Álvaro Santana-Acuña, "Ascent to Glory: How One Hundred Years of Solitude Was Written and Became a Global Classic" (Columbia UP, 2020)
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What Garcia Marcus Learned in the Making of Films
Gartia markes was influenced by anglo american modernism, golden age literature from the sevent seventeenth century spain and contemporary poets like palo neruda. He learned about how to market things to the public in 19 sixties when reading became a habit of the middle classes. The book ends with 100 of solitude, where i write about the actual production of the novel,. I use the term network to show how creativity is not just single individual, but really part of a network. In this case we can really see the influence that all these friends and colleagues had in the imagination, or on the writer's imagination.
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