Gabriel García Márquez, página 4 de 27

Quant fa 25 anys de la concessió del Premi Nobel de Literatura i 80 anys de la primera edició de Cien años de soledad, Belacqva edita l’obra en català.

'The first thing Señora Prudencia Linero noticed when she reached the port of Naples was that it had the same smell as the port of Riohacha…' Their distant, nostalgic memories of home, their sense of anonymity in a foreign land, the terrifying pang of vulnerability they feel as they step over the threshold into an alien world… These pilgrims - the ageing prostitute preparing for death by teaching her dog to weep at her grave, the panicked husband scared for the life of his injured wife, the old man who allows his mind to wander on a long-haul flight from Paris - experience with all Márquez's humour, warmth and colour, what it is to be a Latin American adrift in Europe or, indeed, any outsider living far from home.

'On the day they were going to kill him, Santiago Nasar got up at five-thirty in the morning to wait for the boat the bishop was coming on' When newly-wed Angela Vicario and Bayardo San Roman are left to their wedding night, Bayardo discovers that his new wife is no virgin. Disgusted, he returns Angela to her family home that very night, where her humiliated mother beats her savagely and her two brothers demand to know her violator, whom she names as Santiago Nasar. As he wakes to thoughts of the previous night's revelry, Santiago is unaware of the slurs that have been cast against him. But with Angela's brothers set on avenging their family honour, soon the whole town knows who they plan to kill, where, when and why.

In 1990, fearing extradition to the United States, Pablo Escobar – head of the Medellín drug cartel – kidnapped ten notable Colombians to use as bargaining chips. With the eye of a poet, García Márqu

Whilst her grotesque and demanding grandmother retires to bed, Eréndira still has floors to wash, sheets to iron, and a peacock to feed. The never-ending chores leave the young girl so exhausted that she collapses into bed with the candle still glowing on a nearby table - and is fast asleep when it topples over… Eight hundred and seventy-two thousand, three hundred and fifteen pesos, her grandmother calculates, is the amount that Eréndira must repay her for the loss of the house. As she is dragged by her grandmother from town to town and hawked to soldiers, smugglers and traders, Eréndira feels herself dying. Can the love of a virgin save the young whore from her hell?

‘César Montero was dreaming about elephants. He’d seen them at the movies on Sunday...’ Only moments later, César is led away by police as they clear the crowds away from the man he has just killed.

As the citizens of an unnamed Caribbean nation creep through the dusty corridors of the presidential palace in search of their tyrannical leader, they cannot comprehend that the frail and withered man laying dead on the floor can be the self-styled General of the Universe. Their egocentric, maniacally violent leader, known for serving up traitors to dinner guests and drowning young children at sea, can surely not die the humiliating death of a mere mortal? Tracing the demands of a man whose egocentric excesses mask the loneliness of isolation and whose lies have become so ingrained that they are indistinguishable from truth, Marquez has created a fantastical portrait of despotism that rings with an air of reality.

On her twelfth birthday, Sierva Maria - the only child of a decaying noble family in an eighteenth-century South American seaport - is bitten by a rabid dog. Believed to be possessed, she is brought to a convent for observation. And into her cell stumbles Father Cayetano Delaura, who has already dreamed about a girl with hair trailing after her like a bridal train. As he tends to her with holy water and sacramental oils, Delaura feels something shocking begin to occur. He has fallen in love - and it is not long until Sierva Maria joins him in his fevered misery. Unsettling and indelible, Of Love and Other Demons is an evocative, majestic tale of the most universal experiences known to woman and man.

'Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.' Pipes and kettledrums herald the arrival of gypsies on their annual visit to Macondo, the newly founded village where Jose Arcadio Buendia and his strong-willed wife, Ursula, have started their new life. As the mysterious Melquiades excites Aureliano Buendia's father with new inventions and tales of adventure, neither can know the significance of the indecipherable manuscript that the old gypsy passes into their hands. Through plagues of insomnia, civil war, hauntings and vendettas, the many tribulations of the Buendia household push memories of the manuscript aside. Few remember its existence and only one will discover the hidden message that it holds... This new edition of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's most celebrated novel is published to coincide with celebrations to mark the 80th birthday of this Nobel Prize winning author in 2007.

