Tuesday 6 May 2008
Today, I have a very special treat for all the readers out there. This is the typewriter that Gabriel García Márquez used to write A Hundred Years of Solitude. (Which is generally agreed to be the greatest novel in South American literature ever, as well as one of the best books in modern literature.)
We visited Aracataca today, which is Gabo's hometown, and also the model for Macondo, the town in A Hundred Years of Solitude. It's a sleepy small town, where the siesta is long, where things take a while to get done, where outsiders are still a curiosity. At the moment there isn't even a museum to the man considered the number one South American novelist of all time, although the post office does have this typewriter and a lot of newspaper clippings about him.
I don't know - to most of you, this probably isn't all that impressive, but I have been a huge fan of his since reading Love in the Time of Cholera in high school. It was one of the first great novels that I read and was completely sucked in by, and is still my favorite love story.
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