Gabriel García Márquez
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Series
Publisher
Vintage Español, una división de Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
121 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Description
El coronel no tiene quien le escriba fue escrita por Gabriel García Márquez durante su estancia en París, adonde había llegado como corresponsal de prensa y con la secreta intención de estudiar cine, a mediados de los años cincuenta. El cierre del periódico para el que trabajaba le sumió en la pobreza, mientras redactaba en tres versiones distintas esta excepcional novela, que fue rechazada por varios editores antes de su publicación. Tras...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
151 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"Los textos que Gabriel García Márquez ha reunido en este libro fueron escritos por el autor con la intención de ser leidos por él mismo en público, ante una audiencia, y recorren prácticamente toda su vida, desde el primero, que escribe a los diecisiete años para despedir a sus compañeros del curso superior en Zipaquirá, hasta el que lee ante las Academias de la Lengua y los reyes de España al cumplir ochenta años. Estos discursos del...
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Written with compassionate realism and wit, the stories in this mesmerizing collection depict the disparities of town and village life in South America, of the frightfully poor and outrageously rich, of memories and illusions, and of lost opportunities and present joys.
Stories within this collection include "No One Writes to the Colonel," "Tuesday Siesta," "One of These Days," "There Are No Thieves in This Town," "Balthazar's Marvelous Afternoon,"...
29) Presagio
Publisher
Facets Video
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"When Mama Santos declares, "Something bad is going to happen" in Presagio, it becomes a bad omen rather than a mere statement. Her provincial town quickly transforms from a close-knit village into a virtual ghost town. Few townsfolk can find work; guilt and hatred permeate the community with devastating results. As Mama Santos (Anita Blanch) watches one resident after another vacate the premises, her self-fulfilling prophecy comes full circle. Written...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (138 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Florentino is a poetry-writing telegraph operator who lives in a Central American city. He spots the graceful Fermina while making his rounds, and finds himself in love. While Florentino's mother encourages the courtship, Fermina's father absolutely forbids it. Years pass, and the well-born Dr. Urbino treats Fermina for a case of cholera. When Urbino proposes, Fermina accepts. A distraught Florentino decides to wait. With the help of his uncle, he...
31) Oedipus mayor
Publisher
Facets Video
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A local mayor is sent to a small town in the Colombian Andes to negotiate peace with the guerrilla revolutionaries, while there begins a romance with a widow of a war lord.
32) Fidel
Publisher
First Run/Icarus Films
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (91 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A documentary produced in Cuba celebrating the life and political career of Fidel Castro through archival footage, interviews with Castro and commentary by family, associates, former guerrilla fighters, politicians and historians. Castro is seen swimming with bodyguards in the ocean, visiting his childhood home and school, joking with his friend Nelson Mandela, meeting with Elian Gonzalez, and celebrating his birthday with the Buena Vista Social Club....
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"Sitting alone beside the languorous blue waters of the lagoon, Ana Magdalena Bach contemplates the men at the hotel bar. She has been happily married for twenty-seven years and has no reason to escape the life she has made with her husband and children. And yet, every August, she travels by ferry here to the island where her mother is buried, and for one night takes a new lover. Across sultry Caribbean evenings full of salsa and boleros, lotharios,...
Publisher
Planet Group Entertainment
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (44 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Good friend of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Mutis draws his own life-long wanderings to create the character and alter ego of 'Maqroll the Lookout', a modern, philosophizing seafaring adventurer.