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GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ: Chronicle of a Death Foretold |
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Gabriel García Márquez was born in the northern Colombian town of Aracataca on March 6, 1928. He spent his childhood there living with his mother's parents and listening to their stories. He attributes much of his narrative style to his grandmother's homespun, colorful tales, while his grandfather steeped him in military lore of Colombian history that would later figure prominently in his writing.
For instance, Col. Aureliano Buendía in One Hundred Years of Solitude was based on General Rafael Uribe Uribe, who "before I was born . . . had come through Aracataca and drunk a few beers with my grandfather and other veterans." Also in Aracataca García Márquez developed a taste for the bizarre. "The world of my childhood," he has recalled, "was spent in a large, very sad house with a sister who ate earth, a grandmother who prophesied the future, and countless relatives of the same name who never made much distinction between happiness and insanity."
When he was eight, his grandfather died and Gabriel left Aracataca for life with his parents in Bogotá. The capital city on the high Andean plain was cold and drizzly compared to his first home. At the age of twelve, he went off to boarding school, briefly in the major northern city of Barranquilla and then in Zipaquirá, near Bogotá. Feeling that "school was a penance and that icy town an act of injustice," he took refuge in books. "I would read bad poetry on the one hand and Marxist texts lent to to me secretly by my history teacher on the other."
In 1947, he moved back to Bogotá to attend law school at the National University, but two things derailed his professional intentions. First was the explosive brew of Colombian politics. In April 1948, Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, leader of the Liberal left wing, was assassinated in downtown Bogotá in broad daylight. This triggered the Bogotazo, a spell of rioting which began in the capital and eventually caused over half a billion dollars in property damage nationwide. García Márquez quickly fled the climate of violence and returned to the coast, this time to Cartagena. Second, his interest in writing had already been awakened. "When I read [Kafka's] Metamorphosis, at 17, I realized I could be a writer," he has written.
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