The literary works of Gabriel García Márquez should be read by all Colombians, and not just because he is our Nobel.
We, as Colombians, will never be able to objectively appreciate the importance of this author for humanity, culture and literature in general.
Love in the time of cholera
It tells the love story between Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza, who live a romance that transcends time, because they meet very young but separate and then get together again when maybe for what, or not?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tda7e-nE34g
One hundred years of solitude
This work is considered the pinnacle of magical realism; tells the entire story of the Buendía family through seven generations in the fictional town of Macondo.
The colonel has no one to write to him
After The War of a Thousand Days (1899 to 1902), a retired colonel who lives with his wife in a remote town in the middle of the country, awaits, in the midst of poverty, a pension for having been a hero of the country.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AhRsi18dEY
A Chronicle of a Death Foretold
It recounts the death of the young Santiago Nasar, accused of allegedly having had an affair with Ángela Vicario. It is her brothers who commit her crime after her marriage, when her husband discovers that she was not a virgin.
Love and Other Demons
A girl from the prominent families of Cartagena is bitten by a dog and goes crazy, so she is confined in a convent and exorcised, however, in her confinement she finds love, although it does not have a happy ending.
Twelve Pilgrim Tales
In an anthology of stories that have in common anecdotes and extraordinary experiences that happen to Latin Americans when they travel to Europe.
Big Mama’s Funerals
It is a compilation of stories that take place in rural and Macondian Colombia. In the one that gives the title to the work, it happens that Big Mama dies and personalities like the President of the Republic and the Pope attend her funeral, but in the town it rains dead birds.
The general in his labyrinth
It is a fictionalized biography that freely explores the character of Simón Bolívar, liberated from Colombia and other Latin American countries.
Litter
It also happens in Macondo. It is about the fight of Colonel Aureliano Buen to bury a doctor, an old friend of his, whom the people hated for having refused to attend to some patients.
The incredible and sad story of the candid Eréndira and her heartless grandmother
An old woman takes care of her granddaughter, but exploits her as a servant. As the young woman is a sleepwalker, she accidentally burns down her house, and the grandmother forces her to pay her through prostitution.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpXSlNLw0lo
Isabel watching it rain in Macondo
It is a play in monologue format written by Gabo especially to be staged, but it can be read as a book to complement the Macondian universe.
the bad hour
After the civil war, the conservatives come to town to persecute the liberals, but what really happens is that a massacre is unleashed between neighbors for personal reasons disguised as political.
Live to tell
In addition to being an account of his memoirs, this work is a revelation, as Gabo tells in detail the origin of many of the characters in his stories.
Diatribe of love against a sitting man
A woman about to celebrate 50 years of marriage decides to reveal all her feelings to her husband, from the most innocent to the most hopeless.
Memory of my sad whores
It tells the story of a lonely and crafty old man who throughout his life only had relationships with women if they were prostitutes; What he didn’t know is that this is how he would find love.
Story of a castaway
It journalistically reconstructs the story of a castaway, the only survivor of 8 people. It was a serialized report by The viewer and later published as a book.
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