Gabriel Garcia Marquez by Gerald Martin

Author:Gerald Martin [Martin, Gerald]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Retail, Literary Studies, Columbia, Biography, Latin America
ISBN: 9780307272003
Amazon: B001NLL1QM
Goodreads: 7033925
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2008-01-01T15:00:00+00:00

8 / Back to Bogotá: The Ace Reporter (1954–1955)

1. Interviews with Alvaro Mutis, Mexico City, 1992, 1994. For the purposes of this chapter I also talked with José Salgar (Bogotá, 1991; Cartagena, 2007), Germán Arciniegas (Bogotá, 1991), Juan Gustavo Cobo Borda (Bogotá, 1991), Ana María Busquets de Cano (Bogotá, 1991), Alfonso and Fernando Cano (Bogotá, 1993), Alvaro Castaño (Bogotá, 1991, 1998 and 2007), Nancy Vicens (Mexico City, 1994), José Font Castro (Madrid, 1997), and Jacques Gilard (Toulouse, 1999, 2004), among many others. In 1993 Patricia Castaño guided me on an expert tour of all the GGM-related sites in central Bogotá.

2. See Alfredo Barnechea and José Miguel Oviedo, “La historia como estética” (interview, Mexico 1974), reproduced in Alvaro Mutis, Poesía y prosa (Bogotá, Instituto Colombiano de Cultura, 1982), pp. 576–97 (p. 584).

3. Living to Tell the Tale, p. 439.

4. Oscar Alarcón, El Espectador, 24 October 1982, p. 2A. I interviewed Oscar Alar-cón, a cousin from Santa Marta whom GGM introduced into El Espectador, in 2007.

5. From my interview with Salgar, 1991.

6. “La reina sola,” El Espectador, 18 February 1954.

7. Gilard, ed., Entre cachacos 1, pp. 16–17. Gilard’s work is again indispensable for this period.

8. See Sorela, El otro García Mdrquez, p. 88. Sorela, a onetime journalist with Spain’s El País, has a number of illuminating insights into GGM’s journalism.

9. Gilard, ed., Entre cachacos I, is particularly severe on GGM’s film criticism.

10. Such consistency, reliability and—yes—humanity is what connects him so irresistibly to his immortal precursor, Cervantes.

11. Whereas he was more than happy to do so indirectly, much later in life, through film and journalism “workshops.”

12. Living to Tell the Tale, p. 450. See also José Font Castro, “Gabo, 70 años: ‘No quiero homenajes póstumos en vida,’” El Tiempo, 23 February 1997, for reminiscences of this period.

13. Interviews with Nancy Vicens, Mexico City, 1994 and 1997; on Luis Vicens, see E. García Riera, El cine es mejor que la vida (Mexico, Cal y Arena, 1990), pp. 50–53.

14. Quoted by Fiorillo, La Cueva, p. 262.

15. See Diego León Giraldo, “La increíble y triste historia de GGM y la cine-matografía desalmada,” El Tiempo, Lecturas Dominicales, 15 December 1982, both on La langosta azul and on his cinema criticism in Barranquilla and Bogotá. My friend Gustavo Adolfo Ramírez Ariza has pointed out that GGM’s costeño friends made—even more—frequent visits to Bogotá.

16. Living to Tell the Tale, pp. 463–5.

17. Gilard, ed., Entre cachacos 1, pp. 52–3.

18. GGM, “Hace sesenta años comenzó la tragedia,” El Espectador, 2 August 1954.

19. Published on 2, 3 and 4 August 1954 respectively.

20. GGM recalls this trip to “Urabá” in “Seamos machos: hablemos del miedo al avión,” El Espectador, 26 October 1980. One of his most detailed accounts of his manipulations, however, is in Germán Castro Caycedo, “‘Gabo’ cuenta la novela de su vida. 4,” El Espectador, 23 March 1977. See also Living to Tell the Tale, pp. 444–50. Daniel Samper, “GGM se dedicará a la música,” 1968, in Rentería, pp. 21–7, gives a particularly outrageous version of this anecdote: p. 26, “Y así fue como se salvó al Chocó.

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