Farewell to Gabriel García Márquez
Lovers of reading say goodbye to a great writer: Gabriel García Márquez, Nobel laureate in 1982, died in a hospital in Mexico City, following the sudden worsening of severe pneumonia.
Considered one of the most important authors of the twentieth century, Marquez began his career as a journalist in "the now distant 1982. In addition to the great novel"Cent "years of solitude"," Gabo "as many of his friends used to call him, is also famous for the novel Love in the time of cholera and the most recent Memory of my sad whores, below you will find an excerpt:
"There was a single clear star in the sky of roses, a boat gave a disconsolate farewell, and I felt in my throat the Gordian knot of all the loves that could have been and had not been"
His novels have introduced reading lovers to magical realism that masterfully combines real facts and fantasy, catapulting the reader into a world that is hardly possible to escape, which leads you to read page after page without taking your eyes off the ink. black. A rich prose that stimulates the imagination but is at the same time easy, smooth and extremely enjoyable.
Gabriel, who was diagnosed with cancer in 1996 and then Alzheimer's in 2006, leaves behind his wife Bercha and their two children, Rodrigo - a film and television director - and Gonzalo, a graphic designer living in Mexico City.
"Over the years both came, following different paths, to the wise conclusion that it was not possible to live otherwise, nor to love each other otherwise: nothing in this world was more difficult than" love "
- Love in the time of cholera
