By Rubén Pelayo
Grasp of magic realism, exclusive journalist and picture critic, buddy of worldwide leaders starting from Fidel Castro to Pres. invoice Clinton, Gabriel Garc?a M?rquez improbably emerged from vague beginnings to turn into an writer extra loved of readers around the globe than the other residing author. His plots and protean characters plunge readers into the area of myth, but their common allure, as this biography indicates, is deeply rooted within the particularity of Garc?a M?rquez's personal idiosyncratic formative years and his later large travels, all undertaken with the stressed interest and zest for all times that he manages to awaken in his readers.
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As early as September 1948, he had written commentaries on cinema. , known the world over as Charlie Chaplin, had said about the American film industry. Chaplin, the famous mime, was unhappy with what film critics had said about his film Monsieur Verdoux. Chaplin co-wrote it with Orson Welles, directed CINEMA, EUROPE, AND MARRIAGE 33 it, and played the main character, who gives the film its title.
He was back in the same gloomy city of the cachacos, whose manners, he had thought, were too stiff, and among whom he had felt like a stranger. This time, however, he would be there on his own terms, not just to please his parents. They had sent him to Bogotá expecting him to earn a college degree. 1 This time, it was all about himself. He was 26 years old, still single, and although literature was his only love, what he wrote would primarily be journalistic articles. In this new phase 32 GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ of his life, journalism would continue to provide him with the means to support himself, travel within the country, and eventually go to Europe.
As early as September 1948, he had written commentaries on cinema. , known the world over as Charlie Chaplin, had said about the American film industry. Chaplin, the famous mime, was unhappy with what film critics had said about his film Monsieur Verdoux. Chaplin co-wrote it with Orson Welles, directed CINEMA, EUROPE, AND MARRIAGE 33 it, and played the main character, who gives the film its title.