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Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel García Márquez

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De viaje por Europa del Este

De viaje por Europa del Este / Travelling in Eastern Europe

Non-fiction , 1978

Literatura Random House

Chronicle Nobel Prize

“García Márquez, a formidable journalist as well as a great writer, writes all about that political environment with precision and a brutal handling of small details, while also becoming a witness to an impossible world.” (Guillermo Altares, El País)

“With that torrential, direct and beautiful style that characterises his prose, and the wit of a restless journalist, García Márquez pours his impressions into a book that reads as if the reader were the one accompanying the writer.” (Natalio Blanco, Esquire)

“A dazzling account in which admiration for socialism mixes with criticism of a Kafkaesque bureaucracy and the capture of a climate of incipient absurdity.” (Martín Pérez, Página 12)

 

De viaje por Europa del Este is a first-hand account of young García Márquez’s journey through the Socialist Bloc countries in the 1950s, right after Soviet troops crushed the Hungarian revolution in 1956. Along with comments from his travelling companions, its pages contain a keen analysis, not without irony, of the social and political developments of that period. This journey of contrasts starts in East Berlin and continues through Czechoslovakia, Poland and Hungary all the way to Moscow. With the author’s unsurpassed lucidity, it provides a nuanced account of everyday life in a system with an expiration date, where every detail reveals the ambivalent face of true socialism.

 

Written and published in instalments during the same period as his legendary The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor, this work is another priceless example of Gabo’s narrative mastery. It reveals his deepest vocation and hallmark: the pleasure of telling a good story.

Novel

En agosto nos vemos, 2024
Memoria de mis putas tristes, 2004
Del amor y otros demonios, 1994
El general en su laberinto, 1989
El amor en los tiempos del cólera, 1985
Crónica de una muerte anunciada, 1981
El otoño del patriarca, 1975
Relato de un náufrago, 1970
Cien años de soledad, 1967
La mala hora, 1962
El coronel no tiene quien le escriba, 1961
La hojarasca, 1954

Short stories and novellas

Camino a Macondo, 2020
Todos los cuentos, 1996
Doce cuentos peregrinos, 1992
El rastro de tu sangre en la nieve, 1976
El verano feliz de la señora Forbes, 1976
La increíble y triste historia de la Cándida Eréndira y de su abuela desalmada, 1972
Los funerales de la Mamá Grande, 1962
Ojos de perro azul, 1947

Theatre

Diatriba de amor contra un hombre sentado, 1987

Non-fiction

Yo no vengo a decir un discurso, 2010
Noticia de un secuestro, 1996
La aventura de Miguel Littín, clandestino en Chile, 1986
De viaje por Europa del Este, 1978

Illustrated Book

El amor en los tiempos del cólera (Edición ilustrada), 2019
Cuentos (Ilustrados por Carme Solé Vendrell), 2018
Cien años de soledad (Edición ilustrada), 1967

Biography / Memoirs

Vivir para contarla, 2002

Journalistic Work

El escándalo del siglo, 2018
Por la libre (1974-1995), 1999
Notas de prensa (1980-1984), 1991
Primeros reportajes, 1990
De Europa y América (1955-1960), 1983
Entre cachacos (1954-1955), 1982
Textos costeños (1948-1952), 1981
Crónicas y reportajes, 1976
Cuando era feliz e indocumentado, 1973

Letters

Las cartas del Boom (con Julio Cortázar, Carlos Fuentes y Mario Vargas Llosa), 2023

Other genres

La bendita manía de contar, 1998
Me alquilo para soñar, 1996
Cómo se cuenta un cuento, 1995
El cataclismo de Damocles, 1986
El olor de la guayaba, 1982
Viva Sandino, 1982
Chile, el golpe y los gringos, 1974
Guiones de cine Guiones de cine,