En una bella edición y dentro de su colección Centzontle, el FCE recupera los discursos de Gabriel García Márquez y Carlos Fuentes pronunciados en torno a una conmemoración única: los 80 años del Premio Nobel colombiano y los 40 años de la novela Cien años de soledad. Una celebracion de la cual el lector puede ser testigo privilegiado a traves de este libro. Garcia Marquez recuerda en estas paginas que ni en el mas delirante de sus sueños imagino que su novela llegaria a ser leida por casi 50 millones de lectores, un numero tal de personas que si vivieran en un solo pedazo de tierra seria uno de los 20 paises mas poblados del mundo.Este volumen pone a dialogar, entre si y con sus lectores, a dos autores fundamentales de la narrativa contemporanea. Se presenta, en primer lugar, el texto escrito por Carlos Fuentes con motivo de la edicion conmemorativa de Cien años de soledad que la Real Academia Española y la Asociacion de Academias de la Lengua Española lanzaron para rendir homenaje a Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Se complementa el volumen con las emotivas palabras pronunciadas el 26 de marzo de 2007 por Gabriel Garcia Marquez en el acto que recibio el primer ejemplar de esta edicion de un millon de ejemplares.

Florentino Ariza has never forgotten his first love. He has waited nearly a lifetime in silence since his beloved Fermina married another man. No woman can replace her in his heart. But now her husband is dead. Finally - after fifty-one years, nine months and four days - Florentino has another chance to declare his eternal passion and win her back. Will love that has survived half a century remain unrequited?

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. Fifty years, nine months, and four days after he first declared his love for Fermina, he will do so again.

The year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin. I thought of Rosa Cabarcas, the owner of an illicit house who would inform her good clients when she had a new girl available. I never succumbed to that or to any of her many other lewd temptations, but she did not believe in the purity of my principles. Morality, too, is a question of time, she would say with a malevolent smile, you''ll see. She was a little younger than I, and I hadn''t heard anything about her for so many years that she very well might have died. But after the first ring I recognized the voice on the phone, and with no preambles I fired at her: "Today''s the day." She sighed: Ah, my sad scholar, you disappear for twenty years and come back only to ask for the impossible. She regained mastery of her art at once and offered me half a dozen delectable options, but all of them, to be frank, were used. I said no, insisting the girl had to be a virgin and available that very night. She asked in alarm: What are you trying to prove? Nothing, I replied, wounded to the core, I know very well what I can and cannot do. Unmoved, she said that scholars may know it all, but they don''t know everything: The only Virgos left in the world are people like you who were born in August. Why didn''t you give me more time? Inspiration gives no warnings, I said. But perhaps it can wait, she said, always more knowledgeable than any man, and she asked for just two days to make a thorough investigation of the market. I replied in all seriousness that in an affair such as this, at my age, each hour is like a year. Then it can''t be done, she said without the slightest doubt, but it doesn''t matter, it''s more exciting this way, what the hell, I''ll call you in an hour. I don''t have to say so because people can see it from leagues away: I''m ugly, shy, and anachronistic. But by dint of not wanting to be those things I have pretended to be just the opposite. Until today, when I have resolved to tell of my own free will just what I''m like, if only to ease my conscience. I have begun with my unusual call to Rosa Cabarcas because, seen from the vantage point of today, that was the beginning of a new life at an age when most mortals have already died. I live in a col

A um povoado perdido na América do Sul chegou a hora má dos camponeses, a hora da desgraça. Certo amanhecer, enquanto o Padre Ángel se prepara para celebrar a missa, ouve-se um tiro na aldeia. Um comerciante de gado, informado da infidelidade da mulher por um papel colado na porta da sua casa, acaba de matar o seu presumivel amante. E um dos pasquins anonimos cravados durante a madrugada nas portas das casas, que no so panfletos politicos mas apenas denuncias sobre a vida privada dos cidados, e que nada revelam que no seja do conhecimento de todos ha algum tempo. So os velhos boatos que agora se tornam publicos: traiçes amorosas e politicas, assassinatos, segredos de familia envolvendo filhos bastardos e romances escusos. Todos se sentem atingidos e ameaçados, dos cidados mais eminentes aos mais humildes. Todos parecem ter algo a esconder e a revelar. Qualquer habitante pode ser o autor dos bilhetes ou a proxima vitima. Este romance foi adaptado ao cinema pelo realizador brasileiro Ruy Guerra.