Surprise from Marquez!
Imagine my surprise when a woman in front of me at the bookstore today went rushing to the cashier clutching a book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Now this in itself is not surprising: he is a fine author and heartily deserves this sort of treatment. No, what was surprising was that I didn’t recognize the title. Now, granted, I live in Paris, so everything’s in French (duh!) but I thought I knew all the French titles for his books… I rushed over to the table where I’d seen her pick it up and there it was “Mémoire de mes putains tristes” - A NEW NOVEL!!! I thought he was working on the second installment of his memoirs?!? The killer is– (wait for it!) –it comes out in English in October 2005. According to my fingers, that’s five months away…
Aaaaarg!!!
I wonder how Marquez reads in French?
(Just so you know for your to buy list, the title is “Memories of My Melancholy Whores” and it is being furiously translated–as I speak–by Edith Grossman.)
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