Gabriel Garcia Marquez

by Grace Kim and Amy Sickels

Book Overview

Editor, Harold Bloom cites the literary origins of Gabriel Garcia Marquez as ""Faulkner, crossed by Kafka."" A Colombian writer and Nobel Prize winner, Marquez is best known for his novels ""One... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 079108115X
• ISBN13: 9780791081150
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Chelsea House Publications
• Length: 129 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 14 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 9 to 12

Customer Reviews

An informed and informative biography of Gabriel Garcia Marques

In "Gabriel Garcia Marquez", Harold Bloom (Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University) provides readers with an informed and informative biography of Gabriel Garcia Marques, the South American writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature and whose most widely known novel for English readers is "One Hundred years of Solitude". "Gabriel Garcia Marquez" features a critical, scholarly, and thought-provoking essay and analysis, supplemented with details about the writer and his life. Also very highly recommended reading for inclusion into highschool, college, and community library Literary Studies collections are Professor Harold Blooms' "James Baldwin"; "Herman Melville" ; "William Blake"; "Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451"; "Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five"; "Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis"; and "Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie".