Gabriel Garcia Marquez: The Last Interview
and Other Conversations
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Publisher Description
An intimate and lively collection of interviews with a giant of twentieth century literature—the only collection of interviews with Marquez available
Hailed by the New York Times as a "conjurer of literary magic," Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez is known to millions of readers worldwide as the author of One Hundred Years of Solitude. Beloved by readers of nearly all ages, he is surely the most popular literary novelist in translation—and he remains so today, a decade after the publication of his final novel.
In addition to the first-ever English translation of Marquez’s last interview, this unprecedented volume includes his first interview, conducted while he was in the throes of writing One Hundred Years of Solitude, which reveals the young writer years before the extraordinary onslaught of success that would make him a household name around the world. Also featured is a series of unusually wide-ranging conversations with Marquez's friend Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza—surely the only interview with Marquez that includes the writer's insights into both the meaning of true love and the validity of superstitions. Gabriel Garcia Marquez: The Last Interview also contains two interviews with Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter David Streitfeld.
A wide-ranging and revealing book, Gabriel Garcia Marquez: The Last Interview is an essential book for lifelong fans of Marquez—and readers who are just getting encountering the master's work for the first time.
Customer Reviews
8/10 would read agin!
The novel “Gabriel Garcia Marquez: The Last Interview” is a very interesting read. In all honesty this book caught me off guard in the very beginning when it starts off by the author actually talking to Gabriel Garcia, in my head I was thinking that this story would be a narrator talking about his life not a conversation between the two men. This twist was in my opinion an excellent format to create this novel; it was actually really cool and made it more entertaining. The novel consisted most of the time of just the author and Gabriel Garcia but in one part his friend was also their and said some things and added onto some stories. Though the interviews were pretty short, the reader gets to know Gabriel Garcia on a more personal level and learn what he was thinking when it came to creating some of his books. Some interesting facts that I learned while reading the novel was the fact that, the main book that got him famous (100 years of solitude) was not his best book in his opinion. Also surprisingly it didn’t take 100 years to make, bet it felt like it though… (100 years of solitude is pretty good in my opinion but so freaking long and can get boring at times.)
The novel is split up in parts instead of chapters, each of these parts consist of interviews discussing different topics. One of the topics that really stood out to me would have to be his effects on politics. He just simply wanted happiness for all; he believed that happiness is the answer for everything. I just thought that it was awesome that this man (Gabriel Garcia) could make a big change like that to the world and leave such an impact. Another part/ section of the novel are what he thought about women and how he implemented them in his writing. Now at first I was like “oh ok, I don’t know why a whole part of this book is about the opposite sex but alright”. After reading it though, I understood why it had a whole section. All of his life he had women him, supporting him and made him the man who he was. The women in his novel are very noble or wise (at least most of them are) due to the fact that he respects them to the highest degree.
Overall this novel was a good read, took me around 4 hours total to read over a period of a week. As a 15 year old going on 16 in a week, I would give it a 8/10.
-Rayce Ventura