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Library and Internet Resources on One Hundred Years of Solitude and Its Times

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BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Gabriel Garcia Marquez' One Hundred Years of Solitude

Contemporary Literary Criticism. Detroit: Gale, 1991.

The entry for Garcia Marquez in CLC Volume 68 is devoted to the critical reaction to One Hundred Years of Solitude. It begins with an original essay followed by extended excerpts from initial book reviews, interviews with the author, and scholarly articles on the novel. There are also excerpts from the novel itself and from his Nobel Prize acceptance speech. An annotated bibliography of sources for further reading concludes the entry. Garcia Marquez other works are covered in CLC Volumes 2, 3, 8, 10, 15, 27 47, and 55.

CALL NUMBER: Ref PN 771 C59 v. 68

GarcÌa M·rquez, Gabriel. "The Solitude of Latin America." [ Online ] Nobel lecture Available: http://www.nobel.se/literature/laureates/1982/marquez-lecture.html [8 December 1982; Accessed 11 April 2001].

The text of Garcia Marquez' lecture on the occasion of his receipt of Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982.

Latin American Writers. Carlos A. SolÈ, Editor. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1989.

The article by George R. McMurray in Volume 3 offers an extended critical examination of Garcia Marques' work including several pages that focuses exclusively on One Hundred Years of Solitude. A selected bibliography of first editions, translations, and biographical and critical studies concludes the entry.

CALL NUMBER: Ref PQ 7081 .A1 L37 1989 v.3

Johnston, Ian. "On Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude." [ Online ] Available: http://www.mala.bc.ca/~johnstoi/introser/marquez.htm [ 28 March 1995; Accessed 11 April 2001].

The text of a lecture delivered March 28, 1995, by Ian Johnston, Malaspina University-College, Nanaimo, BC, Canada for Liberal Studies 402.

Murray, Patricia. "Cien aÒos de soledad." In Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature. Verity Smith, Editor. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1997.

The entry for Garcia Marquez includes a critical overview of literary work including essays on individual novels (One Hundred Years of Solitude among them) each with its own bibliography; a brief biographical essay; and a select list of primary and secondary sources.

CALL NUMBER: Ref PQ 7081 .A1 E56 1997

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Masterpieces of Latino Literature. Edited by Frank N. Magill. New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1994.

The entry for One Hundred Years of Solitude briefly identifies the novel's principal characters, summarizes the plot and offers a concise analysis, and places it in its critical context.

CALL NUMBER: Ref PQ 7081 .A1 M29 1994

Gabriel Garcia Marquez in Context

Dictionary of Literary Biography: Volume One Hundred Thirteen – Modern Latin-American Fiction Writers (First Series) . Edited by William Luis. Detroit: Gale, 1992.

This volume of DLB, in the course of providing an extended literary biography of Garcia Marquez, attributes the author's popularity to "restoring the coherence of plot." One Hundred Years of Solitude is examined at some length. Includes bibliographies of the author's works (including English-language translations), interviews, bibliographies, biographies, and scholarly articles.

CALL NUMBER: Ref PS 221 .D510 v. 113

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Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture. Barbara A Tenenbaum, editor in chief. New York: Macmillan, 1996.

A brief article on Garcia Marquez whose style and work "depicts the stark reality of an underdeveloped, strife-torn continent universalized by the humanistic elements of unfettered imagination and aesthetic perception." See also article on:

• Literature: Spanish America

CALL NUMBER: Ref F 1406 .E53 1996

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Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature. Verity Smith, Editor. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1997.

This encyclopedia contains entries on writers, works, and topics relating to the literature of Latin America, including survey articles on individual countries. The entry for Garcia Marquez includes a critical overview of literary work including essays on individual novels (One Hundred Years of Solitude among them) each with its own bibliography; a brief biographical essay; and a select list of primary and secondary sources. Also see articles on:

• The Boom
• Caudillismo and Dictatorship
• Columbia: 19^th- and 20^th-Century Prose and Poetry
• The Historical Novel
• Magical Realism

CALL NUMBER: Ref PQ 7081 .A1 E56 1997

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"GarcÌa M·rquez, Gabriel." EncyclopÊdia Britannica Online. [ Online ] Available: <http://search.eb.com/bol/topic?eu=36733&sctn=1> [Accessed 11 April 2001].

• Columbia — The arts
• Latin American Literature — Recent trends

Lee, Margaret. "Biography — Gabriel Garcia Marquez." [ Online ] Available: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Aegean/9181/info-biography.html [Accessed 11 April 2001].

SOURCES OF RESEARCH MATERIALS: BOOKS

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THE VIRTUAL LIBRARY

Relevant World-Wide Web Sites for Background Information
on
Gabriel Garcia Marquez and His Work

• Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude
  The site, maintained by Margaret Lee, contains an introduction, biography, timeline, gallery, an assortment of links to Web resources on Garcia Marquez, and a bibliography .
  
  Address: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Aegean/9181/main.html

• Gabriel Jose Garcia Marquez: Macando
  Links to several pieces by GarcÌa M·rquez (on his parents' courtship and Eli·n Gonz·lez), several relevant news items, and to a new online magazine on "magical realism."
  
  Address: http://www.themodernword.com/gabo/

Useful Web Sites for Latin American History & Culture

• University of Texas - Latin American Network Information Center
  "The objective of LANIC is to provide Latin American users with access to academic databases and information services throughout the Internet world, and to provide Latin Americanists around the world with access to information on and from Latin America." Includes Country and Subject directories.
  
  Address: http://lanic.utexas.edu/

• Multicultural Resources: Latino-American/Latin American Studies
  A compilation of library and Internet resources--reference books, statistical sources, online databases, government documents, and Web sites--suited for research into Latin American Studies subject areas. Maintained by Schaffer Library, Union College.
  
  Address: http://www.union.edu/PUBLIC/LIBRARY/guide/mclat.html

Useful Web Sites for Literary Research

• Schaffer Library Sources in Literary Resources
  Maintained by Schaffer Library, the site identifies Library and Internet resources suitable for students and faculty conducting research in English and American literature.

  Address: http://www.union.edu/PUBLIC/LIBRARY/virt/literary.html

• Voice of the Shuttle - English Literature - Minority Literatures
  A sub page of "Voice of the Shuttle: Web Page for Humanities Research," an index for the Humanities maintained by Alan Liu, a Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

  Address: http://vos.ucsb.edu/shuttle/eng-min.html

SOURCES OF RESEARCH MATERIALS: PERIODICALS DATABASES

Scholarly periodical databases give a researcher access to articles on specific subjects that have appeared in variety of periodicals. Such databases may cover a broad area of study the way Humanities Abstracts and Arts and Humanities Search do. Others, such as MLA Bibliography, focus more sharply. Most journal articles listed are written by scholars and aimed at other researchers in that field, making them particularly important research sources. Searching a database will give the researcher the bibliographic citation needed to identify and locate a specific work on a topic: author, title of article, journal title, volume and issue number, date, and pages. An abstract briefly summarizes an article's contents.

Some online databases—EBSCOhost, JSTOR, H.W. Wilson Select Full Text in FirstSearch, and ProQuest Direct—include the full text of at least some of the articles online. Databases are accessible via the Library's Electronic Resources Page.

Relevant online databases for research on 100 Years of Solitude and its context include:

• EBSCOhost
• JSTOR
• Project Muse
• ProQuest Direct

OCLC FirstSearch Databases:

• Arts and Humanities Search — citation database
• Humanities Abstracts — includes philosophy, history, culture
• MLA Bibliography
• Wilson Select Full-Text
• WorldCat — books and other library materials

Last revised on April 12, 2001