Living to tell the tale
This is an autobiography of the famous Colombian Nobel laureate in which he revives the most important periods of his life, from childhood and adolescence onwards. Building on his memories an interesting story, he also reveals the origins of the characters living in his famous and popular works, as well as the narratives they provided as inspiration for the novel’s fables. Thus, this work, in addition to evoking a dynamic and distinctive life, also becomes a guide for reading through the entire oeuvre of this author and sheds new light on certain parts of his prose.
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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