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Apr 17, 2011

Tasneem rated it:

لو كان هناك نجمة سادسة و سابعة وعاشرة .. لما تردددت لحظة

إنه غابرييل جارسيا ماركيز.. الذي أحمد الله كثيراً أني عشت في الزمن الذي عاش فيه ليروي!

و بالرغم من أن هذه الرواية ليست رواية و إنما جزء حي من حياته و روحه.. إلا أنا كرهتُ جدا انتهائها و أؤمن تمام الإيمان أن هناك الكثير و الكثير الذي لم يكتب بعد و أريد و بشدة أن أعرفه...

يا مين يقول لماركيز أن يُكمل حكيه عن حياته لـ أجل النبــي

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Aug 18, 2011

Germancho rated it:

Este libro son dos. El primero es un reportaje a los pueblos colombianos grandes (como Bogota) y chicos (como Cataca) a traves de los recuerdos de infancia y juventud de GGM. Precisamente uso la palabra reportaje porque es en lo que Garcia Marquez mas brilla: cuenta las aventuras y tropiezos de su familia con una humanidad que solo el puede transmitir. Y no solo la humanidad de los personajes! A traves de la primera parte del libro uno se encuentra con la humanidad intrinseca de un barco de vapo More...

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Dec 05, 2007

Amanda rated it:

This book was written by my favorite author about being a great author. Perhaps, it is small-minded and greedy of me but, an overwhelming part of me just wants all that easy poetry without experiencing the mountain of work that it requires. It's similar to the reasons I go out to eat without needing to see the kitchen. Though at times, regret failing to do so.
In the end, I'm glad to have read what makes this extraordinary man tick and found myself stalling so I could continue to read the More...

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Jun 30, 2011

Adela rated it:

Îmi aduc aminte că m-am întâlnit fix înainte să plec în Barcelona cu prietena mea Ilinca care mi-a spus că a citit autobiografia lui Marquez și că i-a plăcut foarte mult. Îi spuneam că și eu îmi doresc de mult să o citesc, iar după multe luni mă găsesc scriind recenzia cărții.

M-a suprins foarte tare această carte. S-a dovedit a fi complet diferită față de ceea ce îmi imaginam eu înainte de a o cumpăra. Vivir para contarla prezintă parte din viața lui Gabriel Garcia Marquez așa cum și More...

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Jul 27, 2010

Rowland rated it:

"Life is not what one lived, but what one remembers and how one remembers it in order to recount it".

So begins the first volume of the autobiography of Marquez detailing the amazing circumstances and events and characters that filled the first 27 years of his life. Born in Columbia at a time when "people lived in the shadow of poetry", when "poetry (was) the only concrete proof of the existence of man", Marquez was, above all else, a man of letters. He More...

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Jun 24, 2010

Elliot rated it:

As you might expect if you have read any of his books, Gabriel Garcia Marquez's memoir is not simply a linear telling of Gabo's childhood and rise to success. On the contrary, the story of his life is told with the same foreshadowing he uses in many of his stories, which he uses to tie together an amazing portrayal of his growth as an artist and a human being. He talks of many of the events and people in his life which influenced the magical-realism which he came to write, and talks about the po More...

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Oct 13, 2010

Tifnie rated it:

Thank goodness for second hand books, otherwise I never would have picked up this book to read.

I enjoyed reading this book not only because Love in the Time of Cholera is one of my favorite books, but because Gabriel Garcia Marquez lived his younger years in such a state of celebration and in the truest sense of the word - present.

I dog-eared many pages with references to books that made an impact on his life, couple of which I have read, many of which I haven't, and 1 of More...

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Feb 27, 2011

Vivien rated it:

Marquez has blown me away on occasion - Love in the Time of Cholera is one of my favourite books - but lately I'm finding that his prose is so good that it's bad. I get lost in it, then lose my interest in the storyline. It's just too dense, too convoluted, beautiful to read but with no landscape to hook me on (see: 100 Years of Solitude, where multiple characters with the same name left me cold). I think some authors use this technique to great effect, but more often than not this doesn't inclu More...

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Sep 22, 2009

Amy rated it:

If you know Gabriel Garcia Marquez's writing then you'll know that you are getting into a very detailed and lengthy story of his first 30 years with long sentences and lovely adjectives. I thoroughly enjoyed the book and the account of the history of Colombia he gives. It is amazing how much his real life influenced his fiction writing. His love for words and reading is inspiring. It also makes me feel better knowing he isn't a good speller even to this day. I recommend this book to anyone who h More...

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Dec 30, 2011

Brian rated it:

This is the first in the trilogy of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's autobiography. I found it entertaining and informative about the early life of the Nobel Prize winners life in Columbia. I do recommend, for those of you without a working knowledge of Columbian geography, that an Atlas is helpful in understanding his movements as a teen. One thing I really like about Marquez, and which now I realize is a Latin American cultural trait, is the matter of fact treatment and weaving of the supernatural int More...

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May 20, 2011

Rachel rated it:

This book took me forever to read first because of finals and then because I lost my copy while in the Dominican Republic. However, I really enjoyed reading it for its insight into García Márquez's formative years and the context it provides for Love in the Time of Cholera, One Hundred Years of Solitude, etc.

A lot of people (hipsters) are really down on magical realism at the moment, and I agree that a lot of the genre's authors are overrated (e.g. Allende), but there can be no knoc More...

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Jun 09, 2011

Zeinab rated it:

بوحٌ على بوح.. هي سيرة ماركيز الذاتية.

ماركيز المفتون بسحر الحكاية، يقرر أخيراً أن يخلع عنه معطف الروائي ويحكي لنا عن ماركيز الإنسان، في مضمومة قوية من براعة الحكي -ما لم يقدر على الخلاص منه أبداً- ممزوجة بفن الاستقطاب، انفلتت في تداعيها الحر مدفوعة بصراحة وصدق صادمين، ولغة أدبية اعترافية النزعة.

حقيقةً ما زلت لا أصدق كيف تقدر شخصية عامة وذات ثقل -أياً كانت- على كتابة سيرة ذاتية كاشفة وربما فاضحة أيضاً كهذه.. لا يعمدون فيها للترشيح، ولا لمقص رقابة على عالمهم السفلي.

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Mar 15, 2011

Lana rated it:

I finally started this book last Sunday, on a cold, wet, dreary afternoon perfect for curling up with the magnificent memoir by Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez. A fat book at 533 pages, it's the first volume of a planned trilogy. And as you'd expect, Marquez moves slowly, interweaving personal mythology with an epic political history of Columbia in a narrative that cuts back and forth through time rather than pursuing a conventional linear chronology. The effect is disorienting at first bu More...

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Oct 10, 2010

Andrés rated it:

En la sinopsis se define a este libro como una visita guiada a la obra de García Márquez, lo cual me parece muy acertado. En muchos pasajes de este libro uno puede encontrar el génesis de cada uno de los trabajos que conforman la vida profesional de este autor. Aparte de ello es una autobiografía que muestra una visión más integra del autor antes de entrar de lleno a la literatura como el gran autor que es.

Debo decir que al mismo tiempo esta obra es un verdadero desmadre al no mantener More...

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Nov 10, 2010

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Jun 26, 2010

Hayfa rated it:

” الحياة ليست ما يعيشه أحدنا ، وإنما هي ما يذكره، وكيف يتذكره ليرويه”

لن أتحدث في السطور القادمة عن الكاتب الذي سحرني خلال عام وبضعة أشهر، إنما عن الإنسان الذي قرأت سيرة حياته التي لا تختلف مقدار ذرّه عن حياة أي إنسان آخر!

إلا أن غابيتو قررّ أن يكتبها بروحه التي لا يمكن أن تسبر غورها إلا من خلال الابحار في رواياته وقصصه القصيرة.

نصيحة قبل تتبع أحرفي هنا، هناك الكثير من الأحداث التي نقلها غابرييل غارسيا ماركيز عن حياته الحقيقية لرواياته ، ربما تكون اق More...

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May 23, 2008

Aunt rated it:

I first read Garcia Marquez in college while workig on my Master's in Spanish-language literature. Reading this first volume of his autobiography was delightful! The characters that populate his novels and stories are alive and real in this tome, and his non-linear/non-chronological style adds what I found to be interesting twists to the autobiography. Though it's a work of non-fiction, you feel as if you're in a novel as the events of his life are as fantastic as the events of his works. As More...

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Feb 26, 2010

Jil rated it:

This five stars is kind of for the book, but mostly for me - I got this book in January of 2008 from the girlfriend of my host father in Argentina after she found out that I had read Love in the Time of Cholera and 100 Years of Solitude in Spanish. I got maybe 50 pages in, determined to read it aloud to myself to understand the flow of Spanish better, then abandoned it because English books were easier and could be read in the presence of other people.

This summer, I returned to it, g More...

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Aug 30, 2011

Maria rated it:

Non mi ha entusiasmato quanto mi aspettassi, tuttavia è indiscutibile la capacità narrativa dell'autore e il suo senso dell'umorismo adorabile, nonché la magia che riesce sempre a creare, quell'illusione di catapultarti in un mondo per sempre perduto, un'oasi nella Colombia fantastica dove anche i gringos vengono cullati dai ricordi di quella terra.
La parte che più ho apprezzato è la descrizione dei personaggi della sua famiglia, ho ricordato con piacere l'emozione provata nel leggere Cent' More...

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Oct 06, 2011

Mohammed rated it:

عُشْتُ لأرى، Living to Tell the Tale، يقول جابرييل جارسيا مركيز! بعد رواية “مئة عام من العزلة” التي نال جائزة نوبل عنها، وها هو بأسلوب لا يقل روعة وسحر عن أسلوبه المعتاد يواصل إثارة الشغب الساكن في نفوس تقرأة، فهو كما يقول عاش ليروي! ونحن نقول عاش لنقرأ ما يراه روايه في خُطى ما يكتب.

