Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Une Vie, Paperback Book, By: Gerald Martin

Gerald Martin, according to García Márquez, his "official" biographer, gives us here a magnificent portrait of the Colombian writer, Nobel Prize winner for literature in 1982, who embodies both magical realism and revolutionary commitment. His novels and short stories brilliantly blend the great paintings of South American history, fable, folklore and popular myths. His exceptional work denounces social inequalities and inextricable moral compromises, fruits of fierce struggles for power or interest and the main causes of the misfortune of the weakest, driven to a tragic fate. It is, however, the lesser-known aspects of the writer's incredible fate that this biography highlights: the difficulty of reconciling fame and literary quality, politics and writing, power, loneliness and love; the contrast between his Caribbean origins and the grim authoritarianism of Bogota; and his conscious but nonetheless painful abandonment of Macondo, magical realism and One Hundred Years of Solitude, after they brought him fame and unexpected fortune. The result of seventeen years of constancy and stubbornness, this biography is based not only on the exceptional knowledge that Gerald Martin has acquired of García Márquez and his entourage, but also on a diversity of sources that he will be extremely difficult for any other biographer, if not impossible, to reunite again. and his conscious but nonetheless painful abandonment of Macondo, magical realism and One Hundred Years of Solitude, after they brought him fame and unexpected fortune. The result of seventeen years of constancy and stubbornness, this biography is based not only on the exceptional knowledge that Gerald Martin has acquired of García Márquez and his entourage, but also on a diversity of sources that he will be extremely difficult for any other biographer, if not impossible, to reunite again. and his conscious but nonetheless painful abandonment of Macondo, magical realism and One Hundred Years of Solitude, after they brought him fame and unexpected fortune. The result of seventeen years of constancy and stubbornness, this biography is based not only on the exceptional knowledge that Gerald Martin has acquired of García Márquez and his entourage, but also on a variety of sources that he will be extremely difficult for any other biographer, if not impossible, to reunite again.