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What Nelson and Was have done is pick 14 splendid songs by some peerless songwriters -- including Bob Dylan, Peter Gabriel, Paul Simon and Willie himself -- and weave them into a subtly colored spiritual stocktaking, a sort of internal monologue that's like a road movie set to music. It's one measure of their singular achievement that disparate as their sources may be, they all focus finely on Nelson's restless spirit. Across the Borderline is as achingly, bracingly personal as any record he's made since the seminal Red Headed Stranger...
...sleep. The man, named Tobias, perceives the odor of roses rising from the sea. The villagers soon become aware of the scent, the village becomes a carnival and a mythically rich American named Mr. Herbert arrives to solve everyone's problems. Such is the core of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's short story, "The Sea of Lost Time," now a dramatic production appearing at Adolphus Busch Hall...
...circular structure of time in this family saga reminds one, inevitably, of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude, However, with its wistful quality and its preoccupation with love in extreme old age, Hijuelos' book bears a closer affinity to Love in the Time of Cholera. A Pantagruclian gusto concerning sea, food, and bodily functions also informs the novel...
...influence of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Latin American magical realism as a burden for you and other Hispanic writers, something you can't get away from...
...first novel, Like Water for Chocolate, Mexican screenwriter Laura Esquivel brought Gabriel Garcia Marquez's brand of magic realism into the kitchen and the bedroom, the Latin woman's traditional castle and dungeon. The film version was written by Esquivel and directed by her husband Alfonso Arau, known to U.S. audiences for his performances in funky-flaky westerns. In The Wild Bunch he played a punk gunslinger and in Three Amigos! the malefic El Guapo, who spits out the immortal line "A plethora of pinatas...