The Epistolary Destiny of García Márquez

Campos A.W. · Estudios de Literatura Colombiana (2024) · DOI: 10.17533/udea.elc.354060

Resumen

Through access to the Gabriel García Márquez correspondence between 1961 and 1971, it is now possible an understanding of what the author named the destiny of his “epistolary literature”: that of the demythologization of his work and his lifetime. Far from being dissappointing, the end result is an adjacent version of myths and stories told over the decades, a version in the double genre of testimony and nonfiction. Three myths are intended to be dispelled: that of the pauperized writer, One Hundred Years of Solitude as a spontaneous generation work and the self-proclaimed anti-intelectualism of the author.

Instituciones: Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos