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[[Gabriel García Márquez]]. The name that is synonymous with [[Magic Realism]]. Born in Colombia, the man
His books deal with themes like solitude, eternal cycles, [[Banana Republic|Banana Republics]], political disputes and civil wars, themes present in his life and the life of his country with distressful frequence.
He
Nowadays, García Márquez's fame has become [[It's Popular, Now It Sucks|a little awkward to Latin American writers]], since it has generated the impression that all the literature of the zone is about angels, jungles and countryside. As a countermovement, the [[wikipedia:McOndo|McOndo literary movement]] has been created by writers trying to present a more actualized Latin America. He’s still respected by those writers as a good writer, however.
He left writing as he was diagnosed of dementia on 2012, and died on 2014 at 87.
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* ''Leaf Storm'' (1955)
* ''No One Writes to the Colonel'' (1961)
* ''In Evil Hour'' (1962)
* ''Big Mama's Funeral'' (1962, collection of short stories)
* ''[[One Hundred Years of Solitude]]'' (1967)
* ''The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Eréndira and Her Heartless Grandmother'' (1972)
* ''[[The Autumn of the Patriarch]]'' (1975)
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* ''Love in the Time of Cholera'' (1985)
* ''The General in His Labyrinth'' (1989)
* ''Strange Pilgrims'' (1993, collection of short stories)
* ''Of Love and Other Demons'' (1995)
* ''Living to Tell the Tale'' (2002), his autobiography
* ''Memories of My Melancholy Whores'' (2004), his last fiction book
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* [[Anachronic Order]]: The norm on his novels.
* [[Banana Republic]]: The setting of almost all his books.
* [[Battle Butler]]: José Palacios in ''The General in his Labyrinth''.
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* [[Eternal Recurrence]]: A central theme in a lot of stories is the fact that some things are bound to repeat themselves over and over again.
* [[The Generalissimo]]: An important character is most of his books. Actually, in some of them (''[[The Autumn of the Patriarch]]'', ''The General in his Labyrinth'') he's the main character.
* [[Generation Xerox]]: comes with the recurrence theme.
* [[Historical Domain Character]]: Most of the main characters in ''The General in his Labyrinth'', especially Simón Bolívar.
* [[Historical Fiction Literature]]: Many of his books make implicit or explicit allusions to "La Violencia", a period of civil conflict in Colombia. Similarly, some of the books refer to the Thousand Days War (like ''[[One Hundred Years of Solitude]]'' or ''Memories of My Melancholy Whores''). ''The General in his Labyrinth'' deals with the last days of Bolívar.
* [[Honor Before Reason]]
* [[Honor-Related Abuse]]
* [[Lonely
* [[Magic Realism]]: One of the [[Trope Maker|Trope Makers]], definitely [[Trope Codifier]].
* [[Mind Screw]]
* [[Roman à Clef]]: Several of his novels and short stories were inspired by (and often incorporated) several real-life events with just some name changes. García Márquez used to be a journalist by trade, so often he got inspiration while investigating for chronicles.
* [[Small Reference Pools]]: When people are asked to name a Latin American writer, García Márquez is one of the few names that come up.
* [[Turn Out Like His Father]]: another common theme of his works.
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