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From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. Martin's control of his prodigious material in this first authorized biography of the great Colombian novelist García Márquez is astonishing. Martin (_Journeys Through the Labyrinth_) writes with a novelist's momentum. His descriptions of García Márquez's hometown, Aracataca (fictionalized as Macondo in One Hundred Years of Solitude), are atmospheric without being cloying; he conducts literary exegesis deftly, like a detective hunting for clues. From isolated youth to shabby college man in thrall to Kafka and Woolf, the sexual reprobate and the Nobel Prize laureate, grounded by his marriage and community of fellow writers and friends, and by turns publicly aloof and loquacious, García Márquez seems to be many different men, but his biographer handles the contradictions with finesse. Almost entirely laudatory, the biography addresses the controversies—which generally orbit the politicized García Márquez —gingerly if at all, and renders his off-putting traits endearing. Martin has come to praise García Márquez—whom he regards as the one writer who has been as artistically influential as the early modernists (in pioneering magical realism, now a s

Who reads Gabriel García Márquez : a life?

Author

Gerald Martin, Gerald Martin

Publisher

Vintage Books

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9780307272003

Category

history

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Romance, Memoir

Rating

4.14 / 5 (49 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14