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Gabriel Garcia Marquez.


Gabriel Garcia Marquez Gar·cí·a Már·quez   , Gabriel Born 1928.

Colombian-born writer known especially for his novel One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967). He won the 1982 Nobel Prize for literature.
 

Harold Bloom

Bloom's Literary Criticism

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In "Gabriel Garcia Marquez", Harold Bloom (Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University) provides readers with an informed and informative biography of Gabriel Garcia Marques Marques may refer to:
  • marque, or brand name
  • Marqués, a surname
  • A Spanish form of Marquis.
  • ''Marques, a tall ship.
, the South American writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature The Nobel Prize in Literature (Swedish: Nobelpriset i litteratur) is awarded annually to an author from any country who has, in the words from the will of Alfred Nobel, produced "the most outstanding work of an idealistic tendency" (original Swedish:  and whose most widely known novel for English readers is "One Hundred years of Solitude One Hundred Years of Solitude

encompasses the sweep of Latin American history. [Lat. Am. Lit.: Gabriel Garcia Marquez One Hundred Years of Solitude in Weiss, 336]

See : Epic
". "Gabriel Garcia Marquez" features a critical, scholarly, and thought-provoking essay and analysis, supplemented with details about the writer and his life. Also very highly recommended reading for inclusion into highschool, college, and community library Literary Studies collections are Professor Harold Blooms' "James Baldwin" (978-0791085752, $35.00); "Herman Melville" (978-0791085738, $35.00); "William Blake" (978-0791085714); "Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451" (978-0791092941, $30.00); "Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five" (978-0791092958, $30.00); "Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis" (978-0791092989, $30.00); and "Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie" (978-0791092972, $30.00).
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