Garcia Marquez: Writer of Colombia

Minta, Stephen

Icon (Harpe)

Examines how Gabriel Garcia Marquez uses the social and political history of Colombia as the background for his fiction

Garcia Marquez: Writer of Colombia (Icon Studies)

Biographies & Memoirs

Icon (Harper & Row)

Petrarch and Petrarchism: the English and French Traditions

Barnes&Noble

Gabriel García Márquez: Writer of Colombia

Literature & Fiction

JONATHAN CAPE.

Love poetry in sixteenth-century France: A study in themes and traditions

Manchester University Press

Petrarch and Petrarchism: The English and French traditions (Literature in context)

Religion & Spirituality

Aguirre: The Re-Creation of a Sixteenth-Century Journey Across South America

A recreation of the exploits of Lope de Aguirre, who in 1560 led a force across Peru in search of El Dorado, captures the explorer's insanity and near-heroic intensity. 12,500 first printing. BOMC, QPB, &amp; History Bk Club.

History

Americas

Henry Holt Co.

In April 1824, at the age of thirty-six, George Gordon, sixth Lord Byron, died in a wretched Greek town while fighting for Greece in its struggle for independence. What was it that took this man - brilliant poet, as even his fiercest detractors admitted, rakehell, and gadabout - to so commit his life and his soul to a struggle so far from his native shores? For many of Byron's biographers, Greece represents a mere passage, episodes worthy of mention but empty of meaning. For Stephen Minta, himself a lover of the complexities of this country, Greece - emotionally, physically, creatively - features hugely in any attempt to understand Byron. "If I am a poet," Byron wrote, "the air of Greece has made me one." Perhaps unique among his generation, Byron loved Greece the way he found it - a land of sensations, of sun and sea and light, but also a place of irritations, of frustration, duplicity, and cruelty. If his fellow countrymen saw in Greece only antiquities, monuments reinforcing a classical education, Byron saw life in all its aspects: grief and despair as well as delight and sensuality. The people of Greece, in all their variety, drew him in, and eventually he made their cause his own. What began as a tourist's expedition grew into a love affair compelling enough to enlist his fortune - and his life.

On a Voiceless Shore: Byron in Greece

Arts & Literature

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