Gabo seemed to be enjoying the conversation with a young journalist who wanted to be a writer. And you get the right answers in those silent landscapes and innerscapes.” The time preserved in their estates can be a good aid to understand them first hand. You will find a spectral presence of the author in their familiar settings – and works left for the posterity. You will find a spectral presence of the author in their familiar settings…” Visualize your sense of Marquez construct your version of the author, not the hearsay or as per the folklore or second-hand view.” Feel the silence there, the smells, sounds, views – that is what he told me. He also directed me, as an option, to visit your home. “This is how you talk to Poe or Virgil or Cervantes!” Pay attention-and you will be able to listen!” Discover and listen to a voice transmitted to you across the long gulf. Find the entry point there and enter that space. Engage with the texts where they hover as ghosts. “I told my eccentric editor: how can I talk to a dead author?” The young man answered: “I was asked by the editor of the Bogota Journals to do a literary interview, after a rejection by The New Yorker editor resurfaced here, in 2022.”

His deeply-lined face furrowed further, and moustache quivered – earth burnt by the sun! thought the visitor, looking at the most-photographed face. Gabo looked at the white rug for a long time as if lost in some other place. How could you manage that as a young and obscure writer, not sure of the success of a dense novel, now hailed as one of the world-altering books?” “Writing and rejection…rejection or writing.

“How did you manage to quit that addiction? Tough, is it not?” Difficult to quit the habit but I managed somehow.” “You smoked 60 cigarettes, while writing this epic?” Sometimes naming can do a lot…it can change you forever and make you think like the original.” Mother did that by naming me after that iconic patriarch. Suddenly Juan Arcadio Buendia was a household name and part of our legacy to be reclaimed by succeeding generations. Solitude single-handedly changed the existing landscape and made the world “see” Latin America and human reality differently. “They influence our daily lives, practices and thoughts. “Certain works of imagination become real for you in most striking ways,” said Juan. “Your name is interesting!” Gabo said, sitting in the study of his Spanish Colonial-style house in Mexico City. Somebody, after me, will take another detour…the pathway remains same, a bit twisted but steady, more or less.” “I took a detour guided by my predecessors. Writing is a long tradition with its summits and valleys, a long line…” Overawed by the solid presence of the author before him. Intimate to a writer! Besides that, the readers complete the circle of the writer.

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