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The Scandal of the Century and Other Writings

By: Gabriel García Márquez, Cristóbal Pera
Narrated by: Bernardo de Paula
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From one of the titans of 20th-century literature, collected here for the first time: a selection of his journalism from the late 1940s to the mid-1980s - work that he considered even more important to his legacy than his universally acclaimed works of fiction.

“I don’t want to be remembered for One Hundred Years of Solitude or for the Nobel Prize, but rather for my journalism,” Gabriel García Márquez said in the final years of his life. And while some of his journalistic writings have been made available over the years, this is the first volume to gather a representative selection from across the first four decades of his career - years during which he worked as a full-time, often muckraking, and controversial journalist, even as he penned the fiction that would bring him the Nobel Prize in 1982. Here are the first pieces he wrote while working for newspapers in the coastal Colombian cities of Cartagena and Barranquilla...his longer, more fiction-like reportage from Paris and Rome...his monthly columns for Spain’s El País. And while all the work points in style, wit, depth, and passion to his fiction, these 50 pieces are, more than anything, a revelation of the writer working at the profession he believed to be “the best in the world”.

©1981, 1982, 1983, 1974-1995, 1991-1999 Gabriel García Márquez and the heirs of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Translation © 2019 by the heirs of Gabriel García Márquez. Foreword © 2019 by Jon Lee Anderson (P)2019 Blackstone Publishing
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Editorial Review

Before Gabriel García Márquez dove into the world of fiction writing, he had a flourishing journalism career. He reported on Colombian news as well Spanish, French, and Italian names from his years in Europe. Listen for his iconic narrative voice in this anthology of articles, collected into one sensational audiobook.
Filled with the same unstoppable narrative impulse that later made its way into his literary pieces, Gabriel García Márquez's passion for journalism shines through even in the English translation of his journalistic pieces. This collection features consecutive installments of pieces, news reports, and headline after journalistic headline for any listener interested in the origin point of one of Latin America’s most notable voices.
García Márquez began developing his reporting skills early, writing pieces for his high school magazine as a young man. He continued to pen fantastic reports, witty columns, and original rhetoric through his law studies at college in the late 1940's, after he met his future wife, Mercedes Barcha, and well into his career as a fiction writer. While he was studying in Baranquilla, he even joined a group of fellow talented journalists and writing enthusiasts. Never one of the artistic elites, García Márquez instead brought an air of the everyman to his writing, which is just as evident in the translations as it was in its original Spanish.
Recognizing the latent narrative tension in several of Gabriel García Márquez's pieces, narrator Bernardo de Paula brings a feeling of immediacy to the evocative imagery and historical rigor of each piece. Even just a few minutes of listening provides enough evidence of the steady, but weighty way de Paula adds life to each piece. — Audible Latino Editor

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