Cien Años de Soledad [One Hundred Years of Solitude]
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Buenos Aires: Editorial Sudamericana, 1967. Fine. Editorial Sudamericana | Buenos Aires 1967 | 13.50 x 20 cm | broché | Second edition only one month after the first edition. Spine lightly wrinkled, small signs of folding in the margins of the boards, a light mark on the second board. Rare and precious autograph inscription signed by Gabriel García Márquez on his masterpiece to his friend and translator Claude Couffon: Para Claude, con un gran abrazo de amigo, Gabriel 1968. (For Claude, with a big hug from your friend, Gabriel 1968.) Claude Couffon, a French specialist and translator of the major Spanish-speaking writers of the second half of the 20th century, translated Chronicle of a Death Foretold a few years later. On the last page, below the colophon, Gabriel García Márquez specified an address in Barcelona, that of his famous literary agent for Spain: c/o Agencia Carmen Ballcells Urgel 241, Barcelona, 11. Rightly considered as one of the most important works op the Spanish language, the novel by García Márquez, however, had difficult beginnings after a first refusal by the avant-garde Barcelona publisher Seix Barral: This novel will not be successful [...], this novel is useless. García Márquez sent it from Mexico to the Argentinian publisher Francisco Porrúa who immediately perceived the power of this unknown Colombian writer: It wasn t a question of getting to the end to find out if the novel could be published. The publication was already decided from the fi
- Publisher: Editorial Sudamericana
- