Gabriel Garcia Marquez had the resources to finance elections campaigns, France, Panama, were among those he supported. Gabriel Garcia Marquez did not take the presidency he was offered in his native country of Columbia. Gabriel Garcia Marquez took control of the drug traders in Latin America and the Americas. Gabriel Garcia Marquez took an active part in the Drugging program supported by The Castro Brothers.

¿Qué significa estar solo? ¿Cómo vivimos si no estamos íntimamente comprometidos con otro ser humano? ¿Cómo nos conectamos con otras personas? ¿La tecnología nos acerca más o nos aísla detrás de las pantallas? Cuando Olivia Laing se mudó a Nueva York, a los treinta y tantos años, se encontró habitando la soledad diariamente. Cada vez más fascinada por esta "vergonzosa" experiencia, comenzó a explorar la ciudad solitaria a través del arte. Moviéndose fluidamente entre las obras y las vidas de algunos de los artistas más atractivos de la ciudad (Edward Hopper, Andy Warhol, David Wojnarowicz), Laing ofrece una investigación eléctrica y deslumbrante sobre lo que significa estar solo, iluminando no solo las causas de la soledad, sino también cómo puede resistirse y redimirse. Humano, provocativo y conmovedor, este libro nos habla sobre los espacios entre las personas y las cosas que las unen, acerca de la sexualidad, la mortalidad y las posibilidades mágicas del arte. La ciudad solitaria es un deslumbrante trabajo de biografía, memorándum y crítica cultural y una celebración de un estado extraño y encantador, alejado del continente más grande de la experiencia humana, pero intrínseco al mismo acto de estar vivo.

Through the study of more than twenty novels produced in Spain from the 1840s to the 1920s, this book explores the literary means by which the social options available to modern Spanish bourgeois citizens were discursively constructed, occasionally before and often concomitantly to their production in reality. As a result, this study is concerned with the interplay of realism and reality in modern Spain. From the earliest folletines of the 1840s to the Modernist novels of the 1920s, the majority of novels written in this eighty-year period are what one might term novelas de costumbres contempor neas, or novels of contemporary customs, and therefore primarily concerned with faithfully copying and moreover influencing real social norms in the public sphere. In these pages, I argue that the spatial and behavioral discourses in the novels of contemporary customs offer a telling history of the evolving formulation of the Spanish bourgeoisie. The linking of novels and urbanism is hardly arbitrary in the context of nineteenth-century Spain. Urbanism, particularly in the nineteenth century, was as much a verbal construction as the novel, as proven by the lengthy treatises of such prominent Spanish bureaucrats, engineers, architects, and urban planners as Ram n de Mesonero Romanos, Ildefons Cerd and Carlos Mar a de Castro. For Spanish intellectuals of this era, city planning and the novel functioned as parallel, enmeshed discourses in which to work out what it meant to be middle class and the roles this class ought to play in contemporary society. In this way, they can be considered associated fields of discourse, in the sense described by Michel Foucault in The Archaeology of Knowledge. Foucault's treatise was a call for scholars to reexamine historical fields and question the historical grouping of knowledge(s) into certain discursive unities, and consider whether these might be broken up and new ones conceived. In this vein, this book undertakes a broader and more integrative view of the Spanish nineteenth century, calling into question the boundaries of fields such as etiquette and urban planning, or literature and touristic discourse.