Gabriel Garcia Marquez

South America was the cradle of great writers who created world literature. Cortazar, Borges, Benedetti and many others are among them. A truly outstanding among them is Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The author was born in Colombia in 1927 and died in Mexico in 2014. In 1982 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez (known in literary circles as Gabo) wrote more than ten novels and four books of short stories, and other works. There are great masterpieces among these ten novels. The most famous one is undoubtedly "One Hundred Years of Solitude" from the year 1967. Today, it has been translated into 35 languages ​​and more than 30 million copies were sold. But what makes it that special?

"One Hundred Years of Solitude" is the story about the Buendia family that has been living for seven generations in the town of Macondo - a fictional mythical place in the imagination of South American literature. The story mixes elements of great realism with fantastic elements of specific strain. That is the basis of "magical realism": The stories obtain an absolute excitation force through some unreal elements or contents in everyday situations.

In addition to the masterly handling of magical realism that characterizes this and many other novels by Marquez, the beauty of the language should be emphasized. Each line and each word of the stories in its combinations invite you to indulge yourself. And of course the stories are marked of great originality in a way, so each character is very distinctive and special.

There are many other artworks of Garcia Marquez that deserve beeing mentioned. Certainly "Love in the Time of Cholera" is another outstanding novel. A beautiful love story at the Colombian coast between the late nineteenth and the early twentieth century.

Both works are important readings for lovers of good literature.