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How Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude became a classic

May 30, 2020 - Alvaro Santana-Acuna

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Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel García Márquez’s masterpiece, One Hundred Years of Solitude, was published on May 30, 1967. A new book by Ransom Center guest curator and Whitman College assistant professor Álvaro Santana-Acuña–Ascent to Glory: How One Hundred Years of Solitude Was Written and Became a Global Classic (Columbia University Press, August 2020), explores how the novel achieved success and what it reveals about how a work of literature becomes a classic.

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Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Exhibitions + Events, Featured1 Tagged With: archive, Gabo, Gabriel, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, literature

“Una historia de Cien años de soledad a través de sus documentos”

May 23, 2017 - Alvaro Santana-Acuna

“El problema es mío”, confesó García Márquez a un amigo por carta en julio de 1966, “que después de tantos años de trabajar como un animal, me siento agobiado de cansancio, sin perspectivas ciertas, salvo en el único terreno que me gusta y no me da de comer: la novela”. [Read more…] about “Una historia de Cien años de soledad a través de sus documentos”

Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Digital Collections, Research + Teaching Tagged With: Álvaro Santana-Acuña, archivo de Gabriel García Márquez, Cien años de soledad, Gabo, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Spanish

Gabriel García Márquez’s life in 100 pictures

February 27, 2017 - Ryan Blake

The author and his wife selecting the artwork for the cover of Crónica de una muerte anunciada; photographer and date unknown.

In August 2016, I joined the Ransom Center as a graduate student assistant from The University of Texas at Austin’s School of Information to digitize the Gabriel García Márquez papers. [Read more…] about Gabriel García Márquez’s life in 100 pictures

Filed Under: Authors, Cataloging, Digital Collections, Research + Teaching Tagged With: archive, author, Bill Clinton, Books, Carlos Slim, CLIR, CLIR Garcia Marquez, Colombia, Council on Library and Information Resources, digital archive, digitization, family photographs, Fidel Castro, Gabo, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gabriel García Márquez: A Life, GRA, grant, literature, Manuscripts, photo album, photographs, Ryan Blake, scrapbooks, Shakira, Sharing Gabo with the World

Gabriel García Márquez’s republic of letters

December 1, 2016 - Amy Brown

Rapi Diego's "El sapo hechizado" (1997). Photos by Pete Smith.

I have always loved to catalog presentation copies of books—those given as a gift from one person to another, usually with a signature or inscription. They represent a tiny piece of the people involved, and allow me to feel a connection to some of my favorite authors. Gabriel García Márquez’s library was no exception. [Read more…] about Gabriel García Márquez’s republic of letters

Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Cataloging Tagged With: Alvaro Mutis, Amy Brown, Authors, Carlos Fuentes, catalog, El Sapo Hechizado, Eliseo Diego, Evidence, Fidel Castro, Gabo, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gabriel García Márquez presentation library, La Historia Me Absolverá, Latin America, literature, Orhan Pamuk, presentation book, presentation copy, presentation library, Richard Avedon, The Museum of Innocence

Gabriel García Márquez y su república de las letras

December 1, 2016 - Amy Brown

Fidel Castro's "La historia me absolvera" (1973). Photos by Pete Smith.

Una de las actividades que más disfruto es catalogar los llamados ‘libros de presentación’, los cuales son regalados por los autores, usualmente con una dedicatoria y/o un autógrafo. [Read more…] about Gabriel García Márquez y su república de las letras

Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Cataloging Tagged With: Alvaro Mutis, Amy Brown, autores, biblioteca de presentación, biblioteca de presentación Gabriel García Márquez, Carlos Fuentes, catalogar, copia de presentación, El Museo de la Inocencia, El Sapo Hechizado, Eliseo Diego, Evidence, Fidel Castro, Gabo, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, La Historia Me Absolverá, Latinoamérica, libro de presentación, literatura, Orhan Pamuk, Richard Avedon, Spanish

Award supports digitization of more than 24,000 images from the Gabriel García Márquez archive

January 4, 2016 - Jennifer Tisdale

An album labeled "Un viaje de Xochimilco," opened to photographs of Gabriel García Márquez with author Carlos Fuentes and others, undated. Photographs by Fabrizio Leon.

The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) has granted the Harry Ransom Center a 2015 Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives award to digitize more than 24,000 pages from the Gabriel García Márquez archive. [Read more…] about Award supports digitization of more than 24,000 images from the Gabriel García Márquez archive

Filed Under: Digital Collections Tagged With: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, CLIR, CLIR Garcia Marquez, Council on Library and Information Resources, Gabo, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gabriel Garcia Marquez archive, Mirador Image Viewer

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