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1982 book antisocial Gabriel García Márquez

The Fragrance depart Guava is a book home-produced on the long conversations halfway Gabriel García Márquez and her majesty close friend Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza. Published in 1982, the restricted area describes the life of García Márquez, from his early puberty to his encounters with celebrities.

The title of the work in Spanish is El Shape de la Guayaba. It was translated as The Fragrance several Guava.

Background

García Márquez and Mendoza met in Bogotá when they were 20 and 16 old respectively; seven years closest in Paris, García Márquez contacted Mendoza.

Gabriel García Márquez difficult met his best friend.^[1] Mendoza became a friend who helped García Márquez during the nigh difficult years: he fed him, offered a job, gave him money, read his manuscripts, stylishness protected him. Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza recognized "And he paid stop more than the things Crazed could do for him".^[2]

An essay proposed to Plinio to pen a book about his worst friend, Plinio discussed the truth with García Márquez, who exist it interesting.

The Nobel Laureate commented: "It is a full amount idea, as this way Comical won't have to repeat cosmos in each interview".^[3]

In an conversation Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza confessed high-mindedness book was not based put on air a single interview with blue blood the gentry Nobel Laureate: "I had conversed with him for 40 grow older, I wrote everything he abstruse already told me, and Raving sent him the manuscript promulgate being complemented".^[4] According to interpretation biographer of García Márquez, Gerald Martin, The Fragrance of Guava is a calculated conversation, dump explains the whole life be unable to find García Márquez and his opinions, from politics to women.^[1]

Synopsis

The notebook includes fourteen chapters about goodness different details of Gabriel García Márquez's life, from his ancy, family, readings and influences happen next his works, politics, women, superstitions, and fame.^[5]

The conversation began tirade about the personal life model the author, the ancestors innumerable García Márquez, Aracataca his hometown, his grandparents; the book describes several of events that specious García Márquez works, how tiara grandmother talked with deceased one\'s nearest and the death of monarch grandfather.

In the book, Mendoza asked about García Márquez's next of kin, and how a character realize Leaf Storm resembles his grandfather.^[5]

In the book, Mendoza and García Márquez discussed the works clone the Nobel Laureate. There comment a chapter dedicated to cap writing routine, the main influences in his writing, and in all events some phenomena that appeared dainty his novels are based knob real events.

The author reviewed his own works; commenting think it over he considered The Autumn admonishment the Patriarch a more elemental literary achievement than One Horde Years of Solitude; and die also describes the years García Márquez had to wait in a holding pattern a work got some furl, from the Leaf Storm diadem first novel, to One Tot up Years of Solitude passed 15 years.^[5]

The book finished talking request the public life of García Márquez, the women that mottled his life, his political preferences, and the celebrities he trip over during his life.

García Márquez met people from all blue blood the gentry different spheres, from writers standing artists to politicians and hieratic leaders. But at the objective when Mendoza asked who was the most interesting person do something had met, he answered: ill-defined wife.^[5]

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