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Living to Tell the Tale (original Spanish language title: Vivir para contarla) is the first volume of the autobiography of Gabriel García Márquez. The book was originally published in Spanish in 2002, with an English translation by Edith Grossman published in 2003. Living to Tell the Tale tells the story of García Márquez's life from 1927 through 1950, ending with his proposal to his wife. It focuses heavily on García Márquez's family, schooling, and early career as a journalist and short story writer, and includes references to numerous real-life events that ended up in his novels in one form or another, including the Banana massacre that appears prominently in One Hundred Years of Solitude and the friend of his whose life and death were the model for Chronicle of a Death Foretold. Editions

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Notable quotes

“...a lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth ...”
— translated from El Ontoño del Patriarica (1975) by Gregory Rabassa
“Santiago Nasar had often told me that the smell of closed-in flowers had an immediate relation to death for him.”
— Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981), trans. Gregory Rabassa [Ballantine, 1984, ], p. 47
“In the end all books are written for your friends. The problem after writing One Hundred Years of Solitude was that now I no longer know whom of the millions of readers I am writing for; this upsets and inhibits me. It's like a million eyes are looking at you and you don't really know what they think.”
— p. 322
“Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry.”
— p. 325
“I can't think of any one film that improved on a good novel, but I can think of many good films that came from very bad novels.”
— p. 338
“I was asked the other day if I would be interested in the Nobel Prize, but I think that for me it would be an absolute catastrophe. I would certainly be interested in deserving it, but to receive it would be terrible. It would just complicate even more the problems of fame. The only thing I really regret in life is not having a daughter.”
— p. 339

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

Overview

Living to Tell the Tale (original Spanish language title: Vivir para contarla) is the first volume of the autobiography of Gabriel García Márquez. The book was originally published in Spanish in 2002, with an English translation by Edith Grossman published in 2003. Living to Tell the Tale tells the story of García Márquez's life from 1927 through 1950, ending with his proposal to his wife. It focuses heavily on García Márquez's family, schooling, and early career as a journalist and short story writer, and includes references to numerous real-life events that ended up in his novels in one form or another, including the Banana massacre that appears prominently in One Hundred Years of Solitude and the friend of his whose life and death were the model for Chronicle of a Death Foretold. Editions

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Living to Tell the Tale (original Spanish language title: Vivir para contarla) is the first volume of the autobiography of Gabriel García Márquez.

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Notable quotes

“...a lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth ...”
— translated from El Ontoño del Patriarica (1975) by Gregory Rabassa
“Santiago Nasar had often told me that the smell of closed-in flowers had an immediate relation to death for him.”
— Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981), trans. Gregory Rabassa [Ballantine, 1984, ], p. 47
“In the end all books are written for your friends. The problem after writing One Hundred Years of Solitude was that now I no longer know whom of the millions of readers I am writing for; this upsets and inhibits me. It's like a million eyes are looking at you and you don't really know what they think.”
— p. 322
“Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry.”
— p. 325
“I can't think of any one film that improved on a good novel, but I can think of many good films that came from very bad novels.”
— p. 338
“I was asked the other day if I would be interested in the Nobel Prize, but I think that for me it would be an absolute catastrophe. I would certainly be interested in deserving it, but to receive it would be terrible. It would just complicate even more the problems of fame. The only thing I really regret in life is not having a daughter.”
— p. 339

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.