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Mar 10, 2024 · Book Review Today’s Paper ... “Until August,” nimbly translated by Anne McLean, is a microscopic story, its contents hardly sufficient for it to be called a novella, much less a finished novel.
Mar 6, 2024 · Well, I see it. Until August has literary merit. Originally, this book was planned to be 3-4 times longer; however, Gabriel Garcia Marquez died in 2014. He said that the book didn’t make sense and requested that it be destroyed. Until August is only 110 pages, and the pages are tiny! If you are only looking at page count, you will be ...
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Mar 13, 2024 · The other — “Until August” — occupied him for the next two years, writes the editor Cristóbal Pera, who says that García Márquez ended up with five versions. This was The Post's review ...
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García Márquez worked on Until August in his final years as dementia increasingly eroded his ability to write. Its publication comes a decade after his death, and García Márquez’s sons admit in the book’s preface that the Nobel laureate himself said, “This book doesn’t work. It must be destroyed.”.
Mar 12, 2024 · García Márquez tries his hand at a steamy potboiler, for better or worse. “This book doesn’t work. It must be destroyed.”. So declared García Márquez, tinkering with this novella until his agent quietly approached an editor to help find an ending. The author had a point, but his sons and heirs, “in an act of betrayal,” as they ...
One of Gabriel García Márquez’s shortest books has a title so long that it occupies the entire front cover: The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor: Who drifted on a liferaft for ten days without food or water, was proclaimed a national hero, kissed by beauty queens, made rich through publicity, and then spurned by the government and forgotten for all time.
