Description"The articles and columns in The Scandal of the Century demonstrate that his forthright, lightly ironical voice just seemed to be there, right from the start.
He died in 2014..
He is the author of many works of fiction and nonfiction, including One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera.
He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982.
And while all the work points in style, wit, depth, and passion to his fiction, these fifty pieces are, more than anything, a revelation of the writer working at the profession he believed to be "the best in the world."About the Author Gabriel García Márquez was born in Colombia in 1927. his monthly columns for Spain\'s El Pa s. . . his longer, more fictionlike reportage from Paris and Rome . . .
Here are the first pieces he wrote while working for newspapers in the coastal Colombian cities of Cartagena and Barranquilla .
And while some of his journalistic Writings have been made available over the years, this is the first volume to gather a representative selection from across the first four decades of his career--years during which he worked as a full-time, often muckraking, and controversial journalist, even as he penned the fiction that would bring him the Nobel Prize in 1982. "I don\'t want to be remembered for One Hundred Years of Solitude or for the Nobel Prize but rather for my journalism," Gabriel Garc a M rquez said in the final years of his life.
He had a way of connecting the souls in all his writing, fiction and nonfiction, to the melancholy static of the universe." --Dwight Garner, The New York Times 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. . . .
He\'s among those rare great fiction writers whose ancillary work is almost always worth finding. . . .
Description"The articles and columns in The Scandal of the Century demonstrate that his forthright, lightly ironical voice just seemed to be there, right from the start
