ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE: THE DELUXE SLIPCASED EDITION - Rare Fine Copy of The First Deluxe Slipcased Edition/First Printing

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia (Translated by Gregory Rabassa)

ISBN 10: 0062380443 / ISBN 13: 9780062380449

Edité par New York City, NY: Harper & Row, 2014, 2014

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1st Printing. 417 pages. Published in 2014. New Special Edition of the author's masterpiece. One of the greatest books of the 20th century. The 2014 First Deluxe Slipcased Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent printings, of which there are innumerable. Published in a small and limited first print run as a Slipcased Facsimile Edition that sold out upon publication. The First Edition Thus is now also rare. Re-presents, in a lovely Deluxe Edition, Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "Cien Anos de Soledad" in the magisterial English translation by Gregory Rabassa. A touchstone of English translation of Latin-American literature that the author himself hailed, effusively and gratefully, as superior to his original. Which, of course, seems unlikely but transcendent anyway. "The greatest revelation in the Spanish language since 'Don Quixote' of Cervantes" (Pablo Neruda). "The first piece of literature since the 'Book of Genesis' that should be required reading for the entire human race. Garcia Marquez has done nothing less than to create in the reader a sense of all that is profound, meaningful, and meaningless in life" (William Kennedy). An absolute "must-have" title for Gabriel Garcia Marquez collectors. This title is one of the greatest novels ever written. This is one of very few copies of the 2014 First Deluxe Slipcased Edition/First Printing still available online and despite its imperfection (slight wear on the slipcase, but NO flaws on the book or DJ) is still in fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Precedes and should NOT be confused with all other subsequent printings. Copies of the 1970 First Hardcover Edition command several thousands of dollars, regardless of condition, rightly so. Copies of this Special Edition available online have very serious flaws (because of shoddy handling on the publisher's part or because they were read) yet command up to $300. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare copy thus. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. One of the greatest writers of the 20th century. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 0062380443.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE: THE DELUXE SLIPCASED EDITION - Rare Fine Copy of The First Deluxe Slipcased Edition/First Printing
• Éditeur: New York City, NY: Harper & Row, 2014
• Date de parution: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0062380443
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780062380449
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition.
• État de l'article: Fine
• État de la jaquette: Fine
• Signé: no

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Synopsis

"One Hundred Years of Solitude is the first piece of literature since the Book of Genesis that should be required reading for the entire human race....Mr. Garcia Marquez has done nothing less than to create in the reader a sense of all that is profound, meaningful, and meaningless in life."
—William Kennedy, New York Times Book Review 

“More lucidity, wit, wisdom, and poetry than is expected from 100 years of novelists, let alone one man.”
—Washington Post

One of the twentieth century’s most beloved and acclaimed novels, available in a special limited slip-cased edition.

In 1967, One Hundred Years of Solitude launched Gabriel García Márquez to international fame, and cemented his reputation as a literary legend. A central figure in the Latin Boom, García Márquez was the most celebrated practitioner of the literary style that has become known as magic realism, and in 1982, received the highest literary achievement: the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Chilean poet and Nobel Laureate Pablo Neruda called One Hundred Years of Solitude, “the greatest revelation in the Spanish language since Don Quixote of Cervantes.” In the New York Times legendary critic John Leonard proclaimed, “with a single bound, Gabriel García Márquez leaps onto the stage with Günter Grass and Vladimir Nabokov.” And writer William Kennedy has hailed García Márquez’s masterpiece as, “the first piece of literature since the Book of Genesis that should be required reading for the entire human race. Mr. García Márquez has done nothing less than to create in the reader a sense of all that is profound, meaningful, and meaningless in life.”

Over four decades after its publication, One Hundred Years of Solitude remains one of the most beloved and venerated books in world literature. A rich and brilliant chronicle of life and death, it tells the story of the mythical town of Macondo through the lives of seven generations of the doomed Buendía family. In the noble, ridiculous, beautiful, and tawdry story of the Buendías, one sees all of humanity, just as in the history, myths, growth, and decay of Macondo, one sees all of Latin America.

Alternately reverential and comical, One Hundred Years of Solitude interweaves the political, personal, and spiritual, bringing a new consciousness to storytelling; this radiant work is no less than an accounting of the history of the human race.

This special edition is a re-designed jacketed hardcover featuring colored endpapers in a beautiful, elegant slipcase.

À propos de l?auteur

Gabriel García Márquez was born in 1927 in the town of Aracataca, Columbia. Latin America's preeminent man of letters, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982. García Márquez began his writing career as a journalist and is the author of numerous other works of fiction and nonfiction, including the novels The Autumn of the Patriarch and Love in the Time of Cholera, and the autobiography Living to Tell the Tale. There has been resounding acclaim for his life's work since his death in April 2014.