2023-10-20 19:13:49
Berlin.— Admirers of the narrative of the Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez (1927-2014) are eagerly awaiting the launch of his unpublished work In August See You, on March 6, 2024.
The news was announced Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial during the Frankfurt Book Fair and coincides with the 97th birthday of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
During the announcement, Nuria Cabutí, CEO of the Editorial Group, highlighted the more than 50 years that have passed since it came out One hundred years of lonelinessand thanked Gabo’s children for allowing this literary piece to be published.
For her part, Maribel Luque, director of the Balcells Agency, referred to the book as “an exploration of femininity, sexuality and desire, absolutely captivating and modern, a magnificent finishing touch to the author’s legacy.”
It was also known that the cover of See you in August It has an illustration by the Spanish artist David de las Heras, in addition to the text being translated into other languages such as English, Italian, German and Arabic.
In April of this year, the Editorial announced that the publication of the novel will be, without a doubt, the most important publishing event of next year and will appear in all Spanish-speaking countries, except in Mexico, where it will arrive thanks to the publisher. Planet.
See you in August It was the fruit of a last effort to continue creating against all odds, expressed at that time the writer’s children, Rodrigo and Gonzalo García Barcha.
The work, they said, contains the most outstanding aspects of his career: his capacity for invention, the poetry of language, the captivating narrative, his understanding of human beings and his affection for their experiences and misadventures, especially in love.
Upon reading it once again, almost ten years after his death, we discovered that the text has many and very enjoyable merits, they said.
Books like Gabo were born from Gabo’s imagination. Big Mom’s funeral (1962), One hundred years of loneliness (1967) y A Time.news of a Death Foretold (1981).
These and other novels turned the author of the pen into one of the greatest exponents of magical realism.
Throughout his career he was the recipient of countless awards, including the Nobel Prize (1982), the Doctor Honoris Causa distinction from Columbia University (1971), the Rómulo Gallegos Prize (1972) and the Medal of the Legion of Honor of France ( 1981).
(Taken from PL)
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