Garcia Marquez in 90 Minutes [unabridged] Unabridged edition

Latin American literature was never primitive; yet, from its beginnings, it was suffused with a fresh, often childish lyricism. García Márquez 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 the world over with its endlessly imaginative vitality. In García Márquez in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern offers a concise, expert account of García Márquez?s life and ideas and explains their influence on literature and on man?s struggle to understand his place in the world.