A book by a longtime friend of the Colombian legend includes never-before-released letters from when Garcia Marquez was writing his epic One Hundred Years of Solitude.
In his early journalistic writings, the Colombian novelist Gabriel García Márquez showed he had an eye for factual details, in which he found the absurdity and magic that would in time be the stuff and style of his fiction.
Even if you don t judge him South America s greatest writer, there s no denying that his life lived with joy and principle is the stuff of modern legend for a country, and continent.