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Situating Gabriel García Márquez as reader and critic of Colombian literature

May 10, 2017 - Marissa Kessenich

Situating Gabriel García Márquez as reader and critic of Colombian literature

Nicolás Pernett (Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia) discusses his research interests in advance of his visit to the Ransom Center.

Pernett is supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Research Fellowship Endowment.

Tell us about your research, “Colombian Readings of Gabriel García Márquez.”

Gabriel García Márquez is usually studied as a literary producer, but few studies analyze his status as a reader and critic of Colombian literary production. My research seeks to narrow this analysis to find out what the position of García Márquez was vis-à-vis the authors and Colombian readings, specifically.

Quiero estudiar los archivos de Gabriel García Márquez en busca de indicios sobre las lecturas de autores colombianos que este realizó entre la década de 1960 y la primera del siglo XXI.

 

What initially drew you to this topic?

My work in the National Library of Colombia brought to my attention the insufficient information available on the works that influenced our most important writer.

Mucho se ha dicho sobre la influencia de García Márquez en escritores colombianos de la segunda mitad del siglo XX, pero poco sabemos sobre qué tanto estuvo tanto de las novedades literarias de su país de origen y qué opinaba de ellos.

 

Which collections at the Ransom Center are most relevant to your research?

I will use the documents available in the Gabriel García Márquez collection, including correspondence sent to Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza and Guillermo Angulo.

Para esta investigación revisare el archivo personal de Gabriel García Márquez, que su familia dio al Harry Ransom Center en 2014.

 

Are there specific questions you hope your research here will answer?

What historical, sociological, and political sources were used by the author during the writing of some of his most recognized books? What Colombian themes and authors particularly influenced García Márquez while he lived outside of Colombia? In what way? What was his opinion of these authors and their works?

¿Qué autores colombianos leyó García Márquez entre 1961 y 2006? ¿Cuál fue su valoración de estos? ¿Cuales de estos llegaron a influir en su escritura? ¿De qué manera?

 

Why is it important that you visit the Ransom Center to work on-site with original materials?

As this project seeks to identify the readings and topics of interest to García Márquez, I will relate information found in the collection with information referring to the same subject in other sources. This will require continuous review and re-reading of consulted collection materials.

La revisión de los archivos se debe hacer en las instalaciones del Harry Ransom Center pues los indicios sobre las lecturas de García Márquez se pueden encontrar en cualquiera de las muchas partes de su archivo, por lo que se requiere la continua revisión de sus documentos, en lugar de solo una parte de ellos. Además, allí también se encuentran algunos de sus libros personales.

 

Outside your primary research interest, are there other collection items at the Ransom Center that you hope to see?

I would like to see the collections of other Latin American authors from the 1960s archived at the Harry Ransom Center.

También me interesan los archivos de los escritores latinoamericanos pertenecientes al boom de la década de 1960 que reposan en el Harry Ransom Center.

Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Research + Teaching Tagged With: 2017-2018 fellowships, archivo de Gabriel García Márquez, Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia, Colombia, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gabriel Garcia Marquez archive, Nicolás Pernett, Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza

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