“Into the good consciences of Europe, and also sometimes into the bad, irrupted with more force than ever the fantastic news of Latin America, this immense homeland of hallucinated men and women who have entered the history, whose infinite obstinacy merges with the legend.”
These words should be kept in mind when reading or rediscovering the masterful work of Gabriel García Márquez.
They were pronounced during the awarding of his Nobel Prize for Literature in Stockholm, in 1982. The Colombian, born in 1927 in Aracataca, transfigured into Macondo in his fictions, presented himself before the Royal Academy of Sweden, not suit and tie, as is the protocol, but dressed in the traditional
guayabera
, the one worn by performers of the popular
vallenato
, and Cuban poets.
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About fifteen years later, after the superb
Love in the Time of Cholera
and
Twelve Wandering Tales
, the man nicknamed “Gabo” has several irons in the fire.
He began writing his voluminous memoirs, which would appear in 2002 under the title
Vivre pour la recount
, thought of a new novel,
Memoir of My Sad Whores
, featuring a 90-year-old old man in love with an adolescent girl, and worked on a series of stories that have remained unpublished because they have not been completed.
Of these brief stories, one in particular will be reworked, a first version of which will appear in 1999 in
El País
, then translated for the
New Yorker.
This is the almost completed version that we are discovering today, in the form of a
novella
of around a hundred pages:
We will see each other in August
(
En agosto nos vemos
), ten years after his death on April 17, 2014 in Mexico, where he settled permanently in the early 1980s. The patriarch of Spanish-American Letters was 87 years old.
A short form
The whole story revolves around Ana Magdalena, a forty-year-old professor…
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