Audiobook9 hours
Solitude & Company
Written by Silvana Paternostro and Edith Grossman
Narrated by Robert Fass
Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
4.5/5
()
About this audiobook
An oral history biography of the legendary Latin American writer and Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Márquez, brimming with atmosphere and insight
Irreverent and hopeful, Solitude Company recounts the life of a boy from the provinces who decided to become a writer. This is the story of how he did it, how little Gabito became Gabriel Garcia Márquez, and of how Gabriel Garcia Márquez survived his own self-creation.
The book is divided into two parts. In the first, BC, before Cien años de soledad (One Hundred Years of Solitude), we hear from his siblings and those who were friends before Garcia Márquez became the universally loved Latin American icon. The second part, AC, describes the man behind the legend that Garcia Márquez became. From Aracataca, to Baranquila, to Bogota, to Paris, to Mexico City, the solitude that Garcia Márquez needed to produce his masterpiece turns out to have been something of a raucous party whenever he wasn't actually writing. Here are the writers Tomás Eloy Martinez, Edmundo Paz Soldán, and William and Rose Styron; legendary Spanish agent Carmen Balcells; the translator of A Hundred Years of Solitude, Gregory Rabassa; Gabo's brothers Luis Enrique, Jaime, Eligio, and Gustavo, and his sisters Aida and Margot; Maria Luisa Elio, to whom A Hundred Years of Solitude is dedicated; and many others.
Irreverent and hopeful, Solitude Company recounts the life of a boy from the provinces who decided to become a writer. This is the story of how he did it, how little Gabito became Gabriel Garcia Márquez, and of how Gabriel Garcia Márquez survived his own self-creation.
The book is divided into two parts. In the first, BC, before Cien años de soledad (One Hundred Years of Solitude), we hear from his siblings and those who were friends before Garcia Márquez became the universally loved Latin American icon. The second part, AC, describes the man behind the legend that Garcia Márquez became. From Aracataca, to Baranquila, to Bogota, to Paris, to Mexico City, the solitude that Garcia Márquez needed to produce his masterpiece turns out to have been something of a raucous party whenever he wasn't actually writing. Here are the writers Tomás Eloy Martinez, Edmundo Paz Soldán, and William and Rose Styron; legendary Spanish agent Carmen Balcells; the translator of A Hundred Years of Solitude, Gregory Rabassa; Gabo's brothers Luis Enrique, Jaime, Eligio, and Gustavo, and his sisters Aida and Margot; Maria Luisa Elio, to whom A Hundred Years of Solitude is dedicated; and many others.
Related to Solitude & Company
Related audiobooks
Selected Letters of Norman Mailer Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Foreword: A Selection from the John Updike Audio Collection Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFigures in a Landscape Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The World Minute at Waterloo Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Mother Land Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Bartleby the Scrivener Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Hotel Honolulu Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Travels with Herodotus Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Fury Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Murder in Mount Holly Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Elephanta Suite Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Their Heads Are Green and Their Hands Are Blue Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Spider's House: A Novel Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLet It Come Down: A Novel Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsI Thought My Father Was God Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Discovery of Eldorado Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Reading My Father: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Madman Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Tales of Betrayal Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Lucian Freud: Eyes Wide Open Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Rivers Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Mr Bones: Twenty Stories Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Distant Episode Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Burning Secret (Unabridged) Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Franz Kafka: The Life and Legacy of One of the 20th Century’s Most Influential Writers Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Book of Laughter and Forgetting: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5And We Came Outside and Saw the Stars Again: Writers from Around the World on the COVID-19 Pandemic Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Delicate Prey Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWhat Makes an Apple?: Six Conversations about Writing, Love, Guilt, and Other Pleasures Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Biography & Memoir For You
If He Had Been with Me Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5From Blood and Ash Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Institute: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Local Woman Missing Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The House in the Cerulean Sea Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Divine Rivals: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Twisted Love Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5And Then There Were None Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Paris Apartment: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Fairy Tale Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Series of Unfortunate Events #1 Multi-Voice, A: The Bad Beginning Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Pet Sematary Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5In Five Years: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Nothing to See Here Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5When No One Is Watching: A Thriller Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Elon Musk Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Bell Jar Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Year of Magical Thinking Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Dutch House: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Razorblade Tears: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Child Called It: One Child's Courage to Survive Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Overstory Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: One Introvert's Year of Saying Yes Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Ivy League Counterfeiter Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Leave the World Behind: A Novel Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5See You on the Way Down: Catch You on the Way Back Up! Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of September 11, 2001 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Related categories
Reviews for Solitude & Company
Rating: 4.666666666666667 out of 5 stars
4.5/5
3 ratings0 reviews