The and other writings García Márquez, Gabriel 1927-2014 creator McLean, Anne 1962- translator Anderson, Jon Lee 1957- writer of foreword Pera, Cristóbal editor text nyu 2019 First edition. monographic eng spa xxiv, 302 pages ; 25 cm "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"-- 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?. Gabriel García Márquez ; translated by Anne McLean ; foreword by Jon Lee Anderson ; edited by Cristóbal Pera. "Translation of: El escándalo del siglo : textos en prensa y revistas (1950-1984)"--Title page verso. Translated from the Spanish García Márquez, Gabriel 1927-2014 Translations into English García Márquez, Gabriel 1927-2014 Traducciones al inglés Literatura colombiana PQ 8180.17 G216s 2019 864/.64 9780525656425 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0525656421 (hardcover : alk. paper) 2019001736 LBSOR/DLC 190223 20260717115937.0 20884407 eng