill Clinton. His prime goals were to obtain support for Castro and to obtain releases for communist activists being held in detention in various countries around the world. Martin also provides ample details on the colourful sex life of Marquez who was a remarkable satyr. In the first half of the book, Martin constantly refers to social outings involving Marquez and his literary friends that end in brothels. In the second half of the book Martin mentions fewer such outings. Other GR reviewers which have suggested that Martin may have wished not to cause Marquez鈥檚 widow unnecessary pain. Martin does however give full attention to the occasion when Marquez was physically attacked at a public conference by Mario Vargas Llosa who believed that Marquez had been having an affair which his wife. Despite the focus of politics and whoring, Martin does not neglect the literary matters. He is thorough in his critiques of all Marquez鈥檚 works. He also has many insightful comments about the many authors that Marquez was friends with during his life: Alvaro Mutis, Mario Vargas Llosa, Julio Cortazar, Jos茅 Donoso, Juan Rulfo, Miguel Asturias and surprisingly Jorge Borges.
Amazing to read a biography that uses the first person as often as this one. Garc铆a M谩rquez's "officially tolerated" biographer is clearly a huge fan of his, but this only adds to the experience of Martin's book. In fact, when the seventy-year old Gabito finally refers a journalist's query to his "official" biographer, the delight on Martin's part is really touching.
How appropriate for the great writer that his biography should be so layered, and have so many amusing and novelistic moments, perhaps none more so than the ending, which would have to be the most moving last page of a biography I've ever read. Very Marquesian.
Much like its highly revered subject, Gerald Martin's biography of Gabriel Garcia Marquez is not without some serious flaws. The first 300 pages which chronicle the novelist's childhood, education, early career as journalist/columnist and travels through Europe and the Soviet Union are well enough handled, particularly the sections that detail the events which shape Garcia Marquez's socialist identity.
As the book progresses it becomes mired in political discourse which in Martin's hands spans a mile wide but only an inch deep. We are introduced to a parade of despots and el presidentes and it becomes clear that Garcia Marquez was infatuated with (or at least craved proximity to) men of power, and in his questionable attempted alliance with Fidel Castro his compassionate socialism is revealed as no match for the sinister hard-line ideologues that insulated the Cuban revolutionary. The two eventually became close friends as Garcia Marquez achieved world-wide fame, and explained away the compromised position he found himself in by befriending a dictator who executed thousands (including some of the writer's former friends) by suggesting his insider status enabled him to lobby for the release of a handful of condemned men.
All of this is handled with the slightest of criticism and there are too many loose threads for this to be in any real way insightful. Martin is far too close to his secretive subject, which is probably why Marquez's wife of fifty-plus years is respectfully unscrutinised and remains little more than a shadow in this biography. We actually learn much more about a tumultuous nine-month relationship he had while living in Paris before his marriage.
Martin's analyses of the novels, however, are excellent and it is for these that this book is eminently worthwhile and is likely what most readers are looking forward to when skimming through this book. Garcia Marquez was a brilliant novelist (although, interestingly, a poor scriptwriter and failed playwright) whose life deserves a more authoritative overview than what is presented here.
You may have thought GGM invented "magical realism" and made all that stuff up. It turns out, his novels and stories are basically documentaries of his own life. "Truth is stranger than fiction." Fascinating.
Uma biografia que 茅 tamb茅m uma viagem pelo s茅culo XX e pelo futuro, entrela莽ando a vida fascinante de Gabriel Garc铆a M谩rquez com a hist贸ria complexa da Col么mbia, a revolu莽茫o cubana, o ascender e decad锚ncia das esquerdas, e a realidade pol铆tica e liter谩ria latinoamericana.
脡 um livro bom de se ler, sobretudo para quem tem algum conhecimento do contexto pol铆tico colombiano e j谩 tenha passado pelas obras maestras de Gabo. Para cada uma, h谩 uma explica莽茫o do contexto que levou a e que rodeou a constru莽茫o da obra. Ainda assim, n茫o creio que ler esta biografia antes de ler algumas das obras diminua a qualidade da experi锚ncia de leitura, pelo contr谩rio, pode ajudar a compreende-las de maneira mais profunda.
Embora seja um trabalho de quase duas d茅cadas e com muito valor, senti que a biografia chega a ser repetitiva, e que n茫o conseguindo dar mais detalhes da vida pessoal e dos verdadeiros sentimentos de Gabo, provavelmente porque o pr贸prio escondia a sua vida privada, acaba por se prender muito em factos pol铆ticos e hist贸ricos, na an谩lise dos livros, e nas amizades de alto n铆vel que o biografado foi construindo.
A parte inicial sobre a inf芒ncia 茅 maravilhosa, sobretudo depois de ter visitado Aracataca recentemente. Achei especialmente comovente e curioso o momento em que GGM recebe o Nobel da Literatura. Aprendi bastante sobre as principais refer锚ncias da literatura latinoamericana da 茅poca. Se poderia ser melhor, provavelmente, mas 茅 uma biografia que vale a pena ser lida, e muito mais ainda, existir. (Fico ansiosamente a aguardar a biografia que Gerald Mart铆n est谩 a escrever de Mario Vargas Llosa.)
