Saturday October 22. 3pm to 5pm.
Tributo a Gabriel García Márquez-Tarde de Realismo Mágico en la Librería Donceles.
Spanish Professor Michel Trahyn will be leading a conversation about the life and work of Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and Journalist Gabriel García Márquez. Considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century and one of the best in the Spanish language, he was awarded the 1972 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature.
García Márquez started as a journalist, and wrote many acclaimed non-fiction works and short stories, but is best known for his novels, such as One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975), and Love in the Time of Cholera (1985). His works has achieved significant critical acclaim and widespread commercial success, most notably for popularizing a literary style labeled as magic realism, which uses magical elements and events in otherwise ordinary and realistic situations. Some of his works are set in a fictional village called Macondo (the town mainly inspired by his birthplace Aracataca), and most of them explore the theme of solitude.
This event is a collaboration between SADCO(Sociedad Amigos de Colombia) and Big Car Collaborative.