García Márquez in the Soviet Union
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- Received: 15 Sept. 2025
- Approved after reviewing: 22 Oct. 2025
- Date of publication: 25 Dec. 2025
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- Publication Type: Research Article
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- Abstract:
This essay commemorates the 55th anniversary of the first Russian translation of Gabriel García Márquez’s novel One Hundred Years of Solitude by V.S. Stolbov and N.Ya. Butyrina, published in the journal Inostrannaya Literatura (1970, iss. 6–8). The first part of the essay details Márquez’s initial visit to the USSR in 1957, drawing on the writer’s own accounts of his stay, his contemporaries’ memoirs, and biographical research. The second part analyzes the reception of Márquez’s work— primarily his novel One Hundred Years of Solitude — in Soviet Latin American studies and literary criticism. In addition to memoirs, articles, and books about Márquez, the analysis incorporates materials from roundtables and discussions published in the journal Latinskaya America.
- Keywords: García Márquez, Soviet Union, travelogue, One Hundred Years of Solitude, translation, reception, myth, power, socialism, Soviet Latin American studies, Inostrannaya literatura, Latinskaya America.
- For citation:
Girin, Yuri. “GarcÍa Márquez in the Soviet Union.” Literature of the Americas, no. 19 (2025): 260–295. https://doi.org/10.22455/2541-7894-2025-19-260-295
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