Gabriel García Márquez

Sto roků samoty je nejznámější román kolumbijského spisovatele Gabriela Garcíi Márqueze, držitele Nobelovy ceny za literaturu. Vypráví o několika generacích rozvětvené rodiny Buendíů a osudech jihoamerické vesničky Macondo v průběhu století. V rodině Buendíů se neustále vyskytují podobné povahové rysy, především sklon …

Láska za časů cholery patří k nejvýznamnějším dílům Gabriela Garcíi Márqueze. Knihu do češtiny přeložila Blanka Stárková, byla publikována v roce 1985 a nedávno se dočkala i svého filmového zpracování. Kniha se zabývá 50 let trvajícím milostným trojúhelníkem mezi postavami Fermina Daza, Florentino Ariza a Doctor …

Kronika ohlášené smrti je osmdesáti sedmi stránková novela Gabriela Josého García Márqueze, vydaná v roce 1981 a zfilmována v roce 1987. V knize jde o naplnění zvykového práva v jednom americkém městečku první poloviny 20. století. Ohlášenou smrtí je myšlena vražda Santiaga Nasara, bohatého muže, jenž je zavražděn …

Memories of My Melancholy Whores is a novella by Gabriel García Márquez. The book was originally published in Spanish in 2004, with an English translation by Edith Grossman published in October 2005.

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 …

No One Writes to the Colonel is a novella written by the Colombian novelist and Nobel Prize in Literature winner Gabriel García Márquez. It also gives its name to a short story collection. García Márquez considered it his best book, saying that he had to write One Hundred Years of Solitude so the people would read No …

At the age of forty-six General Simon Bolivar, who drove the Spanish from his lands and became the Liberator of South America, takes himself into exile. He makes a final journey down the Magdalene River, revisiting the cities along its shores, reliving the triumphs, passions and betrayals of his youth. Consumed by the …

Living to Tell the Tale is the first volume of the autobiography of Gabriel García Márquez. The book was originally published in Spanish in 2002, with an English translation by Edith Grossman published in 2003. Living to Tell the Tale tells the story of García Márquez' life from 1927 through 1950, ending with his …

In Barcelona, an aging Brazilian prostitute trains her dog to weep at the grave she has chosen for herself. In Vienna, a woman parlays her gift for seeing the future into a fortunetelling position with a wealthy family. In Geneva, an ambulance driver and his wife take in the lonely, apparently dying ex-President of a …

The Autumn of the Patriarch is a novel written by Gabriel García Márquez in 1975. A "poem on the solitude of power" according to the author, the novel is a flowing tract on the life of an eternal dictator. The book is divided into six sections, each retelling the same story of the infinite power held by the …