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Article: Garcia Marquez' magical memoir of youth
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- November 9, 2003
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Living to Tell the Tale
By Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Knopf. $26.95.
Early in Living to Tell the Tale, the first of Gabriel Garcia
Marquez's planned three-volume autobiography, the esteemed Colombian-
born novelist lauds the work of a writer "whose prose was so amiable
he could convince the reader that things had happened only because he
recounted them."
The passage recalls the style and proficiency of a once
influential Caribbean newspaper columnist, but it is perhaps an even
more fitting encapsulation of Garcia Marquez's work.
This book, in a fine translation by Edith Grossman, is not without
some substantial flaws, foremost among them sheer mass: Garcia
Marquez's first 28 years, the period ...