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Gabriel García Márquez

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Gabriel José García Márquez (1927–2014) was a Colombian writer and journalist whose fiction transformed the literary possibilities of the Latin American novel. His major works include One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera, The Autumn of the Patriarch, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, and The General in His Labyrinth. He also produced influential journalism, memoir, reportage, essays, interviews, screenplays, and short-story collections. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982.

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En agosto nos vemos

novel · First published 2024

Un maravilloso regalo inesperado para los innumerables lectores de García Márquez Cada mes de agosto Ana Magdalena Bach toma el transbordador hasta la isla donde está enterrada su madre para visitar la tumba en la que yace. Esas visitas acaban suponiendo una irresistible invitación a convertirse en una persona distinta durante una noche al año. Escrita en el inconfundible y fascinante estilo de García Márquez, En agosto nos vemos es un canto a la vida, a la resistencia del goce pese al paso del tiempo y al deseo femenino. Un regalo inesperado para los innumerables lectores del Nobel colombiano. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION The extraordinary rediscovered novel from the Nobel Prize-winning author of Love in the Time of Cholera and One Hundred Years of Solitude. Sitting alone beside the languorous blue waters of the lagoon, Ana Magdalena Bach contemplates the men at the hotel bar. She has been happily married for twenty-seven years and has no reason to escape the life she has made with her husband and children. And yet, every August, she travels by ferry here to the island where her mother is buried, and for one night takes a new lover. Across sultry Caribbean evenings full of salsa and boleros, lotharios, and conmen, Ana journeys further each year into the hinterland of her desire and the fear hidden in her heart. Constantly surprising, joyously sensual, Until August is a profound meditation on freedom, regret, self-transformation, and the mysteries of love--an unexpected gift from one of the greatest writers the world has ever known.

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Cien años de soledad

The central Macondo novel and García Márquez's most influential work.

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Crónica de una muerte anunciada

A concise entry point combining fiction, reportage, and investigative structure.

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El amor en los tiempos del cólera

A major mature novel centered on love, aging, and memory.

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Obra periodística

A five-volume chronological series collecting García Márquez's journalism from the late 1940s through the 1980s.

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  1. 1
    Textos costeños (1948–1952)

    Book 1 · journalism-collection · 1981

    En este primer volumen de la Obra periodística de García Márquez, que abarca el período desde que empezó a escribir para El Universal de Cartagena, en mayo de 1948, hasta diciembre de 1952, ya se advierte el pensamiento y la pasión del…

  2. 2
    Entre cachacos (1954–1955)

    Book 2 · journalism-collection · 1982

  3. 3
    De Europa y América (1955–1960)

    Book 3 · journalism-collection · 1983

  4. 4
    Por la libre (1974–1984)

    Book 4 · journalism-collection · 1984

  5. 5
    Notas de prensa (1961–1984)

    Book 5 · journalism-collection · 1991

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Novels (14)
  1. La hojarasca

    novel · 1955

    First published in 1955 but not translated into English until 1972 this slim novel is set in the fictional town of Macondo, the setting for Garcia Marquez’s later novel One Hundred Years of Solitude. Many of the characters and themes from…

  2. La mala hora

    novel · 1962

    Un village colombien, qui a connu la guerre civile, vit en paix depuis que le maire a rétabli l'ordre parla terreur. Mais, un soir, les premiers tracts anonymes apparaissent sur quelques portes. Celui que lit César Montero l'amène…

  3. Cien años de soledad

    novel · 1967

  4. El otoño del patriarca

    novel · 1975

  5. Crónica de una muerte anunciada

    novella · 1981

    Also contained in: - [Collected Novellas](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL274508W)

  6. El amor en los tiempos del cólera

    novel · 1985

    "«Era inevitable: el olor de las almendras amargas le recordaba siempre el destino de los amores contrariados.» Así empieza una de las historias de amor más maravillosas de la literatura universal. Un amor no correspondido durante medio…

  7. Del amor y otros demonios

    novel · 1994

    En el esplendor y decadencia de la América esclavista del siglo XVIII se escribió la historia de Sierva María de Todos los Ángeles, la marquesita recluida en un convento donde enfrentará el prejuicio y la ignorancia de su tiempo, los…

  8. Cómo se cuenta un cuento

    nonfiction · 1995

    Taller de escribir guiones de cine dirigida por Gabriel García Márquez. Los participantes incluyen Marcos R. López (Argentina), Manuel F. Nieto Arango (Colombia), Denise Pinho França de Almeida (Brasil), Elid Pineda Arzate (México),…

  9. La bendita manía de contar

    nonfiction · 1998

  10. Memoria de mis putas tristes

    novella · 2004

    Un viejo periodista decide festejar sus noventa años a lo grande, dándose un regalo que le hará sentir que todavía está vivo: una jovencita virgen y con ella "el principio de una nueva vida a una edad en que la mayoría de los mortales…

  11. En agosto nos vemos

    novel · 2024

    Un maravilloso regalo inesperado para los innumerables lectores de García Márquez Cada mes de agosto Ana Magdalena Bach toma el transbordador hasta la isla donde está enterrada su madre para visitar la tumba en la que yace. Esas visitas…

Nonfiction (4)
  1. Cuando era feliz e indocumentado

    journalism-collection · 1973

  2. Crónicas y reportajes

    journalism-collection · 1976

  3. Vivir para contarla

    memoir · 2002

Short fiction (6)
  1. Los funerales de la Mamá Grande

    short-story-collection · 1962

  2. La increíble y triste historia de la cándida Eréndira y de su abuela desalmada: siete cuentos

    short-story-collection · 1972

    Este libro excepcional reúne la novela corta que le otorga su título y otros seis relatos más, de los que todos menos uno pertenecen a la etapa de plena madurez del escritor. Fueron los años en los que Macondo le abrió las puertas del…

  3. El negro que hizo esperar a los ángeles

    short-story-collection · 1974

  4. Ojos de perro azul

    short-story-collection · 1974

  5. Doce cuentos peregrinos

    short-story-collection · 1992

Essays and speeches (4)
  1. El cataclismo de Damocles

    speech · 1986

  2. Un país al alcance de los niños

    illustrated-essay · 1996

  3. Yo no vengo a decir un discurso

    speech-collection · 2010

Plays (3)
  1. La tigra

    screenplay · 1978

  2. Viva Sandino

    screenplay · 1982

Other (6)
  1. Relato de un náufrago

    reportage · 1970

    Resumen: el 28 de febrero de 1955 se conocio la noticia de que ocho miembros de la tripulacion del destructor Caldas, de la Marina de Guerra de Colombia, habian caido al agua y desaparecido a causa de una tormenta en el mar Caribe. La…

  2. Operación Carlota

    reportage · 1977

  3. El olor de la guayaba

    literary-conversation · 1982

  4. La aventura de Miguel Littín clandestino en Chile

    reportage · 1986

    An account of the clandestine sojourn of Miguel Littín, a noted filmmaker exiled from his native Chile, as he secretly filmed life under the military dictatorship

  5. Noticia de un secuestro

    reportage · 1996

    La cronica de un secuestro real magistralmente retratado por Gabriel Garcia Marquez.Era, en efecto, el automovil de Maruja. Habia transcurrido por lo menos media hora desde el secuestro, y solo quedaban los rastros: el cristal del lado…

Frequently asked questions about Gabriel García Márquez

Who was Gabriel García Márquez?

Gabriel García Márquez was a Colombian novelist, journalist, and screenwriter whose fiction combined realistic settings with fantastic and dreamlike elements. He became one of the foremost interpreters of magical realism.

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When and where was Gabriel García Márquez born and when did he die?

He was born on March 6, 1927, in Aracataca, Colombia, and died on April 17, 2014, in Mexico City, Mexico.

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How did Gabriel García Márquez begin his career?

He began by studying law, but left his studies to work as a journalist and writer. During the 1950s and 1960s, he worked as a foreign correspondent before devoting himself fully to creative writing in the late 1960s.

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What influenced Gabriel García Márquez’s writing?

His work drew on Latin American folk culture and oral storytelling, Indigenous traditions, Spanish baroque writing, European surrealism, and modernism. Political and social conflicts in Latin America also strongly shaped his subject matter.

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What awards did Gabriel García Márquez win, and what is his literary legacy?

He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982 for fiction that combined the fantastic and the realistic while reflecting the life and conflicts of a continent. His legacy includes a globally translated body of writing that made Latin American experiences central to world literature.

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