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About the Author
Ilan Stavans is Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College.
Index
À la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time), 97
Academia Colombiana de la Lengua, 132
Achebe, Chinua, 98
Age of Independence, 79–80
Aguirre, Alberto, 132
“El ahogado más hermoso del mundo” (The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World), 111
Alcoriza, Luis, 142
Alfaro Siqueiros, David, 116
Alfred A. Knopf., 172
Alice in Wonderland, 106, 112
Allende, Isabel, 106, 141, 156
Alvarez Gardeazábal, Gustavo, 54
“El amargo encanto de la máquina de escribir,” 53
Amaru, 152
Amaya Amador, Ramón, 21
Americas, 97, 108–9, 151, 157–8
American Civil War, 52
Angarita, Father Francisco C., 16, 34–5, 40
Ángel Asturias, Miguel, 12, 21, 140, 162, 170, 198n1
Angulo, Guillermo, 132
Anthology of Fantastic Literature, 48
L’Anthologie de l’humour noir, 110
Apuleyo Mendoza, Plinio, 8, 30, 45–6, 48, 84–5, 87–91, 115, 140, 145, 154
Apuleyos Mendoza, Soledad, 85
Aracataca, Colombia, 6–7, 13, 15–39, 62, 72, 141, 146, 178
description of, 17–18
and tourism, 33–5
See banana plantations; United Fruit Company
Armed Forces of Colombia, 63
Arnold, Mathew, 12, 168
Arreola, Juan José, 123
Atlantic Monthly, 168
Auqué i Masdeu, Xavier, 67
As I Lay Dying, 60–1
autonomism, 110
El Autonomista, 22
The Autumn of the Patriarch, 26, 162
Balboa, Vasco Nuñez de, 21
Balcells, Carmen, 99–100, 102–3, 172
Balzac, Honoré de, 140, 149
banana massacre, 24–6, 35
banana plantations, 18–20, 24–6, 35
“banana republics,” 20
Barbachano Ponce, Miguel, 126, 130
Barbosa, Antonio, 34
Barcha Prado, Mercedes Raquel (wife), 4, 44–5, 87–9, 91, 115, 125, 142, 144, 152–4, 160–1, 164–5
Bargas, Marcelle, 149
Barral, Carlos, 99–100, 154, 164
Bastidas, Rodrigo de, 21
Batista, Fulgencio, 90
Battle of Bucaramanga, 23
Battle of Peralonso, 23
Battle of La Tribuna, 22
Bay of Pigs invasion, 91, 93
Beat Revolution, 169
Beckett, Samuel, 98 “Before the Law,” 48
Benítez, Fernando, 123
Bible, 3, 9, 40–1, 62, 112
Biblioteca Breve prize, 100
Big Mama’s Funeral, 88–9, 169, 182
biographers, 5–6, 11
Bioy Casares, Adolfo, 48, 156
“Bitterness for Three Sleepwalkers,” 61
Blanco, Sosa, 90
Blue . . ., 96
El Bogotazo, 5, 35, 54–7, 59
Bolívar, Simón, 39
Bolívar Department, Colombia, 19, 24, 45
Book of Genesis, 41
El Boom, 1, 5, 80, 95–6, 98–105, 124, 141, 150, 154–66
The Boom in Spanish-American Literature: A Personal History, 103
Borges, Jorge Luis, 2, 5, 8, 41, 48–50, 52, 61, 64, 98, 101, 109, 150–1
Boston Fruit Company, 19
Boswell, James, 6
Botero, Fernando, 122
Breton, André, 66, 109–10, 112
The Brief Life, 129
Bryce Echenique, Alfredo, 100
Buendía family (One Hundred Years of Solitude), 3, 4, 21–2, 29, 30–2, 35–7, 40- 1, 45–6, 69–70, 89, 112–13, 135–6, 141, 145, 147, 152, 163, 173–8, 181–2
Aurelianos, 3, 4, 22, 45, 70
Colonel Aureliano Buendía, 3, 21–2, 113, 145, 174, 182
home, 35–6
José Arcadio, 3, 36, 45–6, 135–6, 173–4
Úrsula Iguarán, 3, 29, 32, 36–7, 145
women of, 30–1
Buenos Aires, Argentina, 3, 49–50, 61, 100–1, 107, 123, 147, 150, 152–3, 157–61, 165
Buñuel, Luis, 8, 66, 121–2, 127, 142
The Burning Plain, 131
