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Authors Gabriel García Márquez

Politically committed artists like Gabriel García Márquez give honest voice to their political passion at no great cost to the quality control of their art. But do they really change the world? I doubt it…

Tweet this quote Read the full piece at The Paris Review John Barth The Paris Review 1985

García Márquez has, in the past, taken sides in his fictions only where affairs of state were concerned: there are no good banana company bosses in his stories, and the idea of the masses, ‘the people’, is occasionally […] romanticised.

Tweet this quote Read the full piece at London Review of Books Salman Rushdie London Review of Books 1982

One Hundred Years of Solitude

In One Hundred Years of Solitude I used the insomnia plague as something of a literary trick, since it’s the opposite of the sleeping plague. Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry.

Read the full piece at The Paris Review Gabriel García Márquez The Paris Review 1981
Autumn of the Patriarch

The Autumn of the Patriarch is a completely historical book. To find probabilities out of real facts is the work of the journalist and the novelist, and it is also the work of the prophet.

Read the full piece at The Paris Review Gabriel García Márquez The Paris Review 1981