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Todo el enigma del tropico latinoamericano se puede reducir a la fragancia de una guayaba podrida, afirma Gabriel Garcia Marquez durante su conversacion con Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza, su amigo desde la juventud, a quien el novelista colombiano descubre lo que piensa de la literatura, fama, politica, poder, mujeres...

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• Origenes(p. 9)
• Los suyos(p. 19)
• El oficio(p. 33)
• La formacion(p. 51)
• Lecturas e influencias(p. 61)
• La obra(p. 71)
• La espera(p. 83)
• Cien anos de soledad(p. 93)
• El otono del patriarca(p. 103)
• Hoy(p. 115)
• Politica(p. 123)
• Mujeres(p. 135)
• Supersticiones, manias, gustos(p. 145)
• Celebridad y celebridades(p. 155)

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Gabriel García Márquez was born in Aracataca, Colombia on March 6, 1927. After studying law and journalism at the National University of Colombia in Bogota, he became a journalist. In 1965, he left journalism, to devote himself to writing. His works included Leaf Storm, No One Writes to the Colonel, The Evil Hour, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera, The Autumn of the Patriarch, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, The General in His Labyrinth, Clandestine in Chile, and the memoir Living to Tell the Tale. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. He died on April 17, 2014 at the age of 87.

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