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Commitment to collecting

December 9, 2015 - Harry Ransom Center

Going back to the origins of research libraries, there is a long history of scholars building collections to suit personal interests, constructing around themselves an athenaeum of books that supported their individual research goals.

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Filed Under: Research + Teaching Tagged With: acquisition, Acquisitions, archive, archives, B. S. Johnson, collecting, collection strengths, collections, David Mamet, Doris Lessing, Elizabeth Hardwick, humanities, Mark Collins, Norman Mailer, Penelope Lively, Research

Dime con quién andas y te diré quién eres: Influencias literarias en la obra de Gabriel García Márquez

October 22, 2015 - Megan Barnard

The cover of the carbon typescript of El coronel no tiene quien le escriba [No One Writes to the Colonel], 1957.
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Alguna vez  Gabriel García Márquez comentó que creía que la principal razón por la cual los escritores leen las novelas de otros, era para aprender cómo las escribieron.  Para el laureado con este Premio Nobel los libros tenían una importancia tremenda, y con frecuencia escribía o hablaba de los autores que más habían influido en él. [Read more…] about Dime con quién andas y te diré quién eres: Influencias literarias en la obra de Gabriel García Márquez

Filed Under: Authors Tagged With: acquisition, Acquisitions, archives, collecting, Ernest Hemingway, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gabriel Garcia Marquez archive, Manuscripts, William Faulkner, writers

The company we keep: Gabriel García Márquez’s literary influences

October 22, 2015 - Megan Barnard

A bronze bust of Gabriel García Márquez by artist Kate Murray. Photo by Pete Smith.
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Gabriel García Márquez once said that he believed the main reason writers read the novels of others is to learn for themselves how the books had been written. Books were tremendously important to this Nobel laureate, and he wrote and spoke frequently about the writers who most influenced his own work. [Read more…] about The company we keep: Gabriel García Márquez’s literary influences

Filed Under: Authors Tagged With: acquisition, Acquisitions, Books, collecting, Ernest Hemingway, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gabriel Garcia Marquez archive, Manuscripts, William Faulkner, writers

Coleccionismo comprometido

October 21, 2015 - Harry Ransom Center

Undated photograph of Mailer with wife Beatrice Silverman. Unknown photographer.

Cuando se busca en tiempo atrás los orígenes de las bibliotecas de investigación, damos con una larga historia de académicos dedicados a recabar colecciones de acuerdo a su interés personal, construyendo en torno suyo ateneos de libros que documentaran sus muy particulares metas de investigación. Y muchas veces, cuando dicho académico proseguía su carrera –en otro trabajo o en otro contexto intelectual- la colección emprendida se marchitaba, sin la mente directriz inicial que siguiera contando su historia. [Read more…] about Coleccionismo comprometido

Filed Under: Authors Tagged With: acquisition, Acquisitions, B. S. Johnson, collecting, collection strengths, David Mamet, Doris Lessing, Elizabeth Hardwick, Norman Mailer, Penelope Lively, Research

Realzando los documentos de Gabriel García Márquez

October 21, 2015 - Megan Barnard

A bronze bust of Gabriel García Márquez alongside the busts of other writers in the entry alcove at the Ransom Center. Photo by Pete Smith.

Cuando el Harry Ransom Center recibe archivos de un autor tan famoso como Gabriel García Márquez, se suscita cierta emoción en el personal, el cual se enorgullece de estar capacitado para preservar y permitir el acceso a materiales que son únicos en el mundo y que permiten nuevas e insospechadas perspectivas tanto a estudiantes como académicos interesados en  la vida y obra del autor. [Read more…] about Realzando los documentos de Gabriel García Márquez

Filed Under: Authors, Research + Teaching Tagged With: acquisition, Acquisitions, archival practice, collecting, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gabriel Garcia Marquez archive

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