The scandal of the century : and other writings
Title:
The scandal of the century : and other writings
Author:
García Márquez, Gabriel, 1927-2014, author.
ISBN:
9780525656425
Personal Author:
Uniform Title:
Works. Selections. English. 2019
Edition:
First edition.
Physical Description:
xxiv, 302 pages ; 25 cm
General Note:
Translation of: El escándalo del siglo : textos en prensa y revistas (1950-1984).
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 -- Are they in caracas the women who disappear in Paris? -- "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?.
Abstract:
"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.
Personal Subject:
Added Title:
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.