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Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Magical Realism

Introduction

Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a writer Colombian born on 6March 1927 in the municipality of Aracataca, in Colombia. He was known as a great novelist but also a journalist and political activist, he became laureate of Nobel Prize for Literature in1982. Garcia Marquez, affectionately known as "Gabo" in Latin America, is one of the most significant authors of the twentieth century. He transformed the scope of writing and took the literature wolrd to a new dimension.

Discussion

Professional Career

He began his professional career as a journalist and has written many literary non-fiction generally well received, and news. However, it is for his novels such as One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981) and Love in the Time of Cholera (1985), he is most recognized. His works have gained recognition from literary critics, and a wide commercial success, frequently involving the name of Garcia Marquez in “magical realism "genre that inserts elements of magic and supernatural events in situations relating to a historical and geographical fact. Most of his books deal with the theme of loneliness (Kilpatrick, pp. 603-604).

In August 1965, an important moment in his career, Garcia Marquez signed with literary agent of Barcelona, Carmen Balcells, and a contract allowing the latter to represent the Colombian writer in all languages and in all countries for a hundred and fifty years. Between July 1965 and August 1966, he wrote the novel One Hundred Years of Solitude, although his biggest challenge was to "start", however, eventually writing several pages a day. During this period, he abandoned his job to devote himself entirely to writing his manuscript. In March 1966, Tempo de morir, which he wrote the screenplay, won first prize at the International Film Festival of Cartagena.

In April 1967, German Vargas, a member of the "group of Barranquilla," published in the weekly liberal Encuentroan article he wrote about Hundred Years of Solitude, where he explains that this novel is "A book that will make noise”, and actually, Primera Plana, important weekly Argentina, published in 1967 an article on Garcia Marquez, after one of its journalists shared the life of Garcia Barcha for a week. The same year, Mario Vargas Llosa's modernist novel sets Garcia Marquez as "the great novel of chivalry" Latin American. The literary fate for the first time on 30 May 1967 in Argentina, and in June, Garcia Marquez interviewed by Vision, the equivalent of Time Latin America. On 1 August 1967, he participated in the XIII International Congress of the Ibero-American literature in Caracas where Mario Vargas Llosa, with whom he befriends, won the Romulo Gallegos Prize for his novel The Green House. This amicable relationship will end a few years later, Garcia Marquez receiving a punch in the face from Vargas Llosa, for reasons that remain unclear, but might be connected with the wife of the Peruvian writer. Following this latest celebrity allows him to have some financial security; Garcia Marquez decided to return to Europe, probably "to escape pressure ...