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Gabriel García Márquez is a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist. García Márquez, affectionately known as "Gabo" throughout Latin America, is considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century. In 1982, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. He pursued a self-directed education that resulted in his leaving law school for a career in journalism. From early on, he showed no inhibitions in his criticism of Colombian and foreign politics. In 1958, he married Mercedes Barcha; they have two sons, Rodrigo and Gonzalo. He started as a journalist, and has written many acclaimed non-fiction works and short stories, but is best-known for his novels, such as One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) and Love in the Time of Cholera (1985). His works have achieved significant critical acclaim and widespread commercial success, most notably for popularizing a literary style labeled as magical realism, which uses magical elements and events in otherwise ordinary and realistic situations. Some of his works are set in a fictional village called Macondo, and most of them express the theme of solitude. : Source and more information

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Books in this Series

Spanish Short Stories 1 — Cuentos hispánicos 1

Gabriel García Márquez, Jorge Luis Borges, Juan Rulfo, Juan Carlos Onetti, Camilo José Cela

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This is a companion volume to the collections of Soviet, German, Italian, and French short stories which have already appeared in Penguin Parallel Texts. The stories selected are representative, of contemporary writing in Spanish from all parts, and seven of the eight included are the work of Spanish-American authors. The literal English translations, together with the notes and biographies of the writers, are intended to help English-speaking students of Spanish; but the book can also be enjoyed by readers with a knowledge of either language and an interest in modern literature. El presente volumen forma parte de la serie de historias cortas en las lenguas rusa, alemana, italiana y francesa que han aparecido previamente en la colecciónn Pinguino de Textos Paralelos. Los cuentos elegidos son representatives del estilo literario del español contemporaneo de diversas naciones. Siete de los ocho trabajos incluidos son por autores hispanoamericanos. La traduccion es literal y junto con las notas y biografía de los escritores tiene por objeto ayudar a los estudiantes ingleses de la lengua española. No obstante, este libro será también del agrado de los lectores de una y otra lengua interesados en literature moderna.

German short stories 2 =

David Constantine, Various

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Soviet Short Stories 2

Peter Reddaway

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This second volume of Soviet Short Stories includes pieces by Isaac Babel, Andrei Sinyavsky (Tertz) and Evgenii Zamyatin, whose famous prophetic novel "We", was acknowledged by Orwell as a model for his anti-Utopian 1984. These nine stories include the work of several young contemporary writers such as Bitov and Urusov, whose main concern is with the personal psychology and problems of young people; the linking of personal confusion with wider social issues, such as censorship, and the rejection by the young of the inhibited, dull and conformist life of their parents. The English translations which are printed in a parallel text are both literary and close to the Russian, and there are detailed notes and biographies to help the student.