Gabriel García Márquez

Bob · Post by **Bob** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 6:35 am

An interesting photo of Nobel winnign Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez sporting a black eye, supposedly from an altercation with Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/29/books ... ?th&emc=th

You may have to register to see the photo and the article, but registration is free and will give you access to most of the NY Times articles. I'm a big fan of García Márquez' writing, and have often used his short story "A very old man with enormous wings" in my class Evolution in Biololgy and Literature.

Terechu · Post by **Terechu** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 3:28 am

Thanks for the link, Bob. I remember seeing that picture and reading about the incident with Vargas Llosa some 30 years ago. Both of them were world famous already and it was quite a story.
I read "One hundred years of solitude" in 1973 for the first time, and have re-read it about 10 times since. It has lost none of its magic.