Camino a Macondo / The Road to Macondo

«...lo que hay entre La hojarasca y Cien aos de soledad son unos quince aos de fastidiarse mucho, de vivir mucho y de estar pendiente de esto todos los das, tratando de ver cmo eran las cosas. Gabriel Garca Mrquez

Garca Mrquez sostuvo en diversas oportunidades que para escribir un libro primero haba que aprender a escribirlo y, solo entonces, enfrentarse a la mquina de escribir. A l le tom casi veinte aos "vivir" en Macondo, para aprender a escribir ese portento de la literatura de todos los tiempos que es Cien aos de soledad. Esta antologa, realizada con el nimo de rastrear la andadura del escritor, compila todos los textos publicados en los que ese universo mtico fue tomando forma. Desde sus apuntes para una novela de 1950 y primeros relatos, hasta La hojarasca, El coronel no tiene quien le escriba y La mala hora en 1966, en lo que supone la efervescente antesala a la creacin de Cien aos de soledad.

Bienvenido, lector, a ste Camino a Macondo.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

A fascinating literary journey through the fictions that helped build the mythical space of One Hundred Years of Solitude.

"...between Leaf Storm and One Hundred Years of Solitude there are about fifteen years of hard work, hard living, and keeping tabs on it every day, trying to see how things were." --Gabriel Garca Mrquez

On several occasions, Garca Mrquez stated that to write a book first you must learn how to write it, and only then could you face the typewriter. He "lived" almost twenty years in Macondo before he could write the all-time literary marvel that is One Hundred Years of Solitude. This anthology, compiled in an effort to track the writer's path, includes each published work where the mythical universe slowly took shape, from his notes for a 1950 novel and his first short stories, to Leaf Storm, No One Writes to the Colonel, and Evil Hour in 1966, what was apparently the prelude to creating One Hundred Years of Solitude.

Welcome, reader, to The Road to Macondo.