An Interview with Gabriel García Márquez

Conversations with Gabriel García Márquez

【Editor's Recommendations】
★ The Chinese edition of "Conversations with Gabriel García Márquez" is grandly launched, a standard companion read for "One Hundred Years of Solitude," featuring eleven important interviews, many of which are translated into Chinese for the first time.
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★ Eleven literary lessons from a Nobel laureate master, showcasing García Márquez's creative trajectory over two decades, and drawing a private literary map of García Márquez.
Listen to García Márquez personally reveal his works:
His personal favorite, "Leaf Storm," "One Hundred Years of Solitude," which he refused to interpret "seriously," "Love in the Time of Cholera," which contains his life experiences, "Chronicle of a Death Foretold," meticulously structured like clockwork, and "The General in His Labyrinth," his "revenge" work...
Listen to García Márquez's conversations across time and space with literary giants:
Faulkner, Kafka, Graham Greene, Capote, Dostoevsky, Borges, Hemingway…
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★ Eleven adventurous journeys: fly with the master storyteller García Márquez to a magical kingdom, delve into a ghostly hell, listen to him jokingly recount cruel and bizarre stories, and explore various fields such as Latin American literature, history, culture, and politics.
Banana plantations overflowing with exotic charm, sea bream so cold it burns, a streetcar that mysteriously disappears, lights that drown children like water, a naked Bolívar, a dictatorial killer…
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★ Eleven face-to-face conversations, searching for the key to unlock García Márquez's world: love and solitude.
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★ The Chinese edition is translated by Professor Xu Zhiqiang, a García Márquez scholar, who also provides a lengthy introductory guide.
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★ The binding is meticulously crafted by renowned designer Zhou Weiwei, a multiple recipient of the "Most Beautiful Books in China" award. The cover features carefully selected famous quotes from García Márquez and uses hand-crumpled paper, offering a retro experience and a gentle touch.
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【Content Introduction】
Gabriel García Márquez, the author of "One Hundred Years of Solitude," a titan of Latin American literature, whose works are bestsellers worldwide and whose level of attention rivals that of movie stars. Yet, the only role he truly wished to play was an ancient and mysterious one—that of a storyteller. "Conversations with Gabriel García Márquez" selects important interviews given by this master storyteller over two decades, clearly and systematically outlining his early, middle, and late creative trajectory, providing invaluable first-hand material for understanding and studying García Márquez and his work. Here, García Márquez's "improvisations" are gathered, where he freely recounts stories that are both true and illusory: his childhood, his grandparents, his love life; his journalistic career, the hardships and joys of creation; his Kafka, his Faulkner; his Caribbean roots, his left-wing stance, his friendship with Castro; his views on film and music… This collection of interviews is like a magical story box, recording García Márquez's true voice, intimate moments, and sparks of thought. Magical realism flows here, and the art of conversation is fully displayed.

2019-07-01

南京大学出版社

Nanjing University Press·Watchman

424

9787305219979