Gabriel Garcia Marquez

[Xamonas Chegwe]

...has announced his retirement. This is a great loss to the world of writing.

BBC Story (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4655328.stm)

I thought people might like to know. How about considering '100 years of solitude' for a future book club read?

[Jay]

I'm not 100% sure but I think he's made it into this year's authors for the book club and as we've already read Love In The Time Of Cholera, it might have a good chance of winning the poll :)

[Anna Seis]

Well, I have readed some excerpts of the last Gabo's novel, whose title I can't write without become censorable (it's unnofficial?) and I think he deserves to take a rest. García Marquez is an incomparable writer and works with language in a very distinct style, but I can't decide to read that novel because I feel that's like an exhibition of skillfulness but without wonder. I love his work; I can't read "El coronel Aureliano Buendía promovió treinta y dos levantamientos armados y los perdió todos..." (when the narrator tells about the Colonel Aureliano Buendìa's thirty two defeats and about his sons) without a deep emotion.
I didn't know about his health's condition. I hope he will win the fight and perhaps, one day he'll marvel us again...
Did someone read Pedro Pàramo? When G. M. moved to Mexico, a friend of him, Alvaro Mutis (Aureliano Babilonia's friend in Hundred years...) gave him that Juan Rulfo's novel and G.M. was fascinated. Pedro Pàramo is Rulfo's masterpiece, he worked in it for years; it's a brief, poetic and unique book.

[Gabo9]

Macondo will be dearily missed. I read recently that a new edition of "100 Years of solitude" Will be published with editions coming both from Gabriel and Mario Vargas Llosa a contemporary and "realist" of the same genre.