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In this long-awaited first volume of a planned trilogy, the most acclaimed and revered living Nobel laureate begins to tell us the story of his life. Like all his work, Living to Tell the Tale is a magnificent piece of writing. It spans Gabriel García Márquez’s life from his birth in 1927 through the start of his career as a writer to the moment in the 1950s when he proposed to the woman who would become his wife. It has the shape, the quality, and the vividness of a conversation with the reader—a tale of people, places, and events as they occur to him: the colorful stories of his eccentric family members; the great influence of his mother and maternal grandfather; his consuming career in journalism, and the friends and mentors who encouraged him; the myths and mysteries of his beloved Colombia; personal details, undisclosed until now, that would appear later, transmuted and transposed, in his fiction; and, above all, his fervent desire to become a writer. And, as in his fiction, the narrator here is an inspired observer of the physical world, able to make clear the emotions and passions that lie at the heart of a life—in this instance, his own. Living to Tell the Tale is a radiant, powerful, and beguiling memoir that gives us the formation of Gabriel García Márquez as a writer and as a man.
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Living to Tell the Tale, Gabriel García Márquez, Edith Grossman
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2003
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- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Gabriel García Márquez, Edith Grossman
- Verlag
- Knopf
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2003
- Einband
- Hardcover
- Seitenzahl
- 496
- ISBN10
- 1400041341
- ISBN13
- 9781400041343
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Sachbücher, Wahre Geschichten, Biografien, Abenteuer, Liebe, Autobiografien & Memoiren, Erinnerungen, Spanische Literatur, Reise, Schriftsteller, Nobelpreis, Hispanoamerikanische Literatur, Südamerika, Lateinamerika, Kolumbien, Nobelpreis für Literatur, Kolumbianische Literatur, Macondo
- Erstveröffentlichung
- 2002
- Originaltitel
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- Beschreibung
- In this long-awaited first volume of a planned trilogy, the most acclaimed and revered living Nobel laureate begins to tell us the story of his life. Like all his work, Living to Tell the Tale is a magnificent piece of writing. It spans Gabriel García Márquez’s life from his birth in 1927 through the start of his career as a writer to the moment in the 1950s when he proposed to the woman who would become his wife. It has the shape, the quality, and the vividness of a conversation with the reader—a tale of people, places, and events as they occur to him: the colorful stories of his eccentric family members; the great influence of his mother and maternal grandfather; his consuming career in journalism, and the friends and mentors who encouraged him; the myths and mysteries of his beloved Colombia; personal details, undisclosed until now, that would appear later, transmuted and transposed, in his fiction; and, above all, his fervent desire to become a writer. And, as in his fiction, the narrator here is an inspired observer of the physical world, able to make clear the emotions and passions that lie at the heart of a life—in this instance, his own. Living to Tell the Tale is a radiant, powerful, and beguiling memoir that gives us the formation of Gabriel García Márquez as a writer and as a man.