Netflix to adapt One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

by Gabriel García Márquez

 

Colombian-born author Gabriel García Márquez, whose seminal novel One Hundred Years of Solitude is to be adapted by Netflix. Photograph: Miguel Tovar/AP

 

Netflix has acquired the rights to Gabriel García Márquez’s seminal One Hundred Years of Solitude to create the first screen adaptation of the author’s 1967 masterpiece.

 

The streaming company announced on Wednesday that the book will be adapted into a Spanish-language series and filmed largely in the Nobel prize-winning author’s home country of Colombia, with García Márquez’s sons, Rodrigo García and Gonzalo García Barcha, serving as executive producers.

 

Acquiring rights to adapt One Hundred Years of Solitude has been a hard-fought contest.

 

García said that his father was sceptical of the sprawling magical realist novel’s capacity to fit within a traditional film structure, and wanted the story to be told in Spanish.

 

Full Story: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/mar/07/netflix-to-adapt-one-hundred-years-of-solitude-by-gabriel-garcia-marquez

Never heard of him or his book!

Just now, Darkside Gray said:

Never heard of him or his book!

Your loss. 

excellent book that deals with the Latin American psyche told through a family tale, my mother in law who is central American introduced me to it, to me reminds me of "a house for Mr Biswas"

5 hours ago, Darkside Gray said:

Never heard of him or his book!

Nobel Prize for literature. You may know/have heard of some of his other books Love in the Time of Cholera (also a movie) Memories of My Melancholy Whores (written in 2004) A prolific writer. Pick up a book sometime. Enrich your life. He has written dozens of books. 

On 3/8/2019 at 11:15 AM, schweizer said:

excellent book that deals with the Latin American psyche told through a family tale, my mother in law who is central American introduced me to it, to me reminds me of "a house for Mr Biswas"

I just finished reading it last week. Very entertaining.