The award-winning Colombian author, who was on the verge of death ten years ago, stated that writing his postmortem book, which is scheduled for release on Wednesday, was an enormous job.
Garcia Marquez’s final book was a great struggle, according to his sons.
Released in its original Spanish as “En agosto nos vemos” on March 6, “Until August,” the last book by the Nobel Prize-winning giant of Latin American “magical realism,” will also be available in English later this month.
In the years leading up to his untimely death in 2014, the man dubbed “Gabo” started penning the tale of Ana Magdalena Bach, a middle-aged woman who travels to a Caribbean island to visit her mother’s grave every August, using the opportunity to forget about her family and engage in sensual encounters with random people.
Though he publicly read the first chapter in 1999, he declined to publish the work since he wasn’t happy with the rest of it. He gave his family members drafts of the manuscript instead.
Rodrigo and Gonzalo Garcia Barcha, the author’s sons, stated in an online press conference from Spain on Tuesday that their father, who gained worldwide recognition for books
In the last years of his life, characterised by illness and memory loss, the book “became an indecipherable little thing,” according to Rodrigo.
Close family members, however, made the decision to preserve the manuscript and additional “Until August” fragments at the Harry Ransom Centre, an American archive and library at the University of Texas at Austin.
Gonzalo Garcia claims that the brothers were persuaded to compile their writings into a book by scholars who perused excerpts of the pieces, which would be published on the anniversary of their father’s 97th birthday.
The “ability to judge” his own writings and “read” became impaired, he continued, “just as Gabo lost the ability to write.”
Archeology’-Pilar Reyes, editorial director of Penguin Random House, has announced that the book will be available in Spanish on Wednesday and in English on March 20.
Garcia Marquez’s children said that their father completely developed the story of his protagonist Ana Magdalena Bach prior to his death, despite rumours that “Until August” did not have a conclusion.
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“The novel was, if anything, a little scattered in an indeterminate number of originals, but it was complete,” remarked Gonzalo Garcia. To put the pieces together and reach a conclusion, he described it as “a work of archaeology”.
None more secret Garcia Marquez novels in the wings, according to Rodrigo’s prediction.
The key force behind a significant literary wave in Latin America throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Garcia Marquez is regarded as one of the most renowned writers in the world and passed away in Mexico City.
Netflix, the streaming service, will launch a series this year that is based on his classic, “One Hundred Years of Solitude.”
