Scandal of the Century

From one of the titans of twentieth-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 Garc�a M�rquez 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 fictionlike reportage from Paris and Rome . . . his monthly columns for Spain's El Pa�s. And while all the work points in style, wit, depth, and passion to his fiction, these fifty pieces are, more than anything, a revelation of the writer working at the profession he believed to be "the best in the world."

De la unul dintre titanii literaturii din secolul al XX-lea, colectat aici pentru prima data: o selectie a jurnalismului sau de la sfarsitul anilor 1940 pana la mijlocul anilor 1980 - lucrare pe care a considerat-o chiar mai importanta pentru mostenirea sa decat lucrarile sale universal aclamate de fictiune. „Nu vreau sa fiu amintit pentru o suta de ani de singuratate sau pentru premiul Nobel, ci mai degraba pentru jurnalismul meu”, a spus Gabriel García Màrquez in ultimii ani ai vietii sale.