{"product_id":"conversations-with-gabriel-garcia-marquez","title":"Conversations with Gabriel García Márquez","description":"\u003cp\u003eGabriel García Márquez (b. 1927) is a sophisticated literary artist with broad popularity. His masterpiece, \u003cem\u003eOne Hundred Years of Solitude\u003c\/em\u003e, has sold tens of millions of copies worldwide. In 1982, he received the Nobel Prize for Literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eConversations with Gabriel García Márquez\u003c\/em\u003e starts with the years of his early phenomenal success and continues through his most recent, turn-of-the-century exchanges. He speaks of his impoverished childhood, his life as an indifferent student, his apprenticeship as a journalist, the inspiration that led to the writing of his most renowned novel, the difficulties brought by fame, and his leftist opinions. Works such as \u003cem\u003eThe Autumn of the Patriarch\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eLove in the Time of Cholera\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe General in His Labyrinth\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eNews of a Kidnapping\u003c\/em\u003e are discussed in detail.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen interviewed by Hispanic journalists, García Márquez chats spontaneously and frankly about all sorts of topics, including himself. Those conversations, translated into English for the first time, offer a fascinating glimpse of the Colombian genius at his most down-to-earth, informal, and relaxed. Taken together with seminal pieces from the \u003cem\u003eAtlantic Monthly\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e, and other English-language periodicals, \u003cem\u003eConversations with Gabriel García Márquez\u003c\/em\u003e offers a nuanced, multi-faceted view of one of contemporary literature's greatest masters.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGene H. Bell-Villada of Williamstown, Massachusetts, is chair of the Department of Romance Languages at Williams College and the author of National Book Critics Circle Award finalist \u003cem\u003eArt for Art's Sake \u0026amp; Literary Life: How Politics \u0026amp; Markets Helped Shape the Ideology and Culture of Aestheticism, 1790-1990\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eOverseas American: Growing Up Gringo in the Tropics\u003c\/em\u003e (University Press of Mississippi).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University Press of Mississippi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47135343476788,"sku":"9781578067848","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0699\/8638\/5972\/files\/imageloader_2b135f2f-83d8-4a8e-8e62-f6502dc32ddc.jpg?v=1759072232","url":"https:\/\/worldcaribbeanbooks.com\/products\/conversations-with-gabriel-garcia-marquez","provider":"World Caribbean Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}