Cheiro de Goiaba: Conversas com Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza

by Gabriel García Márquez, Eliane Zagury (Translator)

A vida do mais importante autor latino-americano

 

Cheiro de goiaba é uma série de conversas de Gabo com Apuleyo Mendoza, amigo de longa data, jornalista e também escritor. Nelas, Gabriel García Márquez passa em revista sua vida, de menino pobre de Aracataca a vencedor do Prêmio Nobel de Literatura. Ele fala de suas origens, como e por que começou a escrever, conta sobre as leituras que exerceram influência em sua formação literária, seu pensamento político, mulheres, superstições, manias, gostos e sua vida como celebridade mundial, quando nada mais resta da vida boêmia dos dias de juventude em que o nascer do sol ainda o surpreendia numa redação de jornal, num bar ou num quarto qualquer. Como escritor de fama internacional, tudo na vida de García Márquez precisava ser pensado de antemã ele podia marcar em janeiro uma entrevista para setembro e, coisa rara num latino-americano, cumprir o compromisso! Tudo isso se encontra em Cheiro de goiaba, um livro admirável para conhecer melhor o autor de clássicos como Cem anos de solidão e O amor nos tempos do cólera.

168 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 28, 2023

About the author

Gabriel José de la Concordia Garcí­a Márquez was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist. Garcí­a Márquez, familiarly known as "Gabo" in his native country, was considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century. In 1982, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

He studied at the University of Bogotá and later worked as a reporter for the Colombian newspaper El Espectador and as a foreign correspondent in Rome, Paris, Barcelona, Caracas, and New York. He wrote many acclaimed non-fiction works and short stories, but is best-known for his novels, such as One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) and Love in the Time of Cholera (1985). His works have achieved significant critical acclaim and widespread commercial success, most notably for popularizing a literary style labeled as magical realism, which uses magical elements and events in order to explain real experiences. Some of his works are set in a fictional village called Macondo, and most of them express the theme of solitude.

Having previously written shorter fiction and screenplays, García Márquez sequestered himself away in his Mexico City home for an extended period of time to complete his novel Cien años de soledad, or One Hundred Years of Solitude, published in 1967. The author drew international acclaim for the work, which ultimately sold tens of millions of copies worldwide. García Márquez is credited with helping introduce an array of readers to magical realism, a genre that combines more conventional storytelling forms with vivid, layers of fantasy.

Another one of his novels, El amor en los tiempos del cólera (1985), or Love in the Time of Cholera, drew a large global audience as well. The work was partially based on his parents' courtship and was adapted into a 2007 film starring Javier Bardem. García Márquez wrote seven novels during his life, with additional titles that include El general en su laberinto (1989), or The General in His Labyrinth, and Del amor y otros demonios (1994), or Of Love and Other Demons.

(Arabic: جابرييل جارسيا ماركيز) (Hebrew: גבריאל גארסיה מרקס) (Ukrainian: Ґабріель Ґарсія Маркес) (Belarussian: Габрыель Гарсія Маркес) (Russian: Габриэль Гарсия Маркес)