Martin Marquez Biography
Gerald Martin "Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Biography ”soon on sale the first full biography of one of the most famous writers of our time. Gerald Martin is the only "official" biographer of Marquez. Gerald Martin's book is 17 years of work, more interviews, many hours spent in conversations with the writer himself, his relatives, friends and relatives, including Fidel Castro.
A reliable and fascinating story about the great writer who gave us “a hundred years of loneliness”, “autumn of the patriarch” and “love during the plague”. Gerald Martin, a professor at the University of Pittsburgh and an expert of Latin American literature, spent 17 years of his life to create a biography of one of the greatest writers of our time - the “magical realist” Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
In the year, Marquez announced the world press that Martin his “official” biographer. As the professor himself writes: “Probably, we can assume that I am his only officially“ not prohibited ”biographer. This is a high honor. " Martin spent many hours in conversations with the writer himself, his relatives, translators and closest friends, including Fidel Castro.
In total, he took about three hundred interviews. The most time -consuming, according to the biographer, was to understand the intricacies of the numerous myths that the writer surrounded himself, because “almost every significant event in his life Marquez described this and this way,” resorting to “mystification and impudent intrigue to let journalists or literary criticists”. The huge achievement of Gerald Martin is that he managed to recognize the harsh, bewitching, sometimes comic reality, forming the background of the books Garcia Marquez.
Talking about a poorly dressed by a skinny guy who has risen from provincial obscurity to the heights of wealth and worldwide glory, Martin analyzes such conflicting aspects of Garcia Marquez’s life as the popularity and quality of literary works, politics and writing, power, loneliness and love. The biography of Marquez is given against the background of the history of Latin America, the motherland and the writer’s inspiration, which represents an independent interest for the reader and allows him to truly immerse himself in the world of his beloved author.
The Laureate of the Nobel Prize in literature and many other awards, Garcia Marquez created marvelous works on the basis of the events of his life and the life of his native Colombia. Gerald Martin - Honorary Professor of the Faculty of Modern Languages named after Andrew U. Mellon Pittsburgh University and a professor, a leading specialist in the study of culture of the Caribbean basin of the University of Metropolitan.
He visited all countries of Latin America, has a lot of work in his arsenal about this continent.