by Dasso Saldivar · Resen · tapa dura · ISBN 8270105001024
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«Gabriel García Márquez: El viaje a la semilla. La biografía» is the biography of Gabriel García Márquez by Dasso Saldívar, in hardback, published by Resen.
Dasso Saldívar reconstructs the life of Gabriel García Márquez through travels to the places of his relatives and friends, hundreds of interviews, and research in newspaper archives and files of several countries. The book frames García Márquez's work within magical realism and the Boom, with Cien años de soledad as a landmark, and addresses the Nobel Prize.
The Spanish edition has 455 pages, belongs to the collection «Biografías Vivas», and was published in 1997.
For readers interested in Gabriel García Márquez, magical realism, and Latin American literature.
Gabriel José García Márquez was a Colombian writer and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo or Gabito throughout Latin America. Considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century, particularly in the Spanish language, he was awarded the 1972 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature. He pursued a self-directed education that resulted in leaving law school for a career in journalism. From early on he showed no inhibitions in his criticism of Colombian and foreign politics. In 1958, he married Mercedes Barcha Pardo; they had two sons, Rodrigo and Gonzalo.
