Analysis on Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Analysis on Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Analysis on Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Gabriel Garcia Marquez is one the world’s renowned writers having received a Nobel Prize in literature in 1982. The Colombian writer who died in 2014 saw his fame grow with the publication of the One Hundred Years of Solitude in 1967 and this marked a journey that acclaimed him worldly recognition and particularly of the Spanish language. This essay focuses on an analysis of the authors works to identify the aspects that shaped his life. His style of writing was magical realism inspired by the vicious dictators of the history of lasting America, romantic revolutionaries and many years pigeon-holed by illness, poverty and hunger CITATION Jon14 \l 1033 (Kandell 2014). From his own work and his biographies, it is evident that Marquez’s life was shaped by his political perspective and ethnic origin.
Pelayo on a Biography of the author quotes that his life was greatly shaped by his early childhood which he spent with his grandparents to the age of seven. His creativity was sparked by his interactions with his seniors, a life that was marked with solitude, isolation, longing, love and joy which preceded onto his thirties CITATION Jon14 \l 1033 (Kandell 2014). These themes are very well present in his writings, solitude inspired the writings of his bestseller, One Hundred Years of Solitude, a story of the family of Buendía that lived in isolation from the rest of the world in a town called Macondo. Solitude can also be read from the abandonment of his parents, the death of his grandfather and being taken to boarding school twice in his teenage years CITATION Rub19 \l 1033 (Pelayo 2009). He heavily borrows from his own life and that of those around him in his work, the town Macondo resembles his home town Aracataca in Colombia.
The Buendía lifestyle of isolation, poverty, affluence and generations of peace and war are believed by many to depict the social and political status of Latin American countries during the life of the author CITATION Jon14 \l 1033 (Kandell 2014). In the article by Correal, the correlation of the book to his home country is met by many who testified it to be their connection to Columbia. Colombian writers were inspired by his work and a bookshop in New York was opened under the name Macondo, the works of the author were their link to home, Latin America CITATION Jon14 \l 1033 (Kandell 2014). His journey to Colombia in 1966 inspired the setting of the novel One Hundred Years of Solitude and Aracataca birthed Macondo CITATION Ann14 \l 1033 (Correal 2014). From his own life, the man Buendía in the story was inspired by the life of the author’s grandfather, who was of great influence to him CITATION Jon14 \l 1033 (Kandell 2014).
Marquez’s grandfather, Nicolas Marquez Mejia was a jeweler, a retired colonel who fought in the Thousand Days War between 1899 and 1902. He married his cousin, had many children and had killed his friend in a duel. These details resonate with the life of the founder of the town Macondo, Arcadio Buendía, in the story, he fought in the Thousand Days war as well leading him to become a colonel. The L...