The Epistolary Destiny of García Márquez
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.elc.354060Keywords:
Latin American Boom, Correspondence, Gabriel García Márquez, Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza, Colombian FictionAbstract
Through access to the Gabriel García Márquez correspondence between 1961 and 1971, it is now possible an understanding of what the author named the destiny of his “epistolary literature”: that of the demythologization of his work and his lifetime. Far from being dissappointing, the end result is an adjacent version of myths and stories told over the decades, a version in the double genre of testimony and nonfiction. Three myths are intended to be dispelled: that of the pauperized writer, One Hundred Years of Solitude as a spontaneous generation work and the self-proclaimed anti-intelectualism of the author.
Downloads
References
Collazos, O. (1983). García Márquez: La soledad y la gloria. Su vida y su obra. Barcelona: Plaza & Janés.
Cortázar, J.; Fuentes, C.; García Márquez, G. y Vargas Llosa, M. (2023). Las cartas del Boom. Barcelona: Alfaguara.
Donoso, J. (2021). Historia personal del “boom” y otros escritos. Santiago de Chile: Universidad Diego Portales.
Fuentes, C. (1964). Señores no se engañen, los viejos han muerto: viven Vargas Llosa, Cortázar, Carpentier. México: La Cultura en México 128, pp. i-xvi.
García Márquez, E. (2001). Tras las claves de Melquíades: historia de Cien años de soledad. Bogotá: Norma.
García Márquez, G. y Mendoza, P. A. (1982). El olor de la guayaba. Bogotá: Oveja Negra.
García Márquez, G. (2003). Notas de prensa. Obra periodística 5: 1961-1984. México: Diana.
García Márquez, G. (s.f.a). Cartas a Álvaro Cepeda Samudio. Container 64.11, Outgoing Correspondence of Gabriel García Márquez, Harry Ransom Center, Universidad de Texas en Austin.
García Márquez, G. (s.f.b). Cartas a Germán Vargas. Container 64.12, Outgoing Correspondence of Gabriel García Márquez, Harry Ransom Center, Universidad de Texas en Austin.
García Márquez, G. (s.f.c). Cartas a Guillermo Cano. Guillermo Cano Isaza Collection of Gabriel García Márquez, Harry Ransom Center, Universidad de Texas en Austin.
García Márquez, G. (s.f.d). Cartas a Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza. Container 1.1, Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza Collection of Gabriel García Márquez Correspondence, Harry Ransom Center, Universidad de Texas en Austin.
Guibert, R. (1973). Seven voices. New York: Knopf.
Martin, G. (2009). Gabriel García Márquez. Una vida. Buenos Aires: Debate.
Mendoza, P. A. (1984). La llama y el hielo. Bogotá: Planeta.
Mendoza, P. A. (2000). Aquellos tiempos con Gabo. Barcelona: Plaza & Janés.
Mendoza, P. A. (2009). Un García Márquez desconocido. Barcelona: Emecé.
Mendoza, P. A. (2013). Gabo: cartas y recuerdos. Barcelona: Ediciones B.
Piglia, R (2019). Los diarios de Emilio Renzi. Barcelona: Debolsillo.
Rama, Á. (1981). El “boom” en perspectiva. En: Más allá del boom. Literatura y mercado. México: Marcha Editores, pp. 51-110.
Rodríguez Monegal, E. (2003). “Novedad y anacronismo en Cien años de soledad” (1968). En: Obra selecta. Caracas: Biblioteca Ayacucho, pp. 660-687.
Saldívar, D. (2014). García Márquez. El viaje a la semilla. Bogotá: Planeta.
Santana-Acuña, Á. (2020). Ascent to Glory. How One Hundred Years of Solitude Was Written and Became a Global Classic. New York: Columbia University Press.
Vargas Llosa, M. (1971). García Márquez: historia de un deicidio. Barcelona: Barral.
Vargas Llosa, M. (2017). García Márquez por Vargas Llosa. En: El País, Madrid, 10 de julio.
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2024 Estudios de Literatura Colombiana
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Authors who publish in Estudios de Literatura Colombiana must meet the following criteria for authorship:
- Substantial contributions to the conception and design of the work; and the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work.
- Drafting the work or revising it critically for important intellectual content.
- Final approval of the version to be published.
- Agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved.
In addition, the authors agree to the following terms:
- The authors are accountable for the content of the work.
- Estudios de Literatura Colombiana is not responsible for aspects related to copying, plagiarism or fraud that may appear in the articles published in it.
- It is the authors' responsibility to obtain the necessary permissions to reproduce any copyrighted material. When photographs or personal data are to be reproduced and disseminated in printed or digital form, informed consent is required. Therefore, this requirement must be met by the authors upon receipt of the manuscript.
- The authors retain moral rights and transfer their economic rights to Estudios de Literatura Colombiana, which will correspond to the Universidad de Antioquia, to publish the articles on the website, brochures, social networks, distribute electronic copies, include them in indexing services, directories, national and international database repositories, under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International Commercial License (CC BY-NC-SA).
- The authors will sign the declaration of transfer of economic rights to the Estudios de Literatura Colombiana, after acceptance of the manuscript.
- Authors may not withdraw the manuscript once it has been approved for publication. Otherwise they will have to bear the costs of the process. If they intend to withdraw the manuscript before its approval, they must send an official statement approved by all the authors.
- The material created by you may be distributed, copied and exhibited by third parties if and only if it is specified in the credits. No commercial benefit may be obtained and derived works must be compulsorily under the same terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International Commercial License (CC BY-NC-SA) used in the original work.
