"Vivir para contarla" is the extraordinary story of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's early life. It is a recreation of his formative years, from his birth in Colombia in 1927, through his evocative childhood to the time he became a journalist. The Nobel laureate offers us the memory of his childhood and adolescence, the years that shaped his creative imagination, and, with time, would become the basis of the fiction that makes up much of twentieth-century literature in Spanish and indeed the world.
In these pages Garcia Marquez reveals the echoes of peoples and stories that we meet in "One Hundred Years of Solitude," "Love in the Time of Cholera," "No One Writes to the Colonel," and "Chronicle of a Death Foretold." "Vivir para contarla" is a guide to readers of his entire work, an indispensable companion to many unforgettable passages which, with the reading of this memoir acquire a new perspective.
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"Vivir para contarla" es, probablemente, el libro mas esperado de la decada, compendio y recreacion de un tiempo crucial en la vida de Gabriel Garcia Marquez. En este apasionante relato, el premio Nobel colombiano ofrece la memoria de sus anos de infancia y juventud, aquellos en los que se fundaria el imaginario que, con el tiempo, daria lugar a algunos de los relatos y novelas fundamentales en la literatura en lengua espanola del siglo XX.
Estamos ante la novela de una vida a traves de cuyas paginas Garcia Marquez va descubriendo ecos de personajes e historias que han poblado obras como "Cien anos de soledad, El amor en los tiempos del colera, El coronel no tiene quien le escriba "o" Cronica de una muerte anunciada" y convierten "Vivir para contarla" en una guia de lectura para toda su obra, en acompanante imprescindible para iluminar pasajes inolvidables que, tras la lectura de estas memorias, adquieren una nueva perspectiva.

Book details

• Format Hardcover
• Pages573 pages
• LanguageEnglish
• ISBN101400041066
• ISBN139781400041060