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Gabriel García Márquez's fiction is rooted in magical realism, and to read his work is to enter a world of fanciful occurrences and illusory images. Magical realism refers to fiction in which the realistic and the fantastic are mingled with the same intensity, and García Márquez is often described as a master of this technique. In fact, he has always insisted that the fantasy in his writing is derived from his journalistic approach to real life, saying, "Surrealism comes from the reality of Latin America:"
Like many of García Márquez's earlier works, magical realism colors Of Love and Other Demons throughout. It provides the novella's framework as it unfolds the tale of a haunting, bittersweet romance between an unruly young girl and a bookish priest.
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Gabriel García Márquez, awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982, was born in Aracataca, Colombia, in 1928. 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.
Other books by Marquez include:
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Leaf Storm
No One Writes to the Colonel
In Evil Hour
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Innocent Eréndira and Other Stories
The Autumn of the Patriach
News of a Kidnapping
The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor
Love in the Time of Cholera
The General in His Labyrinth
Strange Pilgrims
His most recent book is the first volume of his autobiography, Living to Tell the Tale.