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Aug 12, 2008

Jessica rated it:

I barely gave this book a three, seriously considering a two for a long time. I have been waiting to write this review for months -- because that's how long it took to get through this thing. I love the author and his other fiction, so I was excited about this book... and then disappointed. There are flashes of his descriptive abilities and narrative voice, but overall the book just seems to meander from event to event in his life. At times it reads like a list of people he knew ("That was More...

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Jun 14, 2011

Laura rated it:

in a way it reads like a shadow to his fiction - if you've read several of his works, it's kind of bizarre to read this, finding bits from all the stories strung along into one narrative. i also have the feeling that knowing the background takes some of the shine away from his brilliant stories/novels. nevertheless, a really good read (though not comparable to his fiction)- and it brought me up a little bit as to recent Colombian history.

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Dec 20, 2009

Mike rated it:

Extremely warm and engaging, and of course wonderfully written (as well as wonderfully translated, I suppose). Garcia Marquez writes as if he sees himself as the protagonist in his own life. I most enjoyed his descriptions of his friends, many of them fellow writers and journalists, and their all-night bouts of drinking, partying, carousing and talking endlessly about art, poetry, cinema and literature in various Columbian cities. That's the way to live -- I wish I could have been there. As a jo More...

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Apr 04, 2008

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براي كساني كه آثار (ماركز) را دوست دارند خواندن اين كتاب جالب است. مثلاً خواننده متوجه مي‌شود كه نام دهكده‌ي "ماكوندو" را اين نويسنده از كجا پيدا كرده؟ و يا بن مايه‌ي داستان كتاب "عشق در سال‌هاي وبا" از كجا آمده؟ و يا ريشه‌ي داستان‌هاي كوتاه او به صورت واقعي از كجاست؟
به هر حال از اين كتاب به جز اين ترجمه، 2 ترجمه ديگر ديده‌ام. اما اين مترجم با ترجمه‌ي كتاب بعدي و آخرين ماركز( خاطرات روسپيان محزون من) توانست نام خودش را در بين خوانندگان آثار اين نويسنده جا بيندازد
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Dec 18, 2010

Samuel rated it:

Me encantó leer este libro, es un aliciente para aquellos que han elegido el camino de la literatura, además, poder conocer la historia de vida de boca del nobel colombiano es un lujo único.
Pero si algunos quieren saber la vida completa de García Marquez, no lo van a lograr con sus memorias, proque estas solo incursionan hasta mas o menos sus 27 años o el momento que sale como periodista corresponsal a Europa.

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Feb 22, 2009

Ashleigh rated it:

I read this after I had read all of his novels that I could get my hands on. Almost every striking thing in his novels is a veiled story from his own life. It's a big, fat book and took me forever to get through, but you feel like you are making friends with him as you read. He tells you what he read, what he talked about with friends, what he felt and did during the civil turbulence of 20th century Colombia.

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Mar 03, 2008

HM rated it:

با خواندن زندگينامه گابو ردپاي بسياري از داستان هايش را در ميان اتفاقات زندگي واقعي اش مي بينيم و برايمان روشن مي شود كه ايده هاي عشق درسال هاي وبا، صدسال تنهايي ، پاييز پدرسالار و ساير آثار بزرگ او از كجا سرچشمه مي گيرند . به اين مطلب در زندگي و آثار هرمان هسه و داستايوسكي هم قبلن بر خورده ام و برايم جالب است كه شايد هر اثر بزرگ و شاهکار ادبی تنها زاييده تخيل يك نويسنده نباشد و انعكاس رويدادهاي روزمره اي باشد كه افراد باريك بيني چون ماركز از كنار آن ها به راحتي نمي گذرند More...

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Jun 22, 2010

Mercedes rated it:

I'm biased, I know, because Garcia Marquez is my favorite writer, but what I love about this autobiography is how he connects the dots of his life with what he writes in his novels. It's a great glimpse into his life, his work, his first steps as a writer (complete with wonderful advice he received along the way), and his writing process.

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May 31, 2010

Jennifer rated it:

So glad to be done! I guess I have trouble with Marquez' writing style. It feels like someone is telling me a VERY long story, slowly, while translating it from Spanish to English. For the most part, the material is interesting, there are some good stories. There is also a lot of complete garbage. It does explain some general things about the mentality of the Columbian... Marquez comments near the end of the book - something to the effect that Columbians had been killing each other for years - n More...

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Mar 30, 2009

Isabelle rated it:

Het lijkt bijna godslastering om zoiets te beweren, maar dit boek kon een wat betere eindredactie gebruiken. Marquez vertelt erg wijdlopig, soms echt een beetje té. Maar het blijft natuurlijk een fantastische inkijk in 's mans leven en het eindigt met een cliffhanger van jewelste. Ik hoop vurig dat de man nog een vervolg schrijft.

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