Gabriel García Márquez

"Big Mama's Funeral" is a long short story by Gabriel García Márquez that satirizes Latin American life and culture. It displays the exaggeration associated with magic realism. Most of the place names mentioned come from Colombia, and "Big Mama" herself is an exaggeration of the 'cacique', a familiar figure in Latin …

Cent anys de solitud és una destacada novel·la de l'escriptor colombià Gabriel García Márquez. És considerada una obra mestra de la literatura llatinoamericana i universal. La primera edició de la novel·la fou publicada a Buenos Aires l'any 1967 per l'Editorial Sudamericana amb una tirada inicial de 8.000 exemplars. …

Miguel Littin, a well-known film director permanently exiled from Pinochet's Chile, returns to his native country disguised as a Uruguayan public-relations agent. His purpose is to film Chile today, to record the "abominable silences" of his beloved country under siege.