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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100 Years of Solitude by Garcia Marces
imagination is deeply historical and socialh so then historical conditions and social conditions make it possible for us to imagine certain things and not others. So what i do in the first part of the book is to try to understand what was going on in garcia, marques life, in columbia and in latin america at large. To really understand what made it possible for him to imagine a novel such as 100 years of solitude. And then, of course, another thing that i do is to explain how he started to acquire the professional skills that were necessary for him to write fiction in in the first place. Also his working sinema. Not many people know that garcia mar
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