An illustration by Jorge F. Hernández.EL PAÍS
It was not until the last lines of the last paragraph were set that the novel that had been perspiring for just over 18 months stopped being called
La casa
.
Many years after starting to navigate that dream that guarantees him more than a century of glory, Gabriel García Márquez reached the third-to-last line of more or less 267 pages to type that “the lines condemned to one hundred years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth ”and the novel found the title that consecrates it forever.
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