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Gabriel
GarciaMarquez
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The Life of Gabriel Garicia Marquez
On March 6, 1928, in a small Columbian town called Aracataca, a great
author Gabriel Garcia Marquez was born. Marquez's childhood was lived with
his mother's grandparents. Marquez was estranged with his parents, and
did not get to have any relationship with them until he was older. His
grandfather had sixteen children, and his grandmother was extremely superstitious.
He lived as a poor lower class man in a house with his grandparents, his
aunts, and "ghosts". During his childhood, Columbia was going through the
"Banana Massacre". His life was not affected greatly because of his poor
status.Marquez started his career as a journalist for a series of liberal
South american newspapers in the 1940’s. He toyed with fiction as a young
man, however his first true efforts were negative critiques of Latin American
writers. The result was the short story “The Third Resignation” which received
positive reviews. “Leaf Storm”, “No one writes to the colonel” and “In
the Evil” hour were dark and erie novels he wrote. These were heavily influenced
by the works of Franz Kafka. After several years of writers block, in 1967
Marquez wrote “100 Years of solitude” which was a story of several generations
of a colombian family as his grandmother would have told it, with
a lot of supernatural occurences and much sincerity. Marquez set the standard
for Magical Realism which he continued in his works.Currently Marquez is
71 years old and he lives in Mexico City.
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