![]() ![]() Although “Death Constant Beyond Love” is a somewhat straightforward story for García Márquez, the indicators of the experimentation of this literary movement remain, with inanimate objects appearing lifelike and taking on a sentient quality. Their works are typically categorized by experimentation, non-linear narratives, and surreal or fantastic elements. This period saw authors from the global south gaining an international foothold. García Márquez is often associated with a literary movement of the 1960’s and ‘70’s called the Latin American Boom (or El Boom) with young Latin American authors such as Julio Cortázar (from Argentina), Mario Vargas Llosa (from Peru), and Carlos Fuentes (from Mexico). His health declined in the 2000’s after he was diagnosed with cancer, and he died in Mexico City in 2014. In 1982, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature for works including One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera. He was politically active throughout his career and was initially regarded by the US as a communist threat until the commercial success of his popular novels. ![]() Garcia Marquez married Mercedes Barcha and together they had two sons in 19. Garcia Marquez traveled across Europe, studying cinema and continuing writing, but he found his greatest commercial success in 1967 when he published One Hundred Years of Solitude( Cien anos de soledad) in Buenos Aires. In 1955 he moved to Geneva, then to Rome, then to Paris. ![]() Garcia Marquez then moved to Cartagena where he worked as a journalist, in Colombia and abroad, for the newspaper El Universal. In 1947, Garcia Marquez studied law in Bogotá while writing short stories and poetry he found some initial success, but his budding writing career was sidelined because of the Bogotá riots of 1948. García Márquez was raised by his maternal grandparents, who would prove huge influences on his writing his grandfather had been a Liberal Colonel in the War of a Thousand Days, and his grandmother’s fondness for both Catholic folklore and indigenous Colombian mythology initiated his turn towards the magical. He was born in 1927 in Aracataca, a small town near the northern, tropical coast of Colombia to a mother of indigenous Guajira Indian descent and a Bolivian father. Gabriel García Márquez was a Colombian writer, screenwriter, and journalist widely regarded as one of the most influential authors of the 20th century. ![]()
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