C鈥檈st une biographie totalement hagiographique alors que la vie de Gabo n鈥櫭﹖ait pas exempte de d茅fauts. Mais peu importe, le lecteur arrive 脿 faire la part des choses. Le tout est passionnant, car il y est question de la vie de l鈥橝uteur, mais aussi de l鈥檋istoire colombienne et plus encore de l鈥檋istoire latino-am茅ricaine au sein de son si猫cle, et quelle vie! Ca se lit comme un roman qui viendrait compl茅ter le passionnant Vivre pour la raconter, le tout doubl茅 d鈥檜ne critique litt茅raire tr猫s int茅ressante sur l鈥檕euvre de GGM. On n鈥檈st pas oblig茅s d鈥櫭猼re d鈥檃ccord avec toute l鈥檃nalyse litt茅raire, mais cela donne des pistes de r茅flexion int茅ressantes, et a minima un contexte 脿 l鈥櫭ヽriture. Sur cette base, une nouvelle perspective de l鈥檕euvre du g茅ant colombien s鈥檕uvre aux lecteurs. Je suis ravi d鈥檃voir lu Garcia Marquez sans avoir eu connaissance de tout cela (et de l鈥檃voir ador茅 sans aucun contexte), et me voil脿 maintenant dans la perspective de le relire avec de nouvelles cl茅s de lecture. PS: seul d茅faut: le format du livre (inexistant 脿 ma connaissance en poche ou en num茅rique) est particuli猫rement peu pratique, sauf 脿 avoir l鈥檕ccasion de le lire dans un transat
Saya tdak pernah membaca sebuah biography selengkap ini. Penelitian mendalam terhadap hampir semua sapek kehidupan GGM membuatkan bukan sahaja saya mengenal GGM seperti seorang sahabat lama malah perincian terhadap latar belakang serta peristiwa-peristiwa yang membentuk dan mengiringi perjalanan kepengarangan beliau juga membuatkan horizon pengetahuan saya terhadap sejarah dan politik Amerika Selatan sedikit meluas. Dengan segala warna-warni yang mengiringi usia kepengarangan tokoh sastera dunia ini, saya kira penulis-penulis muda yang ingin menciptakan impak terhadap sastera dunia seperti yang telah dicipta oleh GGM harus membaca buku ini walaupun anda bukan peminat tegar beliau. Buku yang terhasil dari satu usaha yang sangat mengangumkan.
Soy de los que leyeron "Vivir para contarla" en busca de alguna especie de auto产颈辞驳谤补蹿铆补, ese delicioso g茅nero lleno de an茅cdotas mentirosas. Quiz谩 estaba mal informada, pero el mamotreto s贸lo me llevo por los primeros a帽os de GGM como periodista y por historias que en sus libros de "ficci贸n" sonaban mucho mejor (p.ej., la del romance de sus padres en "El amor en los tiempos del c贸lera").
Pero este libro de Gerald Martin dio revancha: 700 y pico de p谩ginas que le铆 de un tir贸n, repasando la carrera del genial escritor y su vida. Un segmento que me emocion贸 particularmente es el que narra su peripecia en Par铆s con Tachia, su novia espa帽ola.
extra帽o para ser escrito por un anglo, pero la verdad es que es un gran libro, muy t茅cnico en muchas cr铆ticas, preciso, divertido y hasta acusativo (al final Garc铆a Marquez acepta que es su bi贸grafo y lo acusa de que lo maltrataba! ja!), finalmente me ayud贸 a saber y entender el transfondo hist贸rico de las novelas y la vida del escrito, me tarde porque conforme ibamos abordando la vida, ibamos leyendo los libros y habr谩 que decir que fue una vida que se torn贸 en una gran historia y ya muestro una gran nobela! eah Gabo!!
It's interesting that it took me several weeks to fully immerse myself in this book, but like Marquez, the story of his life was equally as intriguing as his novels. I couldn't wait to read the next chapter, and so on and so forth until I had completed the entire biography. It paints the picture just as I saw the man in my mind, which is precisely what one wants to hear from one of their literary heroes.
His book, Love in the Time of Cholera, perhaps, the most moving romance book I have ever read. So utterly passionate, over a length of a lifetime...can't wait to read this to know more of the writer who's able to pen a book of such, almost unbelievable, depths of a love. (Anyone else want to vomit after reading that preview of mine?)
Awesome biography of a one-of-a-kind person. Gerald Martin apparently had hundreds of sources. The best parts were the explanations of how real life informed each monumental work. The worst parts were overly detailed descriptions of political figures and organizations. It definitely makes me want to read all of Garcia Marquez's books that I haven't read yet.