Considered by many to be the greatest Latin American author, Gabriel García Márquez encompasses the imagination of peasant settlers and the talent of nomadic gypsies in his writing. Most famous for his celebrated epic novel One Hundred Years of Solitude, this Colombian Nobel Prize winner is the father of a new literary genre called magical realism. With a touch of authenticity and a hint of fantasy, he creates a …showed first 75 words of 876 total…

…showed last 75 words of 876 total…With his work, he has stretched the boundaries of what is real and commonly believed to be natural. His dual rendition of time in One Hundred Years of Solitude has portrayed the vital observation that humanity does not always move forwards and that history does, in fact, repeat itself. Finally, it is with pure genius and simplicity that García Márquez replicated his grandmother's brick face on paper.