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Title Statement | The scandal of the century: and other writings / Gabriel Garcia Marquez ; translated by Anne McLean ; foreword by Jon Lee Anderson ; edited by Cristóbal Pera. |
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Author | García Márquez, Gabriel, 1927-2014 |
Additional Contributors | McLean, Anne,1962- |
Pera, Cristóbal | |
Publication | New York: Alfred A. Knopf,2019. |
Edition | First edition. |
Extent of Item | xxiv, 302 pages |
ISBN | 0525656421 9780525656425 |
Other Number | 3560227 |
General Notes | "This is a Borzoi Book published by Alfred A. Knopf." Translation of: El escándalo del siglo : textos en prensa y revistas (1950-1984). |
Contents | The presidential barber -- Topic for a topical piece -- An understandable mistake -- The lonely hearts killer -- Death is an unpunctual lady -- The strange idolatry of la Sierpe -- A man arrives in the rain -- The house of the Buendias -- Literaturism -- The precursors -- The postman rings a thousand times -- The Aracataca tiger -- H.H. goes on vacation (fragment) -- The scandal of the century -- Are they in caracas the women who disappear in Paris? -- "I visited hungary" (fragment) -- The world's most famous year -- Only twelve hours to save him -- June 6, 1958: Caracas with no water -- Misadventures of a writer of books -- I can't think of any title -- The sandinista heist : chronical of the assault on "the hog house" -- The cubans face the blockade -- The specter of the Nobel Prize -- Telepathy without strings -- The new oldest profession -- Yes, nostalgia is the same as it ever was -- Horror story for new year's eve -- Magic Caribbean -- Poetry, in children's reach -- The river of life -- Maria of my heart -- Like souls in purgatory -- Something else on literature and reality -- My personal Hemingway -- Ghosts of the road -- Bogota 1947 -- Tales of the road -- My other me -- Poor good translators -- Sleeping beauty on the airplane -- Writer wanted -- Obregon or the boundless vocation -- Literature without pain -- From Paris, with love -- Return to Mexico -- Okay, we'll talk about literature -- That news board -- Return to the seed -- How do you write a novel?. |
Summary | "From one of the titans of twentieth-century literature, collected here for the first time: a selection of his journalism from the late 1940s to the mid-1980s--work that he considered even more important to his legacy than his universally acclaimed works of fiction"--Provided by publisher. |
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By Name | García Márquez, Gabriel,1927-2014 |