Living to Tell the Tale

von Gabriel García Márquez

496 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

In this long-awaited first volume of a planned trilogy, the most acclaimed and revered living Nobel laureate begins to tell us the story of his life. Like all his work, Living to Tell the Tale is a magnificent piece of writing. It spans Gabriel García Márquez’s life from his birth in 1927 through the start of his career as a writer to the moment in the 1950s when he proposed to the woman who would become his wife. It has the shape, the quality, and the vividness of a conversation with the reader—a tale of people, places, and events as they occur to him: the colorful stories of his eccentric family members; the great influence of his mother and maternal grandfather; his consuming career in journalism, and the friends and mentors who encouraged him; the myths and mysteries of his beloved Colombia; personal details, undisclosed until now, that would appear later, transmuted and transposed, in his fiction; and, above all, his fervent desire to become a writer. And, as in his fiction, the narrator here is an inspired observer of the physical world, able to make clear the emotions and passions that lie at the heart of a life—in this instance, his own.Living to Tell the Tale is a radiant, powerful, and beguiling memoir that gives us the formation of Gabriel García Márquez as a writer and as a man.

• Themen: Geschichte und Archäologie Geschichte Amerikanische Geschichte
• ISBN: 9781400041343
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 04.11.2003
• Größe: 241 x 161 mm
• Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Übersetzung: Edith Grossman