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“... Roa Bastos himself, Argentina’s Julio Cortazar, Venezuela’s Miguel Otero Silva, Colombia’s Gabriel García Marquez, Cuba’s Alejo Carpentier, the Dominican Republic’s Juan Bosch and Chile’s José Donoso and Jorge Edwards (one of them promised to take on a Bolivian dictator). When the project fell through, three ...”

“... A coda. Is this Torrijos the same genial populist who was hymned and wreathed by Graham Greene and Gabriel GarciaMarquez? The plucky patriot who stood up for his people and his Canal? Yes, it is the torturer and traitor and bribe-taker himself. Nothing better illustrates the decay of ideology than the non-fiction ...”

“... a world novel in every sense to rank alongside the best of Coetzee, Salman Rushdie ... and Gabriel GarciaMarquez’. Does Malouf deserve such backers – and perhaps the Booker as well? Maybe he does; maybe they all deserve one another. Here are his final paragraphs: Out beyond the flatlands the line of light ...”

“... realism. The old man’s poignant flashback in the face of death has become a classic, but then, Gabriel García Márquez spent 17 years preparing for this sentence. One Hundred Years of Solitude went on to launch not only the concept but a thousand whimsical imitations, such as Isabel Allende’s The House of the Spirits. The third passage, by now highly ...”

“... view over the Aburra valley.’ Escobar is the best known modern Colombian. He would outscore even Gabriel García Márquez and the bubble-permed soccer legend Valderama in focus-group samplings. After 499 days at large, he was run to ground in 1993 by a force of 1500 men, and whacked. But Colombia is still haunted by his ghost. President Ernesto Samper, who ...”

“... of the few exceptions in that his name appeared regularly among the magazine’s contributors, and Gabriel GarciaMarquez, have spoken appreciatively of the journal’s importance for themselves and their friends. As regards Sur’s role in the Argentine, I am puzzled by what is undoubtedly the most glaring omission in ...”

“... about Prague in 1968, or a Colombian write about La Violencia. That’s what Milan Kundera and Gabriel García Márquez are there for. No it isn’t. The experiences of Kundera and Márquez in their own countries, their Czechness and Colombianness, give their work something irreproducible by an outsider. But they are good because they are good writers, not ...”

“... if you can, the tone of normality: ‘I knew the bar well.’ The modern master of this tone is Gabriel García Márquez, although he says he got it from Kafka, and The People’s Act of Love opens with a discreet tribute, an elegantly modified memory of the beginning of One Hundred Years of Solitude (‘Many years later, facing the firing squad ...”

“... first International Man Booker Prize for career achievement, alongside Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, Gabriel García Márquez, Margaret Atwood et al. Consequently, it is sometimes seen as surprising that she is so little read in Britain. Her formidable essays have been published and admired here; but, of her nine works of fiction, only The Bear Boy – published ...”

“... stars out of Mel Gibson and Bruce Willis. Although it is tempting to align de Bernières with Gabriel García Márquez, whose work was also becoming popular with British readers at this period, his strongest influence is Norman Douglas’s South Wind. This novel, which came out in 1917, held its place as a book that everyone read for three decades (it was ...”

“... world Bolaño has already met with the kind of success that among Latin American writers only Gabriel García Márquez has achieved, an ironic victory given Bolaño’s endless attacks on what he regarded as a mere mainstream of literature. The distinctive signature of his work should assure his ghost that he need no longer worry, if he ever did, about ...”

“... up on the idea of an oral history of Cuban life under communism. In 1975 he asked his close friend Gabriel García Márquez, who was enamoured of the revolution, to write it. García Márquez worked on the project for a year, then gave up. He told friends that what Cubans said didn’t fit the book that he wanted to ...”

“... then, when the coup came, you realised your limits were much narrower than you thought. Marcos Garcia de la Huerta is a colleague of Jorge Guzman; both work in the Centro de Estudios Humanisticos in the faculty of mathematical and physical sciences of the University of Chile, which had a moment of glory when it was upgraded from a centre, servicing ...”

“... to Gay, the noteworthy protagonists of the modern have dwindled in number. Günter Grass, Gabriel García Márquez: when they are gone, the last vestiges of the modern will be gone. But then comes the epilogue, with Gay’s trip to Bilbao, and in the embrace of Gehry’s brilliance he finds a glimmer of hope. Modernism ‘has had a good long ...”

“... of Panama, which, after a brief interlude first under Omar Torrijos (friend of Graham Greene and Gabriel García Márquez) and then under Manuel Noriega (former friend of George Bush), is now firmly back in its control. (As John Major says in the Cambridge History, the Panama Canal has been the ‘outstanding symbol of Washington’s power to dominate the ...”