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In his novels and short reviews, Gabriel García Márquez has altered the particulars of his own life and the lives of his fellow Colombians into wondrous fiction. Now, we receive the opportunity to see the truth behind the "enchanting realism". While revealing to the storyline of the sloppily dressed, skinny son who increased from obscurity as a provincial journalist to international popularity as the progenitor of a new books, Gerald Martin also considers the tensions in García Márquez's life between movie star and the non-public quest for literary quality, between politics and writing, and between the seductions of electricity, solitude, and love. He explores the contrast between the writer's Caribbean history and the authoritarianism of Colombia, and in the 1980s, his extraordinary turning away from enchanting realism toward the greater simplicity that could draw his work, you start with Love in enough time of Cholera. Over the course of 15 years, Gerald Martin interviewed not only "Gabo" himself, but also more than 300 other men and women, including Fidel Castro, Felipe González - the ex - prime minister of Spain - and many ex - presidents of Colombia; the freelance writers Carlos Fuentes, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Álvaro Mutis, among others; García Márquez's partner and sons; his mother and siblings; his literary agent and translators; the people he considers his closest friends; as well as those who rely themselves among his detractors. The effect is a surprising rvelation of your life that is really as gripping as the writer's powerful journalism and as enthralling as any of his fiction.

Category: Caribbean & Latin American