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You Thought García Márquez’s Novels Were Great? Check Out His Journalism

WORDS Posted: July 3, 2014 12:42 am

“[He] is known in the English-speaking world for his lyrical, densely descriptive novels, but as a journalist he was acerbically funny, charming, and slightly bizarre. The young García Márquez devoured what surrounded him. Everything was raw material for his newspaper columns – film adaptations of Faulkner, nudism, dancing bears, the letter X, a woman he saw in an ice cream parlor who may have been the ‘ugliest I’ve ever seen in my life, or, on the contrary, the most disconcertingly beautiful’.”

WORDS Published: 06.24.14

Read the story in Boston Review Published: 06.24.14

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