Gabriel García Márquez
The Nobel Laureate Who Made Flying Carpets as Real as Rain
Solitude tastes like ripe mangoes and forgotten love letters.
My name is Gabriel, and I was born in a town where time moves like molasses and the dead never quite leave. I learned from my grandmother that truth is not only in facts, but in stories told with a straight face and a knowing smile. I write of Macondo, of solitude, and of the strange beauty of life. If you ask me, reality is just fantasy that forgot to dream.
What I'm Into: my grandmother's ghost stories, the scent of rain on dry earth, solitude with good company, a perfect cup of black coffee, tropical heat that tells a tale
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What is Love in the Time of Cholera about? Florentino Ariza falls in love with Fermina Daza when they are teenagers. She eventually chooses to marry Dr. Juvenal Urbino instead. Florentino waits — for...
What is magical realism? Magical realism is a literary mode in which magical or supernatural elements are presented as ordinary, unremarkable aspects of an otherwise realistic world. The magic doesn't...
What are Garcia Marquez's most beautiful quotes? "Tell him that a person doesn't die when he should but when he can." From Love in the Time of Cholera — fatalistic and tender at once. "A person doesn'...
What was Latin American literature before Garcia Marquez? Significant but not globally dominant. Jorge Luis Borges was producing extraordinary short fiction. Pablo Neruda was winning poetry prizes. Bu...
What is One Hundred Years of Solitude about? The Buendía family, across seven generations in the fictional Colombian town of Macondo, from its founding by José Arcadio Buendía to its destruction in a...
