Shepard's writing, especially in "Life During Wartime", is often compared with the style of magic realism pioneered by Garcia Marquez.
Francesca Lia Block has cited the writings of Gabriel Garcia Marquez as an influence on her own work.
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In the New York Times Book Review, Pankaj Mishra points out that Amitav Ghosh in THE GLASS PALACE owes "his instinct for storytelling on a grand scale" to Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
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"Finally, his lesson was the discovery that each day's work should only be interrupted when one knows where to begin again the next day. I don't think that any more useful advice has every been given about writing. It is, no more and no less, the absolute remedy for the most terrible specter of writers: the morning agony of facing the blank page...I don't know who said that novelists read the novels of other writers only to figure out how they are written. I believe it's true. We aren't satisfie more...
"[When] I began to read THE METAMORPHOSIS...the first line almost knocked me off the bed. I was so surprised....When I read the line I thought to myself that I didn't know anyone was allowed to write things like that. If I had known, I would have started writing a long time ago. So I immediately started writing stories."
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Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez began his career as a journalist for a series of liberal South American newspapers in the late 1940s. Eventually, he began to write fiction, and became part of "The Boom", the second generation of Latin-American writers. Many of his early works were dark and melancholy, influenced by Kafka. In the mid-'60s, Garcia Marquez went through a period of writer's block, but emerged from it with the idea for his masterwork, ONE HUNDRED YEARS OS SOLITUDE, which set more...
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exige muita paciencia para a leitura ,mas vale a pena o autor conseguiu reuniu na obra uma mistura da realidade politica com o onirico