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4 days, 18 hours ago

How do you adapt ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’ into a TV show? By taking creative risks.

LA Times

When Colombian director Laura Mora was first approached about joining the team tasked with adapting Gabriel García Márquez’s novel “One Hundred Years of Solitude” into a TV series, she was more than skeptical. With the arrival of streaming giants like Netflix and their commitment to bolstering local talent and productions, García Márquez’s family — which includes his son, filmmaker Rodrigo …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Is this your dream job? Scot lands post as lighthouse keeper on remote Australian island with only colony of penguins for company

Daily Mail

A Scottish man is living out his dream as a lighthouse keeper on a remote Australian island with only a colony of penguins for company. Sandy Duthie, 42, landed the role on Gabo Island, off the coast of Victoria, after the previous lighthouse keeper and island caretaker decided to retire after 25 years. Sandy Duthie, 42, landed the role on …

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1 month, 4 weeks ago

Gabo Island: whales, a lighthouse and isolation

ABC

Rachel Mealey: How would you like to live alone on a remote island for six months a year? Fiona Broom: Leo op den Brouw has spent half of the past 25 years alone on a remote island. Fiona Broom: As we sit on the verandah of the Keepers Cottage on Gabo Island, a pod of whales breaches in front of …

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9 months ago

Anna Magdalena’s years of solitude in Gabo’s voice

Hindustan Times

Love, solitude, and remembrance are the prominent themes in the late Latin American novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s oeuvre. Broken love, a desolate place, an ancient island, an antiquarian hotel, a forlorn cemetery, a feeling of tenderness for the life around, passionate seductions, grief-stricken separation, wickedness in man-woman relations, an affinity for the hazard, an affection for sombre solitude — all …

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9 months, 1 week ago

The magic of Gabo

The Hindu

Remember how the “most handsome and well-mannered” Italian blond Pietro Crespi died in Cien años de soledad? Basically very little magic and a lot of hard work is involved … I never have done any carpentry but it’s the job I admire most, especially because you can never find anyone to do it for you.” While recollecting his father’s memory, …

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9 months, 2 weeks ago

Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s lost novel asks important question about author’s rights

The Independent

The big draw for the launch of the inaugural 2006 Hay Festival in Cartagena was Gabriel Garcia Marquez. For his fans, ‘Until August’ will be a posthumous amuse bouche, no more or less The inevitable commentary that looms over questions of authorial intent surfaces again with the publication of Marquez’s novella, Until August. open image in gallery Novel idea: the …

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2 years, 5 months ago

Inherent vice: What to do with decaying masterpieces?

BBC

Inherent vice: What to do with decaying masterpieces? Naum Gabo/Tate Naum Gabo's Construction in Space: Two Cones was constructed in a material that was pioneering at the time – but which proved not to endure Responding to the inherent vice that destroyed Gabo's sculptures, a gallery might, of course, consider using old photos and other documentation to make as-new plastic …

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3 years, 2 months ago

Sudipta Datta reviews A Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes, by Rodrigo Garcia

The Hindu

“Life is not what one lived, but what one remembers and how one remembers in order to recount it.” The epigraph of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s autobiography, Living to Tell the Tale, was another indication that he worked with memory, his raw material for the books. ‘I have killed the colonel’ Rodrigo, screenwriter and filmmaker, says he felt almost ashamed as …

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3 years, 4 months ago

How to watch filmmaker Rodrigo Garcia discuss ‘A Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes’