Name: Living to Tell the Tale
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Author: García Márquez, Gabriel ; Grossman, Edith
ISBN: 9781400041343

Type

Physical Book

Author

Gabriel García Márquez

Publisher

Knopf Publishing Group

Year

2003

Language

English

Pages

496

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

24.1 x 16.1 x 3.8 cm

Weight

0.77 kg.

ISBN

1400041341

ISBN13

9781400041343

Edition No.

Synopsis "Living to Tell the Tale"

In this long-awaited first volume of a planned trilogy, the most acclaimed and revered living Nobel laureate begins to tell us the story of his life. Like all his work, Living to Tell the Tale is a magnificent piece of writing. It spans Gabriel García Márquez's life from his birth in 1927 through the start of his career as a writer to the moment in the 1950s when he proposed to the woman who would become his wife. It has the shape, the quality, and the vividness of a conversation with the reader--a tale of people, places, and events as they occur to him: the colorful stories of his eccentric family members; the great influence of his mother and maternal grandfather; his consuming career in journalism, and the friends and mentors who encouraged him; the myths and mysteries of his beloved Colombia; personal details, undisclosed until now, that would appear later, transmuted and transposed, in his fiction; and, above all, his fervent desire to become a writer. And, as in his fiction, the narrator here is an inspired observer of the physical world, able to make clear the emotions and passions that lie at the heart of a life--in this instance, his own. Living to Tell the Tale is a radiant, powerful, and beguiling memoir that gives us the formation of Gabriel García Márquez as a writer and as a man.

Gabriel García Márquez

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(1927- 2014), nacido en Colombia, es una de las figuras más importantes e influyentes de la literatura universal. Ganador del Premio Nobel de Literatura en 1982, fue, además de novelista, cuentista, ensayista, crítico cinematográfico, autor de guiones y un intelectual comprometido con los grandes problemas de nuestro tiempo, sobre todo los que afectaban a su amada Colombia y a Hispanoamérica en general. Máxima figura del llamado «realismo mágico». Fue en definitiva, el hacedor de uno de los mundos narrativos más densos de significado que ha dado la lengua española en el siglo XX.

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