In Memoriam: Gabriel García Márquez (1927 - 2014)

Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Four Short Stories (Online), And My Favorite Novella

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Gabriel José De La Concordia García Márquez : Love Counsel... And Other Insights

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Richard Avedon had long wanted to make a portrait of Gabriel García Márquez. He first photographed the writer on a rainy day in 1976, but he felt that the portrait was a failure. In 1999, he wrote a letter to Jon Lee Anderson, whose Profile of García Márquez had just appeared in The New Yorker, expressing his desire to try again. “I have a group of portraits which are meaningful to me—Borges, Beckett, and Francis Bacon—and of course, Marquez belongs in their company. Congratulations on a disciplined and wonderful portrait of a great man. I know how difficult that is to do.” Avedon finally had another chance to photograph García Márquez in Mexico City, in 2004. This is the portrait that emerged from that second session. (Gabriel García Márquez in Mexico City on March 29, 2004)

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GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ (1927-2014)

POSTED BY JOSHUA ROTHMAN

Gabriel García Márquez, the winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature, died on Thursday, at the age of eighty-seven. The New Yorker was lucky enough to publish a number of his short stories, starting with “The Sea of Lost Time,” in 1974. In 1999, Jon Lee Anderson wrote a Profile of the novelist, called “The Power of García Márquez.” The article focussed on García Márquez’s unique role in Colombia, and in Latin America more generally:

“Gabo” is what García Márquez is called by nearly everyone in the Spanish-speaking world. That or el maestro, or, in Colombia, Nuestro Nobel, our Nobel Prize winner.

But, of course, García Márquez was special to the rest of us, too: few writers are so intimately associated with a literary style or an imaginative world. You can see everything that García Márquez published in The New Yorker here; his story “The Autumn of the Patriarch” (an excerpt from the novel of the same name) is available to everyone online. In “The Challenge,” from 2003, a Personal History about his early days as a writer, García Márquez recalls seeing his first story in print: “I read it in a single breath, hiding in my room, my heart pounding.” We’ve unlocked “The Challenge” as well.

Above: Gabriel García Márquez in Cartagena, Colombia; February 20, 1991. Photograph by Ulf Andersen/Getty.