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Issue No. 4|Archives   The Spectre of Magical Realism Comes to TexasGabriel Garcí­a Márquez ••• When he died last April at age 87, he had for a half century been a candidate for “world’s greatest living writer.” Author of short stories and novels, including his masterpiece, One Hundred Years of Solitude, he received the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 1972 and the Nobel Prize for Literature in Literature in 1982. He was a fierce critic of the United States and had a friend in admirer Fidel Castro, with whom he sometimes shared notes on his works-in-progress. He was banned