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Nobel Literature laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez expired today at age 87.
GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUES, THE RENOWNED
LATIN AMERICAN WRITER, THE GREAT CREATOR OF 'MAGICAL REALISM' IN 20TH CENTRURY
LITERATURE AND A CLOSE FRIEND OF FIDEL CASTRO, EXPIRED
TODAY.
Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez crafted
intoxicating fiction from the fatalism, fantasy, cruelty and heroics of the
world that set his mind churning as a child growing up on Colombia’s Caribbean
coast. One of the most revered and influential writers of his generation, he
brought Latin America’s charm and maddening contradictions to life in the minds
of millions and became the best-known practitioner of “magical realism,” a
blending of fantastic elements into portrayals of daily life that made the
extraordinary seem almost routine. In his works, clouds of yellow butterflies
precede a forbidden lover’s arrival. A heroic liberator of nations dies alone,
destitute and far from home. A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings, as
one of his short stories is called, is spotted in a muddy courtyard.
Garcia Marquez’s own epic story ended on Thursday, at age
87, with his death at his home in southern Mexico City, according to two people
close to the family who spoke on condition of anonymity out of respect for the
family’s privacy.
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