Electric Literature. Gabriel García Márquez (Author of One Hundred Years of Solitude) Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist.
García Márquez, familiarly known as "Gabo" in his native country, was considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century. In 1982, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. He studied at the University of Bogotá and late worked as a reporter for the Colombian newspaper El Espectador and as a foreign correspondent in Rome, Paris, Barcelona, Caracas and New York. He wrote many acclaimed non-fiction works and short stories, but is best-known for his novels, such as One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) and Love in the Time of Cholera (1985). His works have achieved significant critical acclaim and widesprea...moreGabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist.
Rabindranath Tagore - The Complete Works. Wuthering Expectations. BABUL'S WORLD. The Kafka Project. During these last decades the interest in professional fasting has markedly diminished.
It used to pay very well to stage such great performances under one's own management, but today that is quite impossible. We live in a different world now. Besides casual onlookers there were also relays of permanent watchers selected by the public, usually butchers, strangely enough, and it was their task to watch the hunger artist day and night, three of them at a time, in case he should have some secret recourse to nourishment. This was nothing but a formality, instigated to reassure the masses, for the initiates knew well enough that during his fast the artist would never in any circumstances, not even under forcible compulsion, swallow the smallest morsel of food; the honor of his profession forbade it.
Such suspicions, anyhow, were a necessary accompaniment to the profession of fasting. A small impediment, to be sure, one that grew steadily less. “Well, clear this out now!” The Last Leaf by O Henry. In a little district west of Washington Square the streets have run crazy and broken themselves into small strips called "places.
" These "places" make strange angles and curves. One Street crosses itself a time or two. An artist once discovered a valuable possibility in this street. Suppose a collector with a bill for paints, paper and canvas should, in traversing this route, suddenly meet himself coming back, without a cent having been paid on account! So, to quaint old Greenwich Village the art people soon came prowling, hunting for north windows and eighteenth-century gables and Dutch attics and low rents.
At the top of a squatty, three-story brick Sue and Johnsy had their studio. PoemHunter.Com - Thousands of poems and poets. Poetry Search Engine. Recent Updates. Manushi.