Although professions such as writers and artists have been given too many romanticized imaginations, it seems that the work they are engaged in determines that they must have some extraordinary behavior. However, over the years, from ordinary readers to book nerds, from media reporters to writers themselves, there have been a large number of people who have supplemented all kinds of strange peripheral stories and talked about them tirelessly. The reason is actually quite simple – just because the stories sound interesting.
"Don't be so serious" – that's why we tried to update this column. For these stories, you don't have to take it too seriously or just rely on it to judge something, take it easy, glance at it in your spare time, and smile.
In this issue of the story, we talk about the writer Alvaro Mutis who does nothing but write novels.
We always inevitably make mistakes in our work every day, and many people will fall into a depressed mood, wondering if they can't do anything well, coupled with the accusations or ridicule of leaders and colleagues, many times will make the state of work become trembling. However, I believe that no matter how many lou you have ever stabbed at work, it is because of ability or careless negligence, compared to the next writer, it is nothing.
Alvaro Mutis, a Colombian writer, is not known to many people in the country who have heard his name. A more familiar introduction method - García Márquez's "One Hundred Years of Solitude" You must have heard of it, Márquez wrote "One Hundred Years of Solitude" inspired by Pedro Paramo, and the person who recommended this masterpiece to Márquez was Mutis. He was a close friend of Márquez, who often communicated with him in the course of writing novels. In Colombia, he is a mysterious and well-known writer of the past.
But he really did everything outrageously except write novels. (In fact, his novel style is also quite outrageous)
He first became a national radio anchor at the age of 18, and as a result, he talked nonsense during the broadcast of the program, and was mistaken by a man for an open flirt with his wife on the radio, so angry that he took a gun to ambush him, but fortunately escaped the disaster.
After that, he participated in an official event at the Presidential Palace. The rest of this story may make you feel the headache of repeating names in Spanish novels.
Colombia has had two Presidents of Yellas.
One is Carlos Lleras Restrepo and the other is Alberto Lleras Camargo, both of whom have served in very close terms, both around the 1960s. Mutis then confused the names of the two presidents, and he yelled at the event upside down, one moment the name of the former president, the other the name of the current president.
It's not strange to screw up the activity like this and lose your job.
But it wasn't over, and his next mistakes were even more outrageous. Mutis later took on the role of a public relations improvement officer, one day going to host a charity event. I don't know what he was watching all day, but originally, a charity propaganda movie should have been played on the spot, and the content was a documentary on the rescue of orphans. As a result, Mutis took the wrong video and played a film of soldiers and nuns around directly on the scene.
Later, he became the head of public relations of the airline, and the airline finally closed its doors because of the plane crash. To tell the truth, this can only be said that Mutis's luck is too bad, and it has nothing to do with his ability.
Alvaro Mutis
He also served as the head of the multinational Esso Oil, which eventually ended up wanted by the multinational. The reason is that he embezzled a lot of public funds. Mutis's use of embezzling the money is also hilarious, not for his own use, but for "any artist in need." In 1959, he was arrested by Interpol in Mexico and served 15 months in prison.
But these things may be different in other words. See what Márquez wrote:
"No writer I know cares about others as much as he does, and is especially willing to promote younger generations. He incited young people to disobey their father's orders, to devote themselves to poetry, to poison them with forbidden books, to confuse them with clever tongues, to encourage them to roam the world, convinced that to be a poet in this world would not starve to death. ”
Later, Mutis finally calmed down and began to write novels. Although he is not well known in China, he has actually achieved a considerable degree of literary achievement.
However, in the matter of writing novels, he was also pit by the "plastic brother" Márquez. It's not a big deal, but when Márquez writes "One Hundred Years of Solitude", he is always asked what he has been writing lately, and in order to prevaricate them, Márquez will make up another irrelevant story and tell them that this is what he is writing.
Unfortunately, Mutis often came to ask Márquez.
Not only did he believe it, but he was also moved by the story that Márquez had made up, praised Márquez's inspiration, and told the fake story to other friends with great interest—until the day "One Hundred Years of Solitude" was finally published, Mutis was dumbfounded, and the whole book had nothing to do with the story that Márquez told, and he angrily called Márquez and scolded him wildly, saying that the story told to him by the other party was not such a thing, and that he could not be a man in front of his friends.
In addition to adding another outrageous color to Mutis's life, another point may be confirmed by the fact that Márquez's words about writing novels are best not to be believed.
Álvaro Mutis (left) with García Márquez
Text/Miyako
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