Summary
The biography of the 1982 Nobel Laureate in Literature tells the story of Márquez, a young man who rose from obscure provincial journalist to progenitor of a new literature. Full description
- Acknowledgements
- Maps
- Foreword
- Prologue : from origins obscure (1800-1899)
- pt. I. Home : Colombia : 1899-1955
- 1. Of colonels and lost causes (1899-1927)
- 2. The house at Aracataca (1927-1928)
- 3. Holding his grandfather's hand (1929-1937)
- 4. Schooldays : Barranquilla, Sucre, Zipaquirá (1938-1946)
- 5. The university student and the Bogotazo (1947-1948)
- 6. Back to the Costa : an apprentice journalist in Cartagena (1948-1949)
- 7. Barranquilla, a bookseller and a Bohemian group (1950-1953)
- 8. Back to Bogotá : the ace reporter (1954-1955)
- pt. II. Abroad : Europe and Latin America : 1955-1967
- 9. The discovery of Europe : Rome (1955)
- 10. Hungry in Paris : La Bohème (1956-1957)
- 11. Beyond the Iron Curtain : Eastern Europe during the Cold War (1957)
- 12. Venezuela and Colombia : the birth of Big Mama (1958-1959)
- 13. The Cuban Revolution and the USA (1959-1961)
- 14. Escape to Mexico (1961-1964)
- 15. Melquíades the Magician : One hundred Years of Solitude (1965-1966)
- 16. Fame at last (1966-1967)
- pt. III. Man of the world : celebrity and politics : 1967-2005
- 17. Barcelona and the Latin American boom : between literature and politics (1967-1970)
- 18. The solitary author slowly writes : The Autumn of the Patriarch and the wider world (1971-1975)
- 19. Chile and Cuba : García Márquez opts for the Revolution (1973-1979)
- 20. Return to literature : Chronicle of a Death Foretold and the Nobel Prize (1980-1982)
- 21. The frenzy of renown and the fragrance of Guava : Love in the Time of Cholera (1982-1985)
- 22. Against official history : García Márquez's Bolívar (The General in His Labyrinth) (1986-1989)
- 23. Back to Macondo? News of a historic catastrophe (1990-1996)
- 24. García Márquez at seventy and beyond : memoirs and melancholy whores (1996-2005)
- Epilogue : immortality
- the new Cervantes (2006-2007)
- Appendix. Family trees
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.