A.C.

AFTER CIEN AÑOS DE SOLEDAD

This has all gone to hell. An average of three lizards fall in on me every day, from all over Latin America, and so after the summer we’ll move to a secret apartment. They all come to tell me about their connection to the anguish of the world, and then they leave me 800-page originals. If this is glory, I prefer to enjoy it when I’m a statue.

Gabriel García Márquez, in a letter to Alfonso
Fuenmayor from Barcelona

Gabo and Fuentemayor in Barcelona.