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The scandal of the century : and other writings / Gabriel García Márquez ; translated by Anne McLean ; foreword by Jon Lee Anderson ; edited by Cristóbal Pera.
Van Pelt Library PQ8180.17.A73 A2 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- García Márquez, Gabriel, 1927-2014, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Works. Selections. English
- Language:
- English
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- García Márquez, Gabriel, 1927-2014.
- Spanish literature--Translations into English.
- Spanish literature.
- Essays.
- García Márquez, Gabriel, 1927-2014--Translations into English.
- García Márquez, Gabriel.
- Genre:
- Essays.
- Translations.
- Physical Description:
- xxiv, 302 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2019.
- Summary:
- "From one of the titans of twentieth-century literature, collected here for the first time: a selection of his journalism from the late 1940s to the mid-1980s--work that he considered even more important to his legacy than his universally acclaimed works of fiction"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- The presidential barber
- Topic for a topical piece
- An understandable mistake
- The lonely hearts killer
- Death is an unpunctual lady
- The strange idolatry of la Sierpe
- A man arrives in the rain
- The house of the Buendias
- Literaturism
- The precursors
- The postman rings a thousand times
- The Aracataca tiger
- H.H. goes on vacation (fragment)
- The scandal of the century
- The disappearing women of Paris: are they in Caracas?
- "I visited hungary" (fragment)
- The world's most famous year
- Only twelve hours to save him
- June 6, 1958: Caracas with no water
- Misadventures of a writer of books
- I can't think of any title
- The sandinista heist : chronical of the assault on "the hog house"
- The cubans face the blockade
- The specter of the Nobel Prize
- Telepathy without strings
- The new oldest profession
- Yes, nostalgia is the same as it ever was
- Horror story for new year's eve
- Magic Caribbean
- Poetry, in children's reach
- The river of life
- Maria of my heart
- Like souls in purgatory
- Something else on literature and reality
- My personal Hemingway
- Ghosts of the road
- Bogota 1947
- Tales of the road
- My other me
- Poor good translators
- Sleeping beauty on the airplane
- Writer wanted
- Obregon or the boundless vocation
- Literature without pain
- From Paris, with love
- Return to Mexico
- Okay, we'll talk about literature
- That news board
- Return to the seed
- How do you write a novel?
- Notes:
- "This is a Borzoi Book published by Alfred A. Knopf."
- Translation of: El escándalo del siglo : textos en prensa y revistas (1950-1984).
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Schaffer fund bookplate.
- Contains:
- Presidential barber.
- Topic for a topical piece.
- Understandable mistake.
- Lonely hearts killer.
- Death is an unpunctual lady.
- Strange idolatry of la Sierpe.
- Man arrives in the rain.
- House of the Buendias.
- Literaturism.
- Precursors.
- ISBN:
- 9780525656425
- 0525656421
- OCLC:
- 1089841687
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