It has been the news these days: Gabriel García Márquez He is still alive in his stories and his thousands of followers are congratulations because a new unpublished novel for 2024. It is entitled See you in August and will see the light next year coinciding with the 10th anniversary of death of the Colombian Nobel Prize for Literature. It will be hand in hand with the Literature seal Random House, which will output it simultaneously in paper, ebook y audiobook and, of course, translated into the main languages of the world.
Unpublished novel by Gabriel García Márquez
Random House will release it in all Spanish-speaking countries except Mexico and considers the fact as "the most important editorial event of the coming year." It will certainly be for writer lovers. Have been his sons, Rodrigo and Gonzalo García Barcha, those who have told that See you in August was the result of great effort from his father to continue writing despite all the difficulties and in the worst moments, as a way to combat and overcome them.
When they reread it almost ten years after his death, they discovered that the text had many merits and potential, with the characteristics of the rest of his work intact, such as «the capacity for invention, the poetry of language, the captivating narrative, his understanding of the human being and his affection for his experiences and misadventuresespecially in love."
In a broader development of the story, Anna Magdalene Bach he has complied punctually with the visit to his mother's grave, to whom he brings a bouquet of gladioli and takes the opportunity to tell her the family news during 28 years and every 16 August. Since then, he has always stayed in the same room in the same hotel. Then one night of one of those days she meets a man in the hotel bar.
Expectation
And it's been years since readers expected Let this work see the light. Until recently, the manuscript was found, like all his personal files, in the Harry Ramson Center (in Austin, Texas). Already in 2008 García Márquez spoke of this fictional story and assured that he was ending it. With its publication it is now considered that, with See you in August the cycle that the writer began in 1985 with Love in the Time of Cholera, Love and Other Demons o Memory of my sad whores, which was published 20 years ago now.
Finally, let us remember that García Márquez is the most translated Spanish-language writer in the XNUMXst century, more than Miguel de Cervantes, as revealed by the Cervantes Institute.