García Márquez's new book takes
'I am not here to make a speech' features the 22 most important speeches of Nobel
If there is something that Gabriel García Márquez been allergic by nature, is to the speeches. This has repeated his friends, on many occasions, and this has been confirmed in several of the texts he has delivered throughout his public life.
example is the fragment of the parting words that the Colombian Nobel Prize winner spoke in 1944, his fellow Zipaquirá school: "What am I perched on this perch of honor, I've always considered the speeches as the most terrifying of human commitments?".
precisely this curious text is part of the twenty that were collected by the same Gabo in working with Cristóbal Pera, editor of Random House Mondadori, for the book 'I am not here to make a speech ', to be published in Spain and Latin America on October 29 .
Among the anecdotes of what was the work of collection of texts, which was taken About a year and a half, Pera told TIME that when they found that speech, whence also came the title of the book, "Gabo was surprised to see him because he did not remember."
"He has been in the review process, no changes were made, as was obvious as he made clear he did not want to touch them up really, because what he said once and stay, especially when they were texts they were written to be read in public, "says the editor, adding that the book will be about 160 pages.
addition 'Loneliness in Latin America', Gabo speech delivered the day he received the Nobel, the book includes other revealing more of his obsessions: "As I started writing ',' Toast to the poetry ',' Journalism: the best job in the world 'and the controversial speech the retirement of the spelling, 'bottle into the sea to the god of words. "
Also, present many of the concerns that Garcia Marquez has made explicit as a citizen, as the danger of nuclear proliferation ("The cataclysm of Damocles'), the ecological disaster (" An American ecological alliance America ') and the future of youth and education in Latin America.
Gabo editor said that the work he enjoyed most was to find the titles to several of the speeches did not, peering curious phrases in the text.
Pera also told this newspaper that the order itself explicitly Gabo, became an issue that was not academic and that could be read as a series of articles.
On the cover, the editor noted that "evokes a bit of hosting those banners that some people can put on when someone will make a speech and is half the detail of the parrot, which Gabo makes it very funny because it's sort of wink and a joke ".
As reported by the editorial, from Spain," the reading of these texts, scattered or forgotten, has García Márquez led to remark: 'reading these speeches rediscover how I've changed and evolved as a writer'. "
Posted October 5, 2010 by
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