Los retratos de Gabriel García Márquez

Description:

"For years, after having waged numerous political and cultural battles, Gabriel García Márquez lived as a colonel in his "laboratory" as Colonel Aureliano Buendía. No public appearance, no interview, no recent photograph. But on December 8, 2011, in Havana, the painter Franco Azzinari inaugurated an exhibition entirely dedicated to the Nobel Prize for literature. Nuccio Ordine establishes a symbolic relationship between the paradoxical status of the portrait and the poetics of One Hundred Years of Solitude: the relationship between identity and difference, as established in painting between the model and its representation, seems to be reflected in the repetition of the same and in the diversity that characterize the characters of the Buendía family. In either case, both in portraits and in the novel, repetition always means something different. The Cuban exhibition became an occasion to reread some magnificent pages of a masterpiece that has led many generations to reflect on the themes of loneliness and time, love and eros, revolution and repression. What the fantastic Macondo saga tells us, with the means of literature, is precisely what historians have not had the courage to tell." -- Back cover.

subjects: Criticism and interpretation,  Portraits,  Cien años de soledad (García Márquez, Gabriel)

People: Gabriel García Márquez (1927-2014)