Busquets, Narciso, 130
Caballero Calderón, Eduardo, 54
Cabrera Infante, Guillermo, 154, 156
Calle del Crimen (Crime Street), 59
Cambio, 28
Canfield, Cass, 171
Canfield, Jr., Cass, 103, 171–2, 178
Cano, Guillermo, 74
Canto General, 21
Cantos, 170
Carballo, Emanuel, 124
Caraballo, Gilver, 35
Carbonell, Rafael, 68
Cárdenas, Lázaro, 116
“Caribe mágico” (Magical Caribbean), 19
Carlos Onetti, Juan, 52, 129, 156
Caro, Miguel Antonio, 22
Carpentier, Alejo, 53, 80, 107–9, 112, 147, 157, 162
Carrasquilla, Tomás, 54
Carroll, Lewis, 106, 112, 135
Cartagena Film Festival, 144–5
Cartier-Bresson, Henri, 116
Carver, Raymond, 10
La casa (The House), 59–60, 70, 88
“La casa de los Buendía” (The Buendía House), 69, 140–1
La casa grande (The Big House), 26, 141
Casa Museo Gabriel García Márquez, 35–7
Casa del telegrafista, 34
Castellón, Gustavo, 35
The Castle, 50, 97
Castro, Fidel, 5, 9, 89–90, 92, 101–2, 125
Catholic Church, 5, 16, 40–1, 45, 83, 118
Cela, Camilo José, 100
Cepeda Samudio, Álvaro, 8, 21, 26–7, 65–7, 69–70, 141, 145, 153
Cervantes, Miguel de, 2, 10, 42, 71, 140, 150–1, 189n24
See Don Quixote
A Change of Skin, 155
Charrière, Henri, 19
Chavez, Cesar, 169
Chicano Movement, 169
Un chien andalou, 121–2
Chiquita Brands International, 20
Christianity, 111
Chronicle of a Death Foretold, 11, 28, 69–70
Chumacero, Ali, 122
Cinecità, 120
La ciudad y los perros (The Time of the Hero), 155
Civil Right Movement (U.S.), 169
Claver, Pedro, 72
Colegio San José, 42–3
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 4, 142–3
Collected Stories, 61
the Colombian novel, 53–4
colonialism, 3, 9, 20–1, 24, 58, 64, 72, 82, 98, 143, 151, 156
Columbus, Christopher, 21, 51
“committed literature,” 63–4
Communist Party, 25, 80–5, 102, 116, 180
Communist Revolution (1958–59), 5, 35
Congreso Internacional de la Lengua Española (IV), 124
Congreso Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana (XIII), 164
Connolly, Cyril, 181
Conrad, Joseph, 51, 140
Conservative Party, 22–3, 54–6, 63, 87
la convivencia, 56
Coppola, Francis Ford, 180
El coronel no tiene quien le escriba (No One Writes to the Colonel), 89, 95, 98, 102, 124, 127, 130, 132, 169, 192
Cortázar, Julio, 6, 8, 80, 147, 155–7, 162, 169–70
Cosío Villegas, Daniel, 101
Cova García, Luis, 149
Cristero war, 128
Cromos, 28, 84
Crónica, 69, 140
Cuban Revolution, 9, 89–92
“El cuento del cuento,” 69
La Cueva de la Mafia (the mafia cave), 14, 144, 181
Darío, Rubén, 48, 69, 80, 96, 143
Dark Green, Bright Red, 21
Day of the Dead, 109–10
de la Cabada, Juan, 126–7
de Torre, Guillermo, 61
The Death of Artemio Cruz, 124
Deep South (U.S.), 92–3
Defoe, Daniel, 62, 135
de la Cruz, Sor Juana Inés, 5
del Río, Dolores, 119
Delia Zapata, 85
Delmar, Meira, 66–7
“Dialogue with the Mirror,” 61
The Diary of Christopher Columbus, 18
Diary of the Lecumberri, 122
Díaz, Eugenio, 54
Dictionary of Imaginary Places, 135–8
Los diez mandamientos (The Ten Commandments), 13
“Do You Hear the Dogs Bark?”, 129
Dohmann, Barbara, 133–4, 153
Domingo Perón, Juan, 50
Don Quixote, 2, 42, 71, 108, 150, 189n24
Donoso, José, 103–4, 156, 166
Dos Passos, John, 51
Eco, 152
Edel, Leon, 5–6
Ediciones Era, 101, 123, 132, 154
