That text by this author defines the "crux" of the title condition as "a lack of conventional means to render our lives believable," and cites an explorer's description of a Patagonian native shocked to see his own reflection in a mirror.
In a text written by this man, he states that he does not want to embody Tonio KrÃ¶ger's "dreams of uniting a chaste north to a passionate south." That text by this author defines the "crux" of the title condition as "a lack of conventional means to render our lives believable," and cites an explorer's description of a Patagonian native shocked to see his own reflection in a mirror. This author called for literature to create an "opposite utopia" at the end of a work whose opening paragraph discusses Antonio Pigafetta's fanciful account of the New World. He claimed that (*) "Latin America neither wants, nor has any reason to be, a pawn without a will of its own," in a speech that quotes a William Faulkner statement delivered on a similar occasion: "I decline to accept the end of man." This man used the title, "The Solitude of Latin America" for the acceptance speech for his 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature. For 10 points, name this Colombian author of One Hundred Years of Solitude.
In a text written by this man, he states that he does not want to embody Tonio KrÃ¶ger's "dreams of uniting a chaste north to a passionate south."
Gabriel  Garcia Marquez