A journey through Eastern Europe
The stories about his journeys to the socialist countries in the mid-1950s were published by the famous Colombian writer and Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez as a young journalist in several South American magazines during 1957, and a little later, in 1978, they were published as a separate book. His journey through the communist countries begins in East Germany and continues through Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary and the former Soviet Union. The author tries to reveal the true face of communism, whose ideological creator is Lenin, and reveals the Kafkaesque atmosphere of the regime.
People stopped and laughed, asking us which planet we came from - all because of the jeans.
Gabriel García Márquez (6 March 1927 - 17 April 2014) was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter, and journalist.
He is known affectionately as Gabo or Gabito throughout Latin America.
Márquez attended Colegio jesuita San José, where he published his first poems in the school magazine Juventud.
He attended law study at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. In that time he began his career as a journalist.
In 1954 he was sent to Rome on an assignment for his newspaper, and since then he has mostly lived abroad, in Paris, New York, Barcelona, and Mexico.
Before 1967 García Márquez had published two novels La hojarasca (The Leaf Storm, 1955) and La mala hora (In Evil Hour, 1962); a novella, El coronel no tiene quien le escriba (No One Writes to the Colonel, 1961), and a few short stories.
Márquez is best-known for his novels, such as Cien años de soledad (One Hundred Years of Solitude, 1967), Crónica de una muerte anunciada (Chronicle of a Death Foretold, 1981), and El amor en los tiempos del cólera (Love in the Time of Cholera, 1985).
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