Editorial Losada (Buenos Aires), 49, 61, 100–1, 154
Editorial Revista de Occidente, 49
Editorial Sudamericana, 3, 100–1, 147, 153–4, 157–9, 175
Elena Fergusson, María, 34
Elio, María Luisa, 123, 125–6, 151
Eliot, T. S., 96
Elite (Caracas), 7, 84
“End of Game,” 157
Enlightenment, 108
Êpoca de oro, 118–19
Escuadrón 201 (201st Air Fighter Squadron), 116
El Espectador (Bogotá), 7, 15–16, 28, 52- 3, 72–7, 81, 83, 120–1, 132, 152
Esquire, 132
Esso, 121–2
“En este pueblo no hay ladrones” (There Are No Thieves in This Town), 13–14, 127, 129
Estudios Churubusco, 118
Europe, 79–87
“Eva está dentro de su gato” (Eve Is Inside Her Cat), 53
Fallas, Carlos Luis, 21
Fanon, Franz, 80
Faulkner, William, 8, 51–2, 60–1, 92–3, 120, 129, 132, 140, 178
See Yoknapatawpha County
Félix Fuenmayor, José, 68
Fernández, Emilio (“El Indio”), 119–20
Fernández-Bermejo, Miguel, 148
Fernández-Braso, Miguel, 131
Fernández Renowitsky, Juan B., 43
Figueroa, Carlos A., 126–7
Figueroa, Gabriel, 119, 130
Fin del mundo, 162
Finnegans Wake, 98
Fiorillo, Heriberto, 152
Flaubert, Gustave, 34
Flores, Ángel, 109
Fondo de Cultura Económica, 101
French New Wave, 120
French Parnassianism, 96
Freud, Sigmund, 110, 113, 168
Fuenmayor, Alfonso, 65, 67–9, 79, 152–3
Fuentes, Carlos, 8, 41, 80, 92–3, 100, 103- 4, 1
18, 122–5, 128, 130, 147, 151, 155–7, 162–3
Fuentes, Fernando de, 118
Fuguet, Alberto, 10
Los funerals de la Mamá Grande (Big Mama’s Funeral), 88–9, 169, 182
Gaitán, Jorge Eliécer, 5, 35, 52, 54–7, 63
See El Bogotazo
Gallimard, 104
El gallo de oro, 8–9, 130, 211
Galvis, Silvia, 27
Gambaro, Griselda, 161
García Ascot, Jomí, 123, 125–6, 151
García Barcha, Gonzalo (son), 126, 194n7
García Barcha, Rodrigo (son), 89, 91, 115, 123, 194n7
“García Márquez” (poem), 162–3
García Márquez, Aida Rosa (sister), 27, 39
García Márquez, Gabriel
birth of, 15–16
as book salesman, 72
on the Caribbean, 18–19
childhood of, 29–37, 39–43
on communism, 82, 85
on critics, 178–80
descriptions of, 115, 160
and drawing, 40
education of, 42–4, 46–7, 54, 82
and Europe, 79–87
and fame, 7, 160–7, 182
film criticism, 73, 81, 120
historical influence of, 4–5
and love, 45
marriage, 87–8
on Neruda, 163–4
and pharmacists, 34
and poetry, 47–8
and politics, 44
reading list, 41
relationships with women, 30–1, 37
and religion, 16–17
siblings of, 19, 27, 42–3
and sports, 121
on translation, 170–1
writer’s block, 8, 131
writing, 13–15, 53, 63–4, 71, 134, 139–54, 167, 179–80
See journalism; Latin American literature; magic realism; Mexican film industry
García Márquez, Eligio Gabriel (brother), 27–9
García Márquez, Jaime (brother), 27
García Márquez, Luis Enrique (brother), 15–16, 27
García Márquez, Margarita (Margot) (sister), 27, 39
Los García Márquez, 27
García Márquez: Historia de un deicidio, 139, 164
García Martínez, Gabriel Eligio (father), 16, 19, 23–4, 28, 31–2, 34, 37, 39, 43
García Riera, Emilio, 127
Gavaldón, Roberto, 130
The General in His Labyrinth, 172
Gilard, Jacques, 81, 84
Gómez, Laureano, 63
Gómez de Castro, Julio, 68
Gordimer, Nadine, 98
Gramma, 62–3
Grau, Enrique, 66
Great Britain, 87
The Green House (La casa verde), 100, 141, 155
Greene, Graham, 50–1
Grossman, Edith, 172