García Márquez was a representative of Latin American magic realist literature and one of the most influential writers of the 20th century.
He wrote nearly twenty works in his lifetime, of which "One Hundred Years of Solitude", "Love in the Time of Cholera" and "Memoirs of a Bitter Prostitute" became his famous works.
His works were so attractive and rendered that they became the most appreciated works of the people at that time. In particular, his masterpiece "One Hundred Years of Solitude" is loved and sought after by people all over the world.
In 1982, García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude won the Nobel Prize in Literature. It can be said that "One Hundred Years of Solitude" is a masterpiece of epic magic realism.
But you may not know that in 2010, China had just acquired the copyright to the book, and the book "One Hundred Years of Solitude" had become popular in the 1970s and 1980s, and it has been popular until today.
Márquez once made a harsh statement: "I swear that I will not authorize China to publish my works for 150 years after my death, especially "One Hundred Years of Solitude".
Why?
It was 1990 when Gabriel Márquez was invited to China, his first visit to China. In his memory, China is an oriental country with mysterious legends such as "Oriental Dragon", "Suzaku", "Cowherd Weaver Girl" and so on. Therefore, he is full of expectations for this trip to China.
Of course Gabriel Márquez understands that these are nothing more than myths, and he is actually more curious about what China really looks like. He came to Beijing and Shanghai, which were already the two most prosperous cities in China at that time, and he looked at the ox carts on the street, the vendors selling sugar people and sugar gourds, and felt very novel, especially when he also watched "shadow puppetry", which made him marvel.
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China's characteristic culture made Gabriel Márquez dazzled, but just when he went to visit the bookstore with satisfaction, the scene in front of him made his perception of China to the extreme--only to see the huge bookstore full of "One Hundred Years of Solitude", but Gabriel Márquez did not sell the copyright to China.
Obviously, the dozens of copies of One Hundred Years of Solitude in front of Gabriel Márquez are all "pirated books." He even found several copies of the paper printed "One Hundred Years of Solitude" that had been yellowed, which was obviously inferior paper. Not only was the work printed without the consent of the author himself, but even inferior paper was used to save costs, which was obviously disrespectful to the author.
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Gabriel Márquez only felt his own efforts being ruthlessly trampled. A moment of disappointment and anger enveloped him, and he immediately raised his hand and swore that for 150 years after his death, he would not authorize Any of his works to be published in China, especially "One Hundred Years of Solitude".
Since then, more than 100 publishing houses in China have applied for copyright to Márquez himself and the Colombian Embassy in China, but they have not waited for news.
Until 2008, Chen Mingjun, the editor-in-chief of the new classic culture, wrote a letter to Márquez, which impressed Márquez.
The letter reads: Just as you shouted across the street in Paris, "Master! "As a tribute to your idol, Hemingway, we are shouting 'Maestro' across the Pacific Ocean. We believe that if you heard it, you would wave your hand like Hemingway and shout, "Hello, friend!" ”
Perhaps, Chen Mingjun's words reminded Márquez of himself, and in 2010, he finally officially authorized to the China Publishing House.
It can be said that Márquez reneged on his promise, he did not authorize China to publish his works for 150 years after his death, and famous works such as "One Hundred Years of Solitude" were not only officially published in China, but also very popular.
Mo Yan once said at the press conference: "In 1984, I first read "One Hundred Years of Solitude" and felt shocked, followed by regret, and the original novel can also be written in this way. At that time, Mo Yan did not know that this was a pirated copy of "One Hundred Years of Solitude", and did not dare to imagine how remarkable the original version of "One Hundred Years of Solitude" was.
On the Internet, many people's evaluation of this book is: If you can only read one book in this lifetime, then I choose "One Hundred Years of Solitude".
One Hundred Years of Solitude, which chronicles seven generations of the Buendia family and the centuries-old rise and fall of the Caribbean coastal town of Macondo, reflects a century of Latin America's turbulent history.
This is a very romantic book without love. Everyone is using their own unique methods to resist loneliness, whether it is to participate in revolutions, whether it is to do manual work repeatedly, whether it is to indulge in lust, to read and translate, which includes all the ways in which human beings can resist loneliness.
A hundred years of loneliness tells us that loneliness is a part of everyone's body, and what you have to do is not to get rid of it, but to live in peace with it, only then will you understand that you actually have nothing, and you are no longer afraid of losing.
After reading this book, you will feel that too many of our impetuous expectations are just fleeting illusions, only loneliness is eternal, but there is peace and calm.
Márquez used his rich imagination and experience to let us see that after the ultimate loneliness, we no longer cared for ourselves because of our own helplessness, and let us cherish life more after seeing the boundary between life and death.
The book says that all the brilliance in life will eventually need to be repaid by loneliness, and life will eventually be a single trip, before loneliness is confusion, and after loneliness is growth.
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