Novelist Garcia Marquez, Nobel laureate, Dies at 87

[Hissyspit]

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Source: Associated Press

@AP: BREAKING: Source close to family says Nobel laureate novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez has died.

Garcia Marquez, Nobel laureate, dies at 87

By E. EDUARDO CASTILLO and FRANK BAJAK, Associated Press | April 17, 2014

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the Nobel laureate whose novels and short stories exposed tens of millions of readers to Latin America's passion, superstition, violence and inequality, died at home in Mexico City around midday, according to people close to his family. He was 87.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/world/article/Garcia-Marquez-Nobel-laureate-dies-at-87-5410863.php

[Judi Lynn]

1. Garcia Marquez, Nobel laureate, dies at 87

Garcia Marquez, Nobel laureate, dies at 87

By E. EDUARDO CASTILLO and FRANK BAJAK, Associated Press | April 17, 2014 | Updated: April 17, 2014 3:18pm



MEXICO CITY (AP) — Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the Nobel laureate whose novels and short stories exposed tens of millions of readers to Latin America's passion, superstition, violence and inequality, died at home in Mexico City around midday, according to people close to his family. He was 87.

Widely considered the most popular Spanish-language writer since Miguel de Cervantes in the 17th century, Garcia Marquez achieved literary celebrity that spawned comparisons to Mark Twain and Charles Dickens.

His flamboyant and melancholy fictional works — among them "Chronicle of a Death Foretold," ''Love in the Time of Cholera" and "Autumn of the Patriarch" — outsold everything published in Spanish except the Bible. The epic 1967 novel "One Hundred Years of Solitude sold more than 50 million copies in more than 25 languages.

His stories made him literature's best-known practitioner of magical realism, the fictional blending of the everyday with fantastical elements such as a boy born with a pig's tail and a man trailed by a swarm of yellow butterflies.

His death was confirmed by two people close to the family who spoke on condition of anonymity out of respect for the family's privacy.

More:
http://www.chron.com/news/world/article/Garcia-Marquez-Nobel-laureate-dies-at-87-5410863.php?cmpid=bna

Thank you, Hissyspit, for breaking this very sad story. Gabriel Garcia Marquez is irreplaceable.

[Paladin]

2. A brilliant writer. RIP. (nt)

[Benton D Struckcheon]

3. I remember my dad's reaction to A Hundred Years of Solitude

On some trip or other (to Mexico maybe?) I picked it up in an airport in Spanish, handed it to my dad to read some time later.
His reaction was something to see. He was always telling stories about the characters in the mountains of PR where he grew up, and when he read it, it was like he was back home, in the mountains among the jibaros. (PR for campesino: peasant) Said it was the only book he'd ever read that got what life was like back there down perfect.
Could not get enough of that book. I was amazed and of course very happy at that reaction.
Anyway, my dad died a few years ago. Maybe he and Marquez will run into each other up there, and pass a few hours talking about life.
My fave was always No One Writes to the Colonel, for the punch line.

[LoisB]

4. Sad news, great writer.

[Comrade Grumpy]

5. "Many years later, as he faced the firing squad...

...Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice."

That's the opening sentence of 100 Years of Solitude. And it was off to the races from there.

Magical realism, indeed.

[Jack Rabbit]

6. One of the great novelists of the twentieth century

RIP to el señor García Márquez and to Colonel Aureliano Buendía.

[Jesus Malverde]

7. bump... nt

[alfredo]

8. I remember Reagan would not allow him to enter the country.

[Judi Lynn]

9. Garcia Marquez is going to hell: Congresswoman-elect

Garcia Marquez is going to hell: Congresswoman-elect
Apr 18, 2014 posted by Alexandra Jolly

Colombian House Representative-elect caused outrage on social media on Thursday by stating that recently deceased author Gabriel Garcia Marquez is going to hell for his friendships with leftist leaders and his own leftist political ideals.

Maria Fernanda Cabal, Senator-elect for the right-wing Democratic Center (Centro Democratico – CD) party of former President Alvaro Uribe, posted a picture on twitter of Garcia Marquez with his friend, former Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, captioned: “soon they will be together in hell.”

The original tweet was subsequently removed from Senator Cabal’s page but further, equally negative tweets in her defense soon followed.

Cabal posted tweets with captions such as “what a productive friendship! Millionaire communists,” as well as a map of the proximity of Garcia Marquez’s home to Fidel Castro’s entitled “Gabo’s mansion adjoining that of satanic prince Fidel.”

More:
http://colombiareports.co/senator-elect-states-garcia-marquez-will-go-hell-leftist-ideals-2/

[Judi Lynn]

11. Marquez has left behind a manuscript

Marquez has left behind a manuscript
April 24, 2014

MEXICO CITY: Novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez left behind an unpublished manuscript that he chose not to print while he was alive, an editor told The Associated Press on Tuesday as the writer’s compatriots held a musical tribute to him in his native Colombia.

Cristobal Pera, editorial director of Penguin Random House Mexico, said that Garcia Marquez’s family has not yet decided whether to Allow the book to come out posthumously, or which publishing house would get the rights.

Garcia Marquez died at his Mexico City home on April 17.

The manuscript has a working title of We’ll See Each Other in August, (En Agosto Nos Vemos).

An excerpt of the manuscript published in Spain’s La Vanguardia newspaper contains what appears to be an opening chapter, describing a trip taken by a 50-ish married woman who visits her mother’s grave on a tropical island every year.

More:
http://gulftoday.ae/portal/77c64389-1b85-41bb-95c8-71c3e7d8d509.aspx

[WorseBeforeBetter]

12. I just finished "One Hundred Years of Solitude"...

and came to DU to see if there was any discussion about the book. I dove in not knowing much of anything about the author, and have to admit I'm still somewhat stunned at Garcia Marquez's talent as a writer. I missed the sad news that he had passed away.

If ever there were a book to get lost in, this is it. And Colonel Aureliano Buendia's line about "shitty gringos" and bananas has to be one of the funniest, saddest, and truest in all of literature.

Lolita now, Love in the Time of Cholera next...