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Gabriel García Márquez (1927 - 2014)https://sites.google.com/a/xtec.cat/st-george-jordi/home/gabrielgarciamarquezhttp://quizlet.com/41078422/ http://quizlet.com/Serrat

Institut Josep Serrat i BonastreForeign Language Department

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Ninguna persona merece tus lágrimas y quien se las merezca no te hará llorar.

Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry

Glossary:Tear: llàgrimaTo deserve –d –d: merèixerTo cry –ied –ied: plorarWhoever: ‘quienquiera’

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Glossary• dream: somni• old: vell/a• to grow grew grown

old: envellir• to pursue –d –d:

perseguir• true: veritat

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Glossary:• Life: vide• How: com• To matter –ed –ed: tenir importància• To remember –ed –ed: recordar• What: què, allò que

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Glossary:Because: perquèTo be was been over: acabar-seTo happen –ed –ed: succeir, To smile –d –d: somriureTo cry –ied –ied: plorar

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Glossary• age: edat• coverage: seguiment

mediàtic;• End: fi• endless: sense fi• endlessly: inacabable,

infinit; • mind: ment; • miraculous: miraculós• review: ressenya,

crítica• sleight: domini• solitude: soletud• To die –d –d: morir• To work –ed –ed:

treballar• work: feina, treball

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Glossary:• Best-known: millor

conegut, més conegut per

• Everything: tot• Laureate: escriptor

premiat• popular, more

popular than, the most popular: popular, més popular que, el més popular

• Nobel laureate: Premi Nobel

• since: des de• To blend –ed- -ed:

barrejar• To die –d –d: morir• To know knew

known: saber, conèixer

• To outsell outsold outsold: vendre més que

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Glossary:• key: clau,

important• master: mestre• magic realism:

realiste màgic• must-reads:

lectures imprescindibles, que cal llegir

• Nobel laureate: Premi Nobel

• To find found found: trobar

• To round –ed –ed up: resumir

• Voice: veu• Solitude: solitud

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Glossary• But: però• Appeal: interés,

atractiu• Fiction: ficció• Landscape:

paisatge• Literary: literari• Nobel Prize:

Premi Nobel• Own: propi• Pioneer: pioner• Prize: premi• Rooted: arrelada• Solitude: solitud• To die –d –d:

morir• To receive –d –d:

rebre• To root –ed –ed:

arrelar• Who: qui

Glossary -2-: Acclaimed: famós. Solitude: solitud. Filled: ple To fill –ed –ed: omplir, emplenar. To love –d –d: estimar, agradar

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Key termsaudaciousness: audàciaMaster builder:mestre creadorreader: lectorstyle: estilTo attend –ed –ed: atendre, presenciarTo sense –d –d: percebreTo understand understood understood: comperendreWhich: que, el qual, la qual

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It is hard now to recover the thrill of underground discovery, the hand-to-hand ardour, the feeling of claim engendered by A Hundred Years of Solitude. But Love in the Time of Cholera, like Autumn of the Patriarch before it, gives us something altogether new. With gorgeous, lucent writing, full of brilliant stops and starts, majestic whirls, thrilling endings, splendour and humour, the magician of our century takes on psychological realism.

(M. Simpson, Love Letters, LRB)http://www.lrb.co.uk/v10/n15/mona-simpson/love-letters

KEY words:ardour: ardor, pasiónfeeling of claim engendered: sensacions provocades pergorgeous: magnífic, esplèndidlucent: luminóssplendour: esplendorthrill: emoció; thrilling : emocionats whirls: remolins, girs

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Glossary:• An appreciation:

en reconeixement• often: sovint• event:

esdeveniment• Implausible:

inversemblant, gens plausible,

• Implausibility: inversemblança

• Lifetime: tota una vida

• normalcy: normalitat

• surprised: sorprés• To remember –ed

–ed: recordar• To seem –ed –ed:

semblar• To talk –ed –ed

about: parlar

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http://www.democracynow.org/2014/4/18/he_gave_us_back_our_history

Glossary:• Also: també• About: sobre• Chilean: chilena• Favorite: preferit, favorit• How: com• Legacy: llegat• Life: vida• What: què, quin• Work: feina, treball, obra• Writer: escriptora• Writing: escriptura• Today: avui• Thinking: pensament• To impact –ed –ed: impactar• To join –ed –ed: unir-se• To share –d –d: comparteix• To think thought thought:

pensar

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http://dncdn.dvlabs.com/ipod/dn2014-0418.mp4

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http://www.democracynow.org/2014/4/18/he_gave_us_back_our_history

Glossary:• History: història• To give gave given: donar• To give gave given back: retornar

Una entrevista en exclusiva a Democracy Now, programa dirigit per els periodistes Amy Goodman i Juan González amb l’escriptora chilena Isabel Allende, autora, entre d’altres obres de La casa de los espíritus, per parlar de l’obra de l’escriptor i Premi NobelGabriel García Marquez, Amèrica llatina i el realisme màgic emesa el dia en que morí l’autor, el 18 d’abril de 2014, titulada Ens retornà la nostra història

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http://www.democracynow.org/2014/4/18/he_gave_us_back_our_history

… The boom of Latin American literature began in 1963 with a novel by an unknown writer called Mario Vargas Llosa. (…) But the most important voice, was García Márquez with “One Hundred Years of Solitude”. And every novel that he wrote afterward was not only acclaimed by the critics and translated, but they were popular novels. It was like reading Dickens or Balzac. People in the streets read García Márquez.

(Author Isabel Allende, DN 18/4/2014)

Glossary:• afterwards: després, encabat• acclaimed: ben acollida, elogiada• author: escriptor/a• boom: bum• called: anomenat• In the streets: en els carrers• like: com• People: gent• pillar: pilar• reading: llegir• unknown: desconegut• To begin began begun: començar• To read read read: llegir• To write wrote written: escriure

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http://www.democracynow.org/2014/4/18/he_gave_us_back_our_history

… Every book García Márquez wrote had popular acclaim. So, in a way, he conquered readers and conquered the world and told the world about us, Latin Americans, and told us who we are. In his pages, we saw ourselves in a mirror, in a way.

(Author Isabel Allende, DN 18/4/2014)

Glossary:• Author: escriptor/a• about us: sobre nosaltres• acclaim: bona acollida• every: cada• in a way: d’alguna forma• mirror: mirall• ourselves: nosaltres mateixos• reader: lector• To see saw seeen: veure• To tell told told: dir, explicar,

contar• To write wrote written: escriure• who: qui• world: món

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In Latin America, some writers, have been elected president. Writers are consulted as if they were prophets or astrologers. They are supposed to know everything. …Somehow writers summarize our reality, the collective dreams, the collective hopes, the fears. They give us back our history, which is usually magical and horrible.

(Author Isabel Allende, DN 18/4/2014)

Glossary:• Author: escriptor/a• as if: com si• dream: somni• Everything: tot• fear: por, temor, recança• hope: esperança• somehow: d’alguna forma• To tell told told: dir, explicar,

contar• To be was/were been: ser, estar• To give gave given back: retornar• To know knew known: saber,• To write wrote written: escriure• which: el qual, la qual• writer: escriptor/a

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I think that what happened with magic realism and why people all over the world connected to it is because the world and life are very mysterious. We don’t control anything. We have no explanations for everything. And we try to live in a controlled world, because we feel safe.

(Author Isabel Allende, DN 18/4/2014)

Glossary:• author: escriptor/a• all over the world: d’arreu• anything: res• everything: tot• life: vida• magic realism: realisme màgic• safe: segur/a• To feel felt felt: sentir• To happen –ed –ed: passar,

succeïr• To think thought thought:

pensar, creure • To try –ied –ied: intentar• why: per què• world: món

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… In “One Hundred Years of Solitude” by Gabriel García Marquez and the books that followed, there was this explosion of the unbelievable, which is around us all the time. And it’s an acceptance that we don’t control anything, there are no explanations, that there is something—there are spirits. (Author Isabel Allende, DN 18/4/2014)

Glossary:• acceptance: acceptació• author: escriptor/a• anything: res, qualsevol cosa• around us: al voltant nostre• all the time: sempre, a tota hora• followed: següents• hundred: Mil• solitude: solitud• something: quelcom• spirits: espírits• There is / There are: hi ha/n• To follow -ed –ed: seguir• unbelievable: increïble• us: de nosaltres• which: que, el qual• year: any

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http://www.democracynow.org/2014/4/18/he_gave_us_back_our_history

… Magic realism begins with the conquistadors that came to Latin America, and they were writing these letters to the king or to Spain in which they talk about a continent that had fountains of youth, that you could pick up the gold and the diamonds from the floor, that people had unicorns or had one foot so big that at siesta time they would raise it like a parasol to have shade… This is in the conquistadors’ letters.

(Author Isabel Allende, DN 18/4/2014)

Glossary:• diamond: diamant• floor: terra• fountain: font• gold: or• king: rei• like: com• letter: carta• Magic realism: realisme màgic• Shade: ombra• To come came come: venir• To pick –ed –ed up: recollir• To talk –ed –ed about: parlar de• To raise –d –d: pujar• To write wrote written: escriure• which: el qual• youth: joventut

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Mi años de soledad / One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez read aloud in Spanish and English by author Isabel Allende in DN, 18/04/2014

"Muchos años después, frente al pelotón de fusilamiento, el coronel Aureliano Buendía había de recordar aquella tarde remota en que su padre lo llevó a conocer el hielo. Macondo era entonces una aldea de veinte casas de barro y cañabrava construidas a la orilla de un río de aguas diáfanas que se precipitaban por un lecho de piedras pulidas, blancas y enormes como huevos prehistóricos. El mundo era tan reciente, que muchas cosas carecían de nombre, y para mencionarlas había que señalarías con el dedo."

"Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice. At that time Macondo was a village of twenty adobe houses, built on the bank of a river of clear water that ran along a bed of polished stones, which were white and enormous, like prehistoric eggs. The world was so recent that many things lacked names, and in order to indicate them it was necessary to point."

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