“See you in August”, the text that Nobel Prize winner Gabriel García Márquez discarded and was rescued by his children, will come to light on March 6.
“See you in August” is the title of the award’s posthumous novel Nobel Colombian Gabriel García Márquez, which will be released this Wednesday. The book consists of 120 pages and was written during the last years of the writer’s life.
The decision to publish it was Rodrigo and Gonzalo García Barchachildren of the renowned novelist, who declared: “we agreed that there was a book there that was very worth reading.” The author had said before his death in 2014 that the book was of no use and had to be “destroyed.”
However, his children and his editors considered – after analyzing the manuscripts – that it had some literary value that might not have been perceived by the novelist. “It seemed to us that the book was much better than we remembered, so we began to suspect that just as he lost the ability to write, he lost the ability to read. So it is possible that he has lost his ability to judge the book,” declared Rodrigo , about his last months of life.
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What is “See you in August” about?
The work is set in the present 20 years ago, and is about Ana Magdalena Bach, a middle-aged woman, who, like other summers, returns to the Caribbean island where her mother is buried, where she can get out of her routine and live new experiences. her leaving aside her life of chastity and having erotic encounters with strangers.
Initially, they were five autonomous stories that had the same protagonist, and García Márquez even read one of these stories in public in 1999. Although his son Rodrigo pointed out that the work is not as polished as the great books of his father, highlighted that it has many of the characteristics of the award-winning writer, such as “beautiful prose, knowledge of human beings, the power of description and the creation of a character.”
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The publication of “See you in August”
The author of “One Hundred Years of Solitude” considered the book a “disorder”so he decided not to reveal more of it than the fragment read in 1999 and another published in the Colombian magazine Change and in the Spanish newspaper The countryand limited himself to giving some manuscripts of the book to his relatives, which were reserved in the Harry Ransom Center, a library at the University of Texas.
Although it was rumored that the work had no end, it was complete, so the children had to carry out an “archaeology” task to reconstruct it.
Furthermore, García Bach commented that “In August See You” is García Márquez’s last novel and that there are no more unpublished texts by him. On Wednesday the Spanish version will be released in various countries and on March 20 the English version will be released, according to what he revealed. Pilar Reyeseditorial director of Penguin Random House.
Source: Ambito
