315 Gabriel García Márquez and the Incredible and Sad (and Marvelous) World

The History of Literature

Jacke Wilson

History, Books, Arts

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2021

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Following our last episode with Patricia Engel, Jacke takes a closer look at Gabriel García Márquez, including his literary influences, his search for truth in nostalgia and history, and his use of invention and the marvelous to approach a kind of heightened sense of what's possible, what's actual, and what's essential. Help support the show at patreon.com/literature or historyofliterature.com/shop. (We appreciate it!) Find out more at historyofliterature.com, jackewilson.com, or by following Jacke and Mike on Twitter at @thejackewilson and @literatureSC. Or send an email to [email protected]. New!!! Looking for an easy to way to buy Jacke a coffee? Now you can at paypal.me/jackewilson. Your generosity is much appreciated! The History of Literature Podcast is a member of Lit Hub Radio and the Podglomerate Network. Learn more at www.thepodglomerate.com/historyofliterature. *** This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The Podglomerate treats data, please see our Privacy Policy. Since you're listening to The History of Literature, we'd like to suggest you also try other Podglomerate shows surrounding literature, history, and storytelling like Storybound, Micheaux Mission, and The History of Standup. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The History of Literature podcast is a member of the Podglomerate Network and LitHub Radio.
0:07.0	Hello.
0:10.7	When he was 16, author Gabrielle Garcia Marquez witnessed an encounter between an 11-year-old
0:16.3	girl and her grandmother.
0:18.5	Years later, after he was a published novelist, but before he was the world-renowned author,
0:23.5	he subsequently came to be.
0:25.5	He returned to that encounter as it inspired a short passage in his masterpiece, 100 Years
0:32.0	of Solitude.
0:33.8	And then, a few years later, he wrote the story into a longer version, a story of novella
0:40.5	length that he gave the title, the incredible and sad tale of innocent Arindira and her
0:46.2	heartless grandmother.
0:48.4	He was no longer 16, now he was 45, and he had developed the tools that would help him
0:53.9	turn an anecdote, an image, a fleeting chance encounter into fiction.
1:00.1	We can marvel at the way a brief moment can become paragraphs in a masterpiece and pages
1:06.2	written by a genius.
1:07.8	We can scrutinize that moment for every detail, as if a few seconds under a microscope
1:14.0	will tell us what we need to know about literature and the life of the man who saw the event
1:20.4	and turned it into literature.
1:22.8	But there's another way to look at the translation of life into literature or the inspiration
1:27.1	of life that leads to literature, and that's to look at our interpreter, the mind of our
1:32.0	writer, the crucible that the raw ingredients of life went into.
1:37.2	There was imagination in there, and a lifetime of encounters with books and authors and
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