Despite the more than three years that have passed since his death, the world has not forgotten about Gabo ... and never will. Originally from Aracataca, Colombia, a town he camouflaged under the identity of the famous Macondo from One Hundred Years of SolitudeGabriel García Márquez (March 6, 1927) is already the greatest author that Spanish American literature has produced. These 10 best free books of Gabriel García Márquez confirm the magic of the work of the father of magical realism and winner of the NobeHe who seduced us with his ability to define a continent in a book, merge reality with fantasy and turn some of its stories into timeless.
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Conceived by Gabo in one of his worst economic moments, little could the author foresee that his work, after being sent to the Argentine publisher Sudamericana in 1967, would become an indisputable success. The story of the Buendía family, inhabitant of the lost town of Macondo, not only served to narrate the history of Latin America over several generations, but also to coin the boom of a magical realism that prevailed during the 60s and 70s to become a flagship brand of Ibero-American letters. Of the 10 best books by Gabriel García Márquez this is his magnum opus, without a doubt.
Love in the Time of Cholera
On more than one occasion, Gabo acknowledged that Love in the time of cholera was his favorite novel. One of the reasons lies in the story of the author's own parents as a source of inspiration for the romance of Fermina Daza, married to the doctor Juvenal Urbino, and the lonely Florentino Ariza in a port town in the Colombian Caribbean. Developed throughout the lives of the three protagonists, Love in the Times of Cholero is like a slow bolero, one that immerses you in the thoughts of characters for whom time is the only hope. Published in 1985, the novel was a success and (un) deserved a film adaptation carried out in 2007.
A Chronicle of a Death Foretold
From the first page you already know the end, but the hook is to know how the pieces of the puzzle that led to the death of Santiago Nasar fit together, accused by Ángela Vicario, recently married to the doctor Bayardo San Román, of being the cause of the loss of her virginity. The crime story that everyone knew but no one dared to stop is closer to a detective novel and receives various influences from the more journalistic Gabo. Published in 1981, Chronicle of a Death Foretold It is inspired by the real case of a murdered man in a Colombian town in 1951.
El coronel no tiene quien le escriba
García Márquez's second published work was this short novel that, despite its length, contained a story as intense as it was subtle. The protagonist, a colonel who goes to the port every morning waiting for his pension for his services in the Thousand Day War, walks through the streets of a Colombian town, deals with his wife and tries to feed his deceased's fighting cock. son in the midst of growing poverty. The novel was published in 1961 and Gabo considered it "his best book".
Litter
The first novel published by Gabo already gave indications of the characters, situations and a town of Macondo that would be recognized after the publication of One Hundred Years of Solitude. A short novel that encompasses the three perspectives of a family (that of a colonel father, his daughter and his grandson) regarding the burial of a man hated by all the people. In this work, Gabo already manifests his time jumps and other features of magical realism to make it the perfect preamble to the rest of his bibliography.
Story of a castaway
The author's most journalistic work came after months of investigation into a curious event that shocked all of Colombia. Luis Alejandro Velasco He embarked from Mobile, Alabama (United States), on the Caldas ship, which was wrecked, forcing him to spend ten days at sea without food and at the mercy of the castaway's own calculations regarding when the rescue planes would arrive. The story uncovered the smuggling trade between the two countries, condemning to oblivion a Colombian hero whose story was turned into a novel by Gabo in 1970.
The Autumn of the Patriarch
The figure of the dictator in Latin America has been a literary reference evoked like few others by Gabo in this book. Conceived as a prose novel, in which numerous voices in the first person intermingle as perspectives of the tyrant Patriarch, the novel was published in 1975 and apparently did not like much to Fidel Castro, a close friend of Gabo.
Memories of my sad whores
The last novel by Gabriel García Márquez, published in 2004, caused some controversy after the moment of its release given the plot it presented: the love story between an elderly journalist who decides to give himself as a 90th birthday gift a night of passion with a working-class teenager who decides to sell her virginity to save her family. The abuse of power, loneliness and death, three of Gabo's favorite themes, merge in this story set in the city of Barranquilla in the mid-twentieth century and whose film adaptation saw the light in 2012.
Twelve Pilgrim Tales
Gabo was a great novelist but, above all, a short story writer, the nature of most authors of Latin American magical realism. And one of the best examples is this compilation of twelve stories that address the stories of different Latin American characters in European territory: from the old exiled president to the German governess who takes care of the children of a Colombian couple, this short story anthology explodes in what is my favorite story by the Colombian author, Your trail of blood in the snow, whose devastating ending redefines the much-needed twist in a genre like the short story.
Live to tell
After Gabo's death, the world turned to this work with greater fervor, an autobiography of the author divided into three parts and which helped to understand his literary universe even better. Throughout its pages, Gabriel García Márquez talks about the stories that his grandmother told him, about his approach to the great atrocities of the US government in Latin America or the proposal of marriage to his wife, Mercedes Barcha, the love of his life . The book was published in 2002.
What are, in your opinion, the 10 best books on Gabriel García Márquez ?
All of Gabo's literary work can be summed up in the Nobel Prize he won. However, Two works meet expectations: One Hundred Years of Solitude.
I love the literary creation of GGM, I wish it would have been eternal so that I would not stop writing and be able to enjoy it at every moment with something new
The term magical realism was introduced in Latin American literature by the Venezuelan Arturo Uslar Pietri. There were many who expressed their ideas through this style, but it is indisputable that Uslar Pietri is THE FATHER of this literary avant-garde and that he gives life to the term magical realism with his work Las Lanzas Coloradas published in 1930 set in the Venezuelan colonial era. . With all due respect to Gabriel G. Marquez and his great novels. But it is not correctly historical to coin Marquez the term father of magical realism
magnanimous life, masterful pen, with his memorizing hands, he created a story and exalted his nation Colombia, his vibe and magical realism, he was between consonants and letters.
The life of the illustrious novel in literature was great, among the trilling of letters, I was inspired by an ocean of astromelias. as also, a boomera of syllables.
many congratulations and congratulations, between mind and heart and a letter star.☺♂♠…