Acclaimed author Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- known for the magical realism of his novels "One Hundred Years of Solitude" and "Love in the Time of Cholera" -- moved to Mexico from his native Colombia in the 1960s. And for years,...

One Hundred Years of Solitude has most shaped world literature over the past 25 years, says survey Gabriel García Márquez's seminal novel One Hundred Years of Solitude is the piece of writing that has most shaped world literature over the past 25 years, according to a survey of international writers. Barack Obama's memoir, Dreams from My Father, also makes an appearance on ...

       In The Guardian Alison Flood reports that: 'One Hundred Years of Solitude has most shaped world literature over the past 25 years, says survey', in Gabriel García Márquez masterpiece tops poll of world literature, as: Indra Sinha, Blake Morrison, Amit Chaudhuri and 22 other authors were asked to pick the title that they felt...

The Denver Bibliophile (actually, see here) and the Commonplace Blog are asking for nominations for the most overrated novel. Nominees so far include The Lord of the Rings, Atlas Shrugged, Brave New World, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Beloved, and Emma (?!?!?!?!). Also, The Homemaker by Dorothy Canfield Fisher, submitted by a reader who obviously misunderstands the game. No one really bothers to...

Christopher Tayler is charmed by Pynchon's mix of comedy and cultural detritus If, like me, you weren't yet born in the 1960s, it can take a bit of effort to apprehend the 60s-ness in some of the cultural endeavours of that decade.It's strange to think, for example, that Gabriel García Márquez wrote One Hundred Years of Solitude with "A Hard Day's Night" o...

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez I first read One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Marquez, in a high school literature class. It was a serious struggle. Most kids I knew hated the book. I found it nearly incomprehensible. I couldn't keep track of the myriad characters (often with duplicate names) but the fantastical, dreamlike events intrigued me. I had a similar experience with this book. Living to T...

Quoting this from the NYRB’s review of the current Garcia Marquez bio: García Márquez popularized the style, but he was not its inventor, and One Hundred Years of Solitude would not have been possible without his hav- ing studied, at Carlos Fuentes’s urging, the works of an older generation of Spanish-American writers who were magic

From the NYRB's review of the current Garcia Marquez bio: García Márquez popularized the style, but he was not its inventor, and One Hundred Years of Solitude would not have been possible without his hav- ing studied, at Carlos Fuentes's urging, the works of an older generation of Spanish-American writers who were magic realism's pioneers, among them Alejo Carpentier and Miguel Asturias.[3] It i...

“This can be a quick one. Don’t take too long to think about it. Fifteen books you’ve read that will always stick with you. First fifteen you can recall in no more than 15 minutes.” This is hard. In no order: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith) The Sunne in Splendour (Sharon Kay Penman) Forever Amber (Kathleen Winsor) One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez...

Here we go again. Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez once again has had to declare that -- contrary to false reports -- that he has not retired, and is still writing. In fact, he says he writes constantly. What's so weird about this story is that, this time, the nasty rumor was started by his own literary agent. Last week, the One Hundred Years of Solitude author's literary agent Carm...