GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ
u003cbu003e"The articles and columns in u003ciu003eThe Scandal of the Centuryu003c/iu003e 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." --Dwight Garner, u003ciu003eThe New York Timesu003c/iu003eu003c/bu003eu003cbru003e u003cbru003e u003cbu003eFrom 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.u003c/bu003eu003cbru003e u003cbru003e "I don't want to be remembered for u003ciu003eOne Hundred Years of Solitudeu003c/iu003e 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 fictionlike reportage from Paris and Rome . . . his monthly columns for Spain's u003ciu003eEl País.u003c/iu003e 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."
