Article: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Living to Tell the Tale.(Book Review)

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Living to Tell the Tale, Knopf

In 1951 Gabriel Garcia Marquez, hard at work on his first novel, was offered some unusual advice by a much-younger brother: "'the first thing a writer ought to write is his memoirs, when he can still remember everything.'" Author of such acclaimed novels as One Hundred Years of Solitude (1970) and Love in the Time of Cholera (1988), and progenitor of what has come to be known as magical realism, Garcia Marquez is also endowed with a memory both expansive and meticulous. His long-awaited memoir, Living to Tell the Tale, the first in a planned autobiographical trilogy, is a richly imagined volume, brimming with ...

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