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Chinese mourn the death of Garcia Marquez
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Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the Colombian writer most famous for his work "One Hundred Years of Solitude," passes away on April 17, 2014, at his home in Mexico City at the age of 87. |
Chinese writers and citizens mourned the death of Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the Colombian writer most famous for his work "One Hundred Years of Solitude," after the great writer passed away on April 17 at his home in Mexico City at the age of 87.
Chinese people are familiar with the name of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Marquez, who worked as a reporter for many years before dedicating himself to writing fiction, had been living in Mexico City since the 1960s.
If former Soviet Union writer Maxim Gorky can be said to have influenced Chinese modern literature, then Marquez undoubtedly influenced China's new contemporary literature. Chinese writers including Mo Yan, A Lai, Chen Zhongshi and Yu Hua are some of the writers that drew inspiration from Marquez. The classification of Mo Yan's works as "hallucinatory realism" and his winning of the 2012 Nobel Prize for Literature is the best example of this influence.
A master of magical realism, along with Latin American writers Julio Cortazar, Juan Rulfo, Carlos Fuentes and Mario Vargas Llosa, Garcia Marquez wrote numerous well-known novels including "No One Writes to the Colonel" and "Autumn of the Patriarch." "One Hundred Years of Solitude," his masterpiece published in 1967, has been translated into 35 languages and has sold more than 30 million copies.
