Conversations with Gabriel García Márquez (Literary Conversations Series)

Gabriel García Márquez (b. 1927) is a sophisticated literary artist with broad popularity. His masterpiece One Hundred Years of Solitude has sold tens of millions of copies worldwide. In 1982 he received the Nobel Prize for Literature. Conversations with Gabriel García Márquez starts with the years of his early phenomenal success and continues through his most recent turn-of-the-century exchanges. He speaks of his impoverished childhood his life as an indifferent student his apprenticeship as a journalist the inspiration that led to the writing of his most renowned novel the difficulties brought by fame and his leftist opinions. Works such as The Autumn of the Patriarch Love in the Time of Cholera The General in His Labyrinth and News of a Kidnapping are discussed in detail. When interviewed by Hispanic journalists García Márquez chats spontaneously and frankly about all sorts of topics including himself. Those conversations translated into English for the first time offer a fascinating glimpse of the Colombian genius at his most down-to-earth informal and relaxed. Taken together with seminal pieces from the Atlantic Monthly the New York Times Book Review and other English-language periodicals Conversations with Gabriel García Márquez offers a nuanced multi-faceted view of one of contemporary literatures greatest masters. Gene H. Bell-Villada of Williamstown Massachusetts is chair of the Department of Romance Languages at Williams College and the author of National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Art for Arts Sake & Literary Life: How Politics & Markets Helped Shape the Ideology and Culture of Aestheticism 1790-1990 and Overseas American: Growing Up Gringo in the Tropics (University Press of Mississippi).