García Márquez’s genius revealed in the greatest exhibition about his life and work

The more complete exposure About the life and work of Gabriel García Márquez You can already visit in the national Library of Colombiato rediscover the legacy of the Nobel Prize for Literature of 1982 and its impact on world letters and thought.

The sample, which is entitled Everything is known: the story of the creation of Gabois composed of near 450 objects Among manuscripts of stories, novels and articles, personal letters, drawings of childhood and adolescence, passports, books, magazines, newspapers, photos, videos, songs, costumes, posters, maps, paintings and writing machines, among others.

Most of the objects They come from the writer’s personal archive, acquired by the Harry Ransom Center of the University of Texas in Austin (USA)but there will also be objects from the national library and collections of Colombian and abroad institutions.

“The thematic axis of the exhibition is very clear: Explain to visitors how Gabriel García Márquez has become a global writer“The Spanish historian and sociologist said in an interview Álvaro Santana Acuña, curator of the exhibition.

The sample, which will be Until August 2consists of seven sections that They cover the vital, intellectual and political trajectory of the writer Born in Aracataca (Magdalena), on March 6, 1927, and died in Mexico City, on April 17, 2014, at 87 years of age.

The first section, called ‘Origins’, collect the history of your first years In the house of his grandparents in Aracataca “that shaped his literary vocation”, as well as his high school studies in Zipaquirá, where he “read authors such as Julio Verne, Alejandro Dumas, Mark Twain, Rubén Darío and Miguel de Cervantes voraciously.

The second part, ‘a novel called Colombia’, Explore the years of your first stories; The violence of ‘El Bogotazo’, after the murder of the liberal leader Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, on April 9, 1948; His beginnings as a journalist; their friendship in Barranquilla with writers and artists from the Caribbean and the reading of other Anglo -Saxon authors.

“Explain that It involved bringing Colombia for the first time, files, manuscripts that had never been seen here And they help us understand how Gabo was actually in dialogue with writers of his time that marked him a lot, such as William Faulkner, such as Virginia Woolf, such as James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortázar himself, “Santana added.

In ‘Towards the world’, the third section, His departure to Europe is approached in 1955his years in Paris, where he wrote The colonel has no one to writehis return to Latin America and marriage with Mercedes Barcha, as well as his early years in Mexico City.

Section four, ‘Write loneliness’, is centered on One hundred years of lonelinessfirst first published in 1967 in Buenos Aires and that catapulted him to literary success.

“On One hundred years of loneliness We have practically everythingbecause the heart of the sample is One hundred years of loneliness. The main room, number four, is dedicated to the process of creation and production and publication of the novel, “said Santana, a researcher at the Harry Ransom Center.

‘Gabo’s carpentry’ is section five, which addresses the creation of other works such as The autumn of the patriarch, chronicle of an announced death, love in the times of cholera y The general in his labyrinthprocess that considered a carpentry job, as he said in an interview in 1981 to The Paris Review.

Then there is ‘a committed writer’, sixth unit dedicated to their participation in various political and cultural matters; their friendship with leaders such as Fidel Castro, Bill Clinton, Mikhail Gorbachev or Francois Mitterrand; The return to journalism in Colombia, his passion for cinema and creation in Cartagena of the Foundation for the New Ibero -American Journalism that later became the Gabo Foundation.

Close the exhibition Section seven, ‘The global writer’, about his consecration upon receiving the Nobel, where he pronounced his famous acceptance speech, ‘The loneliness of Latin America’.

This section includes congratulatory messages received from all over the world, from presidents to housewives, artists, unions and even children on Cali street who barely knew how to read and write.

“We the street boys know that the Nobel Prize is a very important thing and as telo ace (sic) won, We want you to know we are very happy And in our house we are partying. On October 31, Children’s Day (sic) a carrosa (sic) that represents temple (sic) years of solitude “, reads in a handwritten letter of 1982.