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3 | Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez (6 March 1927 – 17 April 2014). The name that is synonymous with MagicRealism. Born in Colombia in 1927, the man has been on the writing scene for a very long time and produced a solid body of work. In 1982, he gained the UsefulNotes/NobelPrizeInLiterature. His book ''Literature/OneHundredYearsOfSolitude'' has become ''the'' definitive work of Magic Realism, not to mention his most famous book. It is now required reading in many schools in the Spanish-speaking world. |
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5 | His grandmother was a great influence to his literary career. When he read ''Literature/TheMetamorphosis'' by Franz Kafka, he pereceived it to be quite similar to the style of his grandmother. |
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7 | His books deal with themes like solitude, eternal cycles, {{Banana Republic}}s, political disputes and civil wars, themes present in his life and the life of his country with distressful frequence. |
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9 | He has also immersed himself into the cinema, helping directors [[TheFilmOfTheBook to turn some of his books into films]]. |
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11 | Nowadays, García Márquez's fame has become [[ItsPopularNowItSucks a little awkward to Latin American writers]], since it has generated the impression that all the literature of the zone is about angels, jungles and countryside. As a countermovement, the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McOndo McOndo literary movement]] has been created by writers trying to present a more actualized Latin America. He’s still respected by those writers as a good writer, however. |
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13 | On the 7th of July, 2012, Márquez's brother revealed that he was [[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-18749389 suffering from senile dementia]] and had [[CareerEndingInjury given up writing for good]]. He passed away on April 17, 2014, at the age of 87. |
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15 | !! Books: |
16 | !!!Novels |
17 | * ''Leaf Storm'' (1955) |
18 | * ''No One Writes to the Colonel'' (1961) |
19 | * ''In Evil Hour'' (1962) |
20 | * ''Literature/OneHundredYearsOfSolitude'' (1967) |
21 | * ''Literature/TheAutumnOfThePatriarch'' (1975) |
22 | * ''Literature/ChronicleOfADeathForetold'' (1981) |
23 | * ''Literature/LoveInTheTimeOfCholera'' (1985) |
24 | * ''The General in His Labyrinth'' (1989) |
25 | * ''Of Love and Other Demons'' (1995) |
26 | * ''Memories of My Melancholy Whores'' (2004) |
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28 | !!!Short Story Collections |
29 | * ''Eyes of a Blue Dog'' (1947) |
30 | * ''Big Mama's Funeral'' (1962) |
31 | * ''Literature/TheIncredibleAndSadTaleOfInnocentErendiraAndHerHeartlessGrandmother'' (1978) |
32 | * ''Collected Stories'' (1984) |
33 | * ''Strange Pilgrims'' (1993) |
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35 | !!! Non-Fiction |
36 | * ''The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor'' (1970) |
37 | * ''The Solitude of Latin America'' (1982) |
38 | * ''The Fragrance of Guava'' (1982, with Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza) |
39 | * ''Clandestine in Chile'' (1986) |
40 | * ''News of a Kidnapping'' (1996) |
41 | * ''A Country for Children'' (1998) |
42 | * ''Living to Tell the Tale'' (2002), his autobiography |
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44 | !!García Márquez’s works contain examples of: |
45 | %%* AnachronicOrder |
46 | * BananaRepublic: The setting of almost all his books. |
47 | * BattleButler: José Palacios in ''The General in his Labyrinth''. |
48 | * CivilWar: A common theme in his novels is the generational war between the liberals and conservatives of Colombia, whether in ''La Violencia'' from 1948-58, or the Thousand Days War from 1899-1902. |
49 | * DesecratingTheDead: ''Leaf Storm'' is about a doctor who killed himself, and the town instead of burying him just wants to let him rot in his house. |
50 | * DoubleStandard: Usually [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]]. |
51 | * EternalRecurrence: A central theme in a lot of stories is the fact that some things are bound to repeat themselves over and over again. |
52 | * TheGeneralissimo: An important character is most of his books. Actually, in some of them (''Literature/TheAutumnOfThePatriarch'', ''The General in his Labyrinth'') he's the main character. |
53 | %%* GenerationXerox |
54 | * HistoricalDomainCharacter: Most of the main characters in ''The General in his Labyrinth'', especially Simón Bolívar. |
55 | * HistoricalFictionLiterature: Many of his books make implicit or explicit allusions to "La Violencia", a period of civil conflict in Colombia. Similarly, some of the books refer to the Thousand Days War (like ''Literature/OneHundredYearsOfSolitude'' or ''Memories of My Melancholy Whores''). ''The General in his Labyrinth'' deals with the last days of Bolívar. |
56 | %%* HonorBeforeReason |
57 | %%* HonorRelatedAbuse |
58 | %%* LonelyAtTheTop |
59 | * MagicRealism: One of the {{Trope Maker}}s, definitely TropeCodifier. |
60 | %%* MindScrew |
61 | * OldShame: His 1983 article in a Spanish newspaper erroneously portraying [[UsefulNotes/NepaliWithNastyKnives Gurkha soldiers]] as [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil rape-happy]], [[LeaveNoSurvivors prisoner-killing psychopaths]] during [[UsefulNotes/TheFalklandsWar the Falklands War]]. |
62 | * ReferencedBy: Mirabel from ''WesternAnimation/{{Encanto}}'' is associated with yellow butterflies. García Márquez famously used yellow butterflies in his works as a literary device, often representing love and hope. |
63 | %%* RomanAClef |
64 | * {{Robinsonade}}: His novel ''The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor'' is a non-fiction novel about one, in which a sailor called Luis Alejandro Velasco survives a broken ship and manages to return to his mainland in ten days, having survived the lack of food and water. |
65 | * SmallReferencePools: When people are asked to name a Latin American writer, García Márquez is one of the few names that come up. |
66 | %%* TurnOutLikeHisFather |
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