"A fine guide, especially recommended for students....Provides concise overviews.... Makes an easily digested introduction."Bookwatch "Succinct and easy-to-read synopsis of the unusual-even dysfunctional-life." Foreword Magazine Latin American literature was never primitive, yet from its beginnings it was suffused with a fresh, often childish lyricism. Garca Marquez stands on the shoulders of a great Latin American literary heritage, but he is a modern rarity: a writer with aspirations to high art who also remains hugely popular.
For those who fall under his spell, his novel One Hundred Years of Solitude is one of the richest literary dreams ever written. Its "magic realism" has influenced writers from New York to Paris to Tokyo with its endlessly imaginative vitality. In Garca Marquez in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern offers a concise, expert account of Garca Marquez 's life and ideas, and explains their influence on literature and on man's struggle to understand his place in the world. The book also includes selections from Garca Marquez 's writings; a list of his chief works in English translation; a chronology of his life and times; and recommended reading for those who wish to push further. Paul Strathern earned a degree in philosophy at Trinity College, Dublin, and has lectured in philosophy and mathematics. A Somerset Maugham prize winner, he has written books on history, philosophy, and travel as well as five novels. His articles have appeared in numerous publications, including the Observer (London) and the Irish Times. He lives and writes in London. Earphones Awards recipient Robert Whitfield was born in England and worked for the BBC for ten years as a radio news announcer and also worked as a narrator for the Royal National Institute for the Blind in London. In addition to narrating for Blackstone Audiobooks, he involves himself in numerous stage-acting projects in the United States and Europe.
