Showing results by author "Gabriel García Márquez"

One of the 20th century's enduring works, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a widely beloved and acclaimed novel known throughout the world and the ultimate achievement in a Nobel Prize-winning career. The novel tells the story of the rise and fall of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family. Rich and brilliant, it is a chronicle of life, death, and the tragicomedy of humankind. In the beautiful, ridiculous, and tawdry story of the Buendía family, one sees all of humanity, just as in the history, myths, growth, and decay of Macondo, one sees all of Latin America.

From the Nobel Prize-winning author of One Hundred Years of Solitude comes a masterly evocation of an unrequited passion so strong that it binds two people's lives together for more than half a century. In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career, he whiles away the years in 622 affairs - yet he reserves his heart for Fermina. Her husband dies at last, and Florentino purposefully attends the funeral....

Con estas palabras empieza una novela ya legendaria en losanales de la literatura universal, una de las aventuras literarias másfascinantes del siglo veinte. Millones de ejemplares de Cien años de soledad leídos en todas las lenguas y el Premio Nobelde Literatura coronando una obra que se había abierto paso a "boca a boca" - comogusta decir el escritor - son la más palpable demostración de que la aventurafabulosa de la familia Buendía-Iguarán, con sus milagros, fantasías,obsesiones, tragedias.

De jóvenes, Florentino Ariza y Fermina Daza se enamoran apasionadamente, pero Fermina eventualmente decide casarse con un médico rico y de muy buena familia. Florentino estáanonadado, pero es un romántico. Su carrera en los negocios florece, y aunquesostiene 622 pequeños romances, su corazón todavía pertenece a Fermina. Cuandoal fin el esposo de ella muere, Florentino acude al funeral con toda intención.

On the eve of his 90th birthday, a bachelor decides to give himself a wild night of love with a virgin. As is his habit - he has purchased hundreds of women - he asks a madam for her assistance. The 14-year-old girl who is procured for him is enchanting, but exhausted as she is from caring for siblings and her job sewing buttons, she can do little but sleep. Yet with this sleeping beauty at his side, it is he who awakens to a romance he has never known. Tender, knowing, and slyly comic, Memories of My Melancholy Whores is an exquisite addition to a master's work.

"100 års ensomhed" er den fabulerende farverige og fantastiske krønike om den ensomt beliggende landsby Macondo og dens store Buendia-slægt med dens mangfoldige skæbner. Det er ægteparret José og Ursula Buendia, fætter og kusine, som engang i 1800-tallets begyndelse grundlægger flækken. Márquez befolker den med en broget skare af lidenskabelige kvinder, eventyrlystne mænd, pjaltede sigøjnere og hvileløse ånder.

Zwei großartige Schauspielerinnen lesen ihre Lieblingsgeschichten! Hannelore und Nina Hoger erzählen vom Salz des Lebens: Freiheit, Sehnsucht, Neid und Schadenfreude; Mord, Verzweiflung, Begehren und tiefe Liebe. All das und viel mehr sind Themen der Erzählungen der herausragenden Autoren Tania Blixen ("Der Ring"), Amos Oz ("Zwei Frauen"), Zsófia Bán ("Armani und die Liebe"), Doris Lessing, Wolfgang Borchert, Ernest Hemingway u.a.

Mit seinem Roman "Hundert Jahre Einsamkeit" gelang Gabriel García Márquez 1967 der Durchbruch als Schriftsteller. Dieser moderne Klassiker der Weltliteratur erzählt die Geschichte vom Aufstieg und Niedergang der Familie Buendía und des von ihr gegründeten Dorfes Macondo, das zunächst wie das Paradies erscheint. Abgeschnitten vom Rest der Welt durch Sümpfe, Urwald und eine undurchdringliche Sierra, ist es der Ort, an dem sich alle Träume, Alpträume und Entdeckungen des Menschen noch einmal zu wiederholen scheinen.

Written with compassionate realism and wit, the stories in this mesmerizing collection depict the disparities of town and village life in South America, of the frightfully poor and outrageously rich, of memories and illusions, and of lost opportunities and present joys. Stories include "No One Writes to the Colonel", "Tuesday Siesta", "One of These Days", "There Are No Thieves in This Town", "Balthazar's Marvelous Afternoon", "Montiel's Widow", "One Day After Saturday", "Artificial Roses", and "Big Mama's Funeral".