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At the time of publication, the New York Times Book Review decried the novel as a “bizarrely contrived piece of literature, whose attempt, though valiant, at channeling the epiphanic style of Joyce, and the magical-realism of Garcia Marquez, is ultimately unconvincing”.
The paintings for which he is best known are most often an integration of still lifes and landscapes with a strong "ethereal" presence related to the Latin American school of magic realism and reminiscent of the land in which Macondo, the imaginary town written about in "100 Years of Solitude" by García Márquez the winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature, could have been set.
But she is also inspired by as well medieval writings as the Divine Comedy (Divina Commedia) by the Italian Dante Alighieri and the Germanic Edda found on Iceland as the more modern writers like Garcia Márquez and Tolkien.
In 1980 there was a Mexican Movie El Año de la Peste (The year of the plague), directed by famous Mexican director Felipe Cazals, with a screenplay written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez which was based on A Journal of the Plague Year.
García Márquez discusses this day at vivid length in the first volume of his memoirs, Living to Tell the Tale.
Latin American authors who figured in prominent literary critic Harold Bloom's The Western Canon list of the most enduring works of world literature include: Rubén Dário, Jorge Luis Borges, Alejo Carpentier, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Severo Sarduy, Reinaldo Arenas, Pablo Neruda, Octavio Paz, César Vallejo, Miguel Ángel Asturias, José Lezama Lima, José Donoso, Julio Cortázar, Gabriel García Márquez, Mario Vargas Llosa, Carlos Fuentes, and Carlos Drummond de Andrade.
It focuses heavily on García Márquez' family, schooling, and early career as a journalist and short story writer, and includes references to numerous real-life events that ended up in his novels in one form or another, including the Banana massacre that appears prominently in One Hundred Years of Solitude and the friend of his whose life and death were the model for Chronicle of a Death Foretold.
In his memoir Vivir para contarla (Living to Tell the Tale, 2002), García Márquez explained that the novel was inspired by his grandfather, who was also a colonel and who never received the pension he was promised.
The description of the rope on page 93 seems a lot like the magic realism in Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude.
Aracataca is the birthplace of Gabriel García Márquez (affectionately known as Gabo), and is the inspiration for the fictional town of Macondo.