R.I.P. Gabriel Garcia Marquez

[Calidore]

http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/books/la-et-jc-gabriel-garcia-marquez-nobel-prize-winning-author-dies-20140405,0,5442957.story

[MorpheusSandman]

Another literary giant is gone. Very sad news. :(

[stlukesguild]

Yes... truly a major loss.

[Vota]

But, he lives on...

[prendrelemick]

Yes, he was a true great. I will always remember reading Death foretold for the first time, and feeling I was experiencing the work of a true craftsman

[aliengirl]

His novel One Hundred Years of Solitude was my first introduction to magic realism. I wonder if I'd like this genre so much if I had started with some other novel. Marquez once wrote that there is always something left to love. I'm glad that his beautiful words will always be there to read and love. R.I.P. Gabo.

[aliengirl]

If anyone is interested in his Nobel Lecture, here it is - The Solitude of Latin America (http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1982/marquez-lecture.html?utm_source=google%2B&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=%20google%2B_page)

[mortalterror]

He was probably the world's greatest living writer for a number of years. The stuff I've read of his was right up there with Hemingway and Faulkner's.

[Helga]

He is one of my favourite, but he had been sick for some time so he was probably waiting for his rest. Great author.

[Hawkman]

Curiously I didn't know he'd popped his clogs today, until now, but I just bought 2 of his books, along with one by Achebe.

[elliotcaine]

To love a man as much as I did without ever knowing him is the power truly great authors have over their readers.

I remember reading "100 years of solitude" and thinking, this man is incredible.

It is authors like this that are able to capture the singular human narrative so well that people from America to Vietnam can read his work and say "god ****ing damn".

RIP - To my idol and my hero.

Senor Marquez, I drink for you tonight.

[Whosis]

Wow, that is major crazy. I haven't finished his famous book yet either, One Hundred Years of Solitude. This is the saddest news since losing Vonnegut (I have a book of his I haven't finished either). One after the other. It feels like most of the famous recent living authors are only on their way out. What a shame. I had wondered why Garcia's book wasn't in with the top 100 books of the last century, but I suppose it's because it's a translation.

[qimissung]

He came, he lived, he left a beautiful story.

[desiresjab]

I can't remeber the exact quote, so I will have to paraphrase it.


People always figure out everything they ever needed to know--just too late. G.G. Marquez.

It is very difficult to rate authors objectively using a whole palette of criteria, but I figure he is up there just off the power of A Hundred Years Of Solitude. and Love In The Time Of Cholera, the only two I have read.

[hannah_arendt]

He was one of the most important writers in my life. Thanks to him I decided to learn Spanish and I started writing. i have read "100 years of solitude" for 7 times so far. So it was very sad news.