“Life had already given him sufficient reasons for knowing that no defeat was the final one.”
―from THE GENERAL IN HIS LABYRINTH by Gabriel García Márquez
“There is always something left to love.”
―from ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE by Gabriel García MárquezThe brilliant, bestselling, landmark novel that tells the story of the Buendia family, and chronicles the irreconcilable conflict between the desire for solitude and the need for love—in rich, imaginative prose that has come to define an entire genre known as "magical realism." READ more here: http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/…/one-hundred-years-of-s…/#
“Life had already given him sufficient reasons for knowing that no defeat was the final one.”
―from THE GENERAL IN HIS LABYRINTH by Gabriel García Márquez
“There is always something left to love.”
―from ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE by Gabriel García Márquez
The brilliant, bestselling, landmark novel that tells the story of the Buendia family, and chronicles the irreconcilable conflict between the desire for solitude and the need for love—in rich, imaginative prose that has come to define an entire genre known as "magical realism." READ more here: http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/…/one-hundred-years-of-s…/#
The Paris Review
“Inspiration is when you find the right theme, one which you really like; that makes the work much easier. Intuition, which is also fundamental to writing fiction, is a special quality which helps you to decipher what is real without needing scientific knowledge, or any other special kind of learning. The laws of gravity can be figured out much more easily with intuition than anything else. It’s a way of having experience without having to struggle through it. For a novelist, intuition is essential. Basically it’s contrary to intellectualism, which is probably the thing that I detest most in the world—in the sense that the real world is turned into a kind of immovable theory. Intuition has the advantage that either it is, or it isn’t. You don’t struggle to try to put a round peg into a square hole.” —Gabriel García Márquez
“He was healthier than the rest of us, but when you listened with the stethoscope you could hear the tears bubbling inside his heart.”
― from CHRONICLE OF A DEATH FORETOLD by Gabriel García Márquez 一件事先張揚的兇殺案A man returns to the town where a baffling murder took place 27 years earlier, determined to get to the bottom of the story. Just hours after marrying the beautiful Angela Vicario, everyone agrees, Bayardo San Roman returned his bride in disgrace to her parents. Her distraught family forced her to name her first lover; and her twin brothers announced their intention to murder Santiago Nasar for dishonoring their sister. Yet if everyone knew the murder was going to happen, why did no one intervene to stop it? The more that is learned, the less is understood, and as the story races to its inexplicable conclusion, an entire society--not just a pair of murderers—is put on trial.
“Inspiration is when you find the right theme, one which you really like; that makes the work much easier. Intuition, which is also fundamental to writing fiction, is a special quality which helps you to decipher what is real without needing scientific knowledge, or any other special kind of learning. The laws of gravity can be figured out much more easily with intuition than anything else. It’s a way of having experience without having to struggle through it. For a novelist, intuition is essential. Basically it’s contrary to intellectualism, which is probably the thing that I detest most in the world—in the sense that the real world is turned into a kind of immovable theory. Intuition has the advantage that either it is, or it isn’t. You don’t struggle to try to put a round peg into a square hole.” —Gabriel García Márquez
“He was healthier than the rest of us, but when you listened with the stethoscope you could hear the tears bubbling inside his heart.”
― from CHRONICLE OF A DEATH FORETOLD by Gabriel García Márquez
馬奎斯作品集10/16：番石榴飄香
- 作者： 加西亞‧馬爾克斯與 P.A.門多薩 Gabriel Garcia Marquez/ P. A. Mendoza -
- 出版社：南海出版公司
- 出版日期：2014/12/31 (出版品：2015年1月)
Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza
- Series: Faber Caribbean
- Paperback: 128 pages
- Publisher: Faber & Faber (April 20, 1998)
- Language: English
Apuleyo Mendoza, Plinio; García Márquez, Gabriel (1983), The Fragrance of Guava, London: Verso
In these conversations Gabriel Garcia Marquez, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982, speaks about his Colombian family background, his early travels and struggles as writer, his literary antecedents, and his personal artistic concerns. Marquez conveys, as he does in his work through the power of language, the heat and colour of the Spanish Caribbean, the mythological world of its inhabitants, and the exotic mentality of its leaders. Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza, the journalist and novelist who shares these conversations, is a friend and contemporary of Marques, and also of Colombian extraction.