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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. I don't want to be remembered for One Hundred Years of Solitude or for the Nobel Prize, but rather for my journalism, Gabriel García Márquez said in the final years of his life. 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. Here are the first pieces he wrote while working for newspapers in the coastal Colombian cities of Cartagena and Barranquilla ... his longer, more fiction-like reportage from Paris and Rome ... his monthly columns for Spain's El País. 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.

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"An eye-opening collection of articles that reveal Gabo the journalist...The text is elegantly translated by McLean, and García Márquez fans will welcome these fresh and lively examples of his beautiful, lyrical writing. -- ""Kirkus Reviews (starred review)"" 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's among those rare great fiction writers whose ancillary work is almost always worth finding...He had a way of connecting the souls in all his writing, fiction and nonfiction, to the melancholy static of the universe. -- ""New York Times"" This brilliant collection...puts his journalism on the same level as his fiction, which is quite some level. -- ""Salman Rushdie"" This incisive collection of journalistic pieces from the 1950s to the '80s shows the acclaimed novelist and short story writer García Márquez in his original guise, as reporter...All reflect García Márquez's humor, graceful style, and ability to find the human interest in every topic. -- ""Publishers Weekly"" Whatever his focus, García Márquez is discerning, mesmerizing, and provocative, his timeless journalism works of art and dissent. -- ""Booklist"""

An eye-opening collection of articles that reveal Gabo the journalist...The text is elegantly translated by McLean, and Garcia Marquez fans will welcome these fresh and lively examples of his beautiful, lyrical writing. -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) 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's among those rare great fiction writers whose ancillary work is almost always worth finding...He had a way of connecting the souls in all his writing, fiction and nonfiction, to the melancholy static of the universe. -- New York Times This brilliant collection...puts his journalism on the same level as his fiction, which is quite some level. -- Salman Rushdie This incisive collection of journalistic pieces from the 1950s to the '80s shows the acclaimed novelist and short story writer Garcia Marquez in his original guise, as reporter...All reflect Garcia Marquez's humor, graceful style, and ability to find the human interest in every topic. -- Publishers Weekly Whatever his focus, Garcia Marquez is discerning, mesmerizing, and provocative, his timeless journalism works of art and dissent. -- Booklist

"An eye-opening collection of articles that reveal Gabo the journalist...The text is elegantly translated by McLean, and Garc�a M�rquez fans will welcome these fresh and lively examples of his beautiful, lyrical writing. -- ""Kirkus Reviews (starred review)"" 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's among those rare great fiction writers whose ancillary work is almost always worth finding...He had a way of connecting the souls in all his writing, fiction and nonfiction, to the melancholy static of the universe. -- ""New York Times"" This brilliant collection...puts his journalism on the same level as his fiction, which is quite some level. -- ""Salman Rushdie"" This incisive collection of journalistic pieces from the 1950s to the '80s shows the acclaimed novelist and short story writer Garc�a M�rquez in his original guise, as reporter...All reflect Garc�a M�rquez's humor, graceful style, and ability to find the human interest in every topic. -- ""Publishers Weekly"" Whatever his focus, Garc�a M�rquez is discerning, mesmerizing, and provocative, his timeless journalism works of art and dissent. -- ""Booklist"""

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Gabriel García Márquez (1927-2014) was an author, journalist, and pioneer of the Latin American boom. Among his many books are The Autumn of the Patriarch, No One Writes to the Colonel, Love in the Time of Cholera, Living to Tell the Tale, Memories of My Melancholy Whores, and the classic One Hundred Years of Solitude. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. Anne McLean has won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize twice, as well as the Premio Valle Inclán. She has translated the works of Javier Cercas, Julio Cortázar, Carmen Martin Gaite, Ignacio Padilla, and Evelio Rosero. Jon Lee Anderson began working as a reporter in 1979 for the Lima Times in Peru. During the 1980s he covered Central America first for the syndicated columnist Jack Anderson and later for Time magazine. He has also written for the New York Times, Harper's, Life, and The Nation and is the author of Guerillas: Journeys in the Insurgent World. Bernardo de Paula has played in voice-over roles in cartoons, television, movies, video games, and more.

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