In 1966, Gabriel García Márquez he wrote the manuscript for One Hundred Years of Solitude in an apartment in Mexico City without foreseeing that his work would become the most influential in 50th century Latin American literature. XNUMX years after its publication, the magical realism of the story of the Buendía and the town of Macondo, reflections of the history and life of South America, remains latent among readers and writers. Proof of this are the many events that The universities of Madrid celebrate these days on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of One Hundred Years of Solitude?
Yellow butterflies in Madrid
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On May 30, 1967, One Hundred Years of Solitude was published in Buenos Aires, a masterpiece by Gabriel García Márquez whose success caught its editors and an author who had gone through the hardships of a manuscript by surprise, beforehandDamn: wet leaves, little money in the pockets and a lot of crying between chapter and chapter; His wife, Mercedes Barcha, knew it well. Luckily, 50 years later that universe of yellow butterflies and family intrigues is still more latent than ever, and of course, the opportunity well deserves more than one event in honor of the work and life of Gabo, who died in April 2014.
In regards to our country, the Rey Juan Carlos University of Madrid teaches from today until the 7th One Hundred Years of Solitude: A Caravan of Stories, a course organized by the publishing house Libros.com, the La Caixa Banking Foundation and the Foundation for a New Ibero-American Journalism (FNPI). Specifically, it is the first event managed by the NPI, a luxury for Spanish students and, specifically, for some journalists who will appreciate knowing that more "academic" side of the Nobel Prize, whose journalistic base gave us works such as Story of a castaway.
Jaime Abello, director of the FNPIGabo's personal friend and conductor of the course knows a lot about this facet, so he has not hesitated to count on the director of the URJC / El Mundo Master's Degree in Investigative Journalism and Data, Antonio Rubio, and other invited journalists such as Antonio Lucas, Manuel Jabois, Juan Cruz, Jorge Fabricio Hernández O Daniel Samper at the time of conducting different conferences that will address from the literary adventures of the author in our country to the Latin American boom of the 60s.
In parallel form, Mario Vargas Llosa also wanted to honor Gabriel García Márquez (and his always controversial relationship) with some conferences that the Peruvian-Spanish author has been giving in El Escorial through the Complutense University of Madrid from June 26 to July 21.
Do we cheer up?