Riding the Yellow Trolley Car by William Kennedy

Author:William Kennedy
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781504042109
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2016-10-06T04:00:00+00:00

* When I wrote this review for the National Observer it carried the headline “All of Life, Sense and Nonsense/ Fills an Argentine’s Daring Fable.” The only biographical information I had on García Márquez was from the book’s jacket copy, which identified him generically as a Latin American writer. Why no mention was made of his Colombian nationality I don’t know. Perhaps it was an effort to internationalize him as the author of the Great Latin American Novel, which is what he became with the publication of this book. The one identifying element in the book was its copyright note: “The book was first published in Argentina in 1967 by Editorial Sudamericana, S. A., Buenos Aires, under the title Cien Años de Soledad.” And so I called García Márquez an Argentine in print. Two years later I went to Barcelona and interviewed him, in part to discover who he was, which was even then an irrationally well-kept secret; and the story, The Yellow Trolley Car in Barcelona, became the first biographical report on him in both the United States and England. When we talked in Barcelona I told García Márquez about my goof and he said: “Ah, so you’re the one.”

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