By Iker Seisdedos
(El País),
in Austin, Texas
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The final chapter of Gabriel García Márquez's literary work has always rested here, in boxes number 1 and number 2 of the writer's archives that the family sold in 2014 to the Harry Ransom Center, an austere fortress nestled in the heart from the University of Austin, Texas.
This chapter, preserved in yellow folders, consists of five hand-annotated versions of the short novel
We will see each other in August
, dated June and July 2004, to which are added two "drawer copies", another entitled
De Los Angeles,
named after the city in which the author worked while battling cancer, a less-than-talkative book report and several excerpts sent in Barcelona to his agent, Carmen Balcells, before, around 2010 or 2011, García Márquez, whose last decade was a slow descent into dementia, says: “
This book is not good.
It must be destroyed.
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