Collected Stories Summary
Gabriel García Márquez

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Collected Stories Summary

Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a fabulist, a sorcerer with language whose surprising and potent imagery and characters impel the reader from one story to another in this collection that spans 1947 to 1972. One of the benefits of this collection is that the reader sees the development and maturation of a most amazing literary talent from his earliest days to his award of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. Garcia Marquez' earliest stories...

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Gabriel Garca Mrquez Biographies (5)

Gabriel García Márquez

780 words, approx. 3 pages

Gabriel García Márquez (born 1928) was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, and journalist whose works earned him the reputation of being the greatest living writer of Castilian in ... Read more

Gabriel García Márquez

7,276 words, approx. 25 pages

Nobel Prize-winning, Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez has influenced an entire generation of writers around the world. Popularizing the genre of magic realism, García M&aac... Read more

Gabriel García Márquez

7,256 words, approx. 25 pages

Biography EssayThe work of Gabriel Garcia Marquez owes much of its popularity to the seemingly easy access it offers to readers and to the way it departs from the highly intellectualized, self-reflect... Read more

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

9,156 words, approx. 31 pages

1928. Born in Aracataca, Colombia. "... Everyone knows that I was born with the umbilical cord tangled around my neck almost strangling me. This was the origin of my terrible claustrophobia."1"... I h... Read more

Gabriel (Jose) Garcia Marquez

6,276 words, approx. 21 pages

The work of Gabriel García Márquez owes much of its popularity to the seemingly easy access it offers to readers and to the way it departs from the highly intellectualized, self-reflecti... Read more

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