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The document narrates the life of Gabriel García Márquez, affectionately known as 'Gabo', highlighting his childhood in Aracataca, Colombia, where his experiences inspired his love for magical realism. It details his journey from a curious child to a renowned writer, culminating in the publication of 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' in 1967, which transformed Latin American literature. Gabo's legacy endures through his literary works, earning him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982 and continuing to inspire readers worldwide.

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Topics covered

  • Aracataca,
  • literary style,
  • Macondo,
  • Nobel Prize,
  • life journey,
  • character development,
  • realism vs fantasy,
  • reader engagement,
  • Latin American literature,
  • influence
14 views4 pages

Cronica

The document narrates the life of Gabriel García Márquez, affectionately known as 'Gabo', highlighting his childhood in Aracataca, Colombia, where his experiences inspired his love for magical realism. It details his journey from a curious child to a renowned writer, culminating in the publication of 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' in 1967, which transformed Latin American literature. Gabo's legacy endures through his literary works, earning him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982 and continuing to inspire readers worldwide.

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elirocas946
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
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Topics covered

  • Aracataca,
  • literary style,
  • Macondo,
  • Nobel Prize,
  • life journey,
  • character development,
  • realism vs fantasy,
  • reader engagement,
  • Latin American literature,
  • influence

Chronicle

Centro de Diseño e Innovación Tecnológica Industrial

SENA Regional Risaralda

Análisis y Desarrollo de Software

Ficha: 2721451

Eliana Rosero Castañeda

2023
Magical realism in a Gabo’s magical life

Once upon a time, in a Colombia magical town called Aracataca, lived a special boy that without

knowing changed the world. Gabriel García Marquéz was his name, but his friend called him

“Gabo”. Gabo had a huge imagination and he enjoyed reading fairytale stories and fantastic books,

which made him have a particular vision of the world.

While he was child, between 1927 to 1935, he used to explore his town, where the yellow

butterflies danced in the air and the nature song wonderful and mysterious rhythms, but he always

was a good listening. He used to spend time listening to stories from his grandfather too, who was a

veteran of the War of a Thousand Days. Those butterflies’ memories, that magical rhythms, those

stories, and those moments with his grandfather inspired in Gabo a big love for the “magical

realism”.

So, while he was growing up, Gabo began to take interest in words, stories, and books, until one

day he became a writer himself. He studied law and worked as a journalist, in the late 1950s and

early’ 60s. However, he wanted to write his own stories about his particular and special vision of the

world’s reality. He wanted to write about the magical simple life he remembered from his childhood,

one world where the everyday is mixed with the supernatural, and magical.

His job and his trips gave him a several pieces of reality, contexts where he could find a big world

eager to be told. That is how one day, in 1967, he launched its biggest spell, one novel that changed

my life and the lives of thousands of people: “One Hundred Years of Solitude”, in which Gabo tells

the story of Macondo, an isolated town whose history is like the history of Latin America on a

reduced scale.
In this novel, he created a fascinating story with unforgettable characters, magical moments, and a

lot of reality. This reality that he knew very well because it was his reality and that of all Latin

America. After Gabo’s spell the Latin-American literature was never the same again.

In time, Gabriel García Márquez became a master of the pen, gaining worldwide recognition and

receiving the most magical award of all: the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. But even with fame,

he never lost his humility or his capacity for wonder at the beauty of the world around him.

In his final days, as the sun set over the horizon, Gabriel bid farewell to the physical world, but his

legacy would live on as an immortal incantation. His words would continue to dance on the pages of

his books, taking generations of readers on a journey through the magical paths of the imagination.
References
Gonzales, R. (2023). Gabriel García Márquez. Retrieved from Britannica:

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Hirst, K. (2020). Gabriel García Márquez: Writer of Magical Realism. Retrieved from

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