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Bell-Villada, Gene H. was born on December 5, 1941 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Son of Gene H. Bell and Carmen (Villada) Romero. came to the United States 1959.
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From reviews of the first edition: "A compulsively readable account of the life and works of our greatest...writer of fantasy. With a keen appreciation of Borges himself and a pleasant disregard for the critical clichés, Bell-Villada tells us all we really want to know about the modern master-from pronouncing his name to understanding the stories." —New York Daily News "Of the scores of Borges studies by now published in English, Bell-Villada's excellent book stands out as one of the freshest and most generally helpful.... Lay readers and specialists alike will find his book a valuable and highly readable companion to Ficciones and El Aleph." —Choice Since its first publication in 1981, Borges and His Fiction has introduced the life and works of this Argentinian master-writer to an entire generation of students, high school and college teachers, and general readers. Responding to a steady demand for an updated edition, Gene H. Bell-Villada has significantly revised and expanded the book to incorporate new information that has become available since Borges' death in 1986. In particular, he offers a more complete look at Borges and Peronism and Borges' personal experiences of love and mysticism, as well as revised interpretations of some of Borges' stories. As before, the book is divided into three sections that examine Borges' life, his stories in Ficciones and El Aleph, and his place in world literature.
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Incorporates information that has become available since Borges' death in 1986. This book is divided into three sections that examine Borges' life, his stories in "Ficciones" and "El Aleph", and his place in world literature.
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(Gabriel Garcia Marquez is one of the most influential wri...)
Gabriel Garcia Marquez is one of the most influential writers of our time, with a unique literary creativity rooted in the history of his native Colombia. This revised and expanded edition of a classic work is the first book of criticism to consider in detail the totality of Garcia Marquez's magnificent oeuvre.In a beautifully written examination, Gene Bell-Villada traces the major forces that have shaped the novelist and describes his life, his personality, and his politics. For this edition, Bell-Villada adds new chapters to cover all of Garcia Marquez's fiction since 1988, from The General in His Labyrinth through Memories of My Melancholy Whores, and includes sections on his memoir, Living to Tell the Tale, and his journalistic account, News of a Kidnapping. Moreover, new information about Garcia Marquez's biography and artistic development make this the most comprehensive account of his life and work available.
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(Gabriel Garcia Marquez is one of the most influential wri...)
Gabriel Garcia Marquez is one of the most influential writers of our time. His unique literary creativity is rooted in the history of the region, with all its social and political implications. In this beautifully written examination of Garcia Marquez and his work, Gene Bell-Villada traces the major forces that have shaped the Colombian novelist and describes his life, his personality, and his political opinions. He considers Garcia Marquez's place in world literature and analyzes his short fiction and all of his novels from the great and complex One Hundred Years of Solitude -- a cultural phenomenon the likes of which we have seldom seen -- through Love in the Time of Cholera. He shows why Garcia Marquez has achieved a confluence of high art and popular success that is virtually unique in the twentieth century. Bell-Villada examines the narrative works of Garcia Marquez for their historical and human content, for their literary technique and structure, and for their expert use of fantasy, ribaldry, humor, and satire. He describes Garcia Marquez as a global phenomenon and as a local boy, as a Nobel Laureate and as a Latin American Everyman, as a political writer and as a novelist of love. The book will appeal to a broad spectrum of readers -- generalists who enjoy his novels, teachers and students, and literary specialists and Latin Americanists investigating the culture and politics of the region.
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Bell-Villada, Gene H. was born on December 5, 1941 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Son of Gene H. Bell and Carmen (Villada) Romero. came to the United States 1959.
Bachelor, University Arizona, 1963. Diploma, University Paris, 1966. Master of Arts, University California, Berkeley, 1967.
Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1974.
Instructor, State University of New York, Binghamton, 1971-1973;
lecturer, Yale University, New Haven, 1973-1974;
from assistant to professor department romance languages, Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts, since 1975;
chair department, Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 1993-1995. Instructor Middlebury (Vermont) College, summer 1971-1972. Reader, grader AdvancePlacement Readings, Ednl.
Testing Svc., 1978-1985. Visiting professor Wellesley (Massachusetts) College, 1984-1985, 89-90. Resident director Academy Year in Spain program Hamilton College, Madrid, 1986-1987, 95-96.
Freelance editorial consultant, since 1987.
(Gabriel Garcia Marquez is one of the most influential wri...)
( From reviews of the first edition: "A compulsively re...)
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Member Modern Language Association, Latin American Studies Association, American Association Teachers Spanish and Portuguese.
Married Audrey M. Dobek, August 9, 1975.