It is inevitable: a tribute to Gabriel Garcia Marquez will try to achieve a remarkable opening line. The writer Arthur C Clarke said, “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” Similarly, a historical account as narrated by ancient rustics will be indistinguishable from magic. In 1975, a few years after the publication of the novel, neurologists formally recognised a …
In some ways the back story of the publication of this novel is as intriguing as the novel itself. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, one of the world’s greatest story tellers, died in 2014. Every year on 16 August Ana Magdalena, a middle-aged woman, travels from the city to an unnamed island by ferry to lay a bunch of gladioli on her …
When an author decrees that his unpublished works be destroyed, why task a family member or friend with the job when they are unlikely to carry it out? Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s sons have done the same with Until August which had been nestling among his papers at the University of Texas in Austin. “My work on this edition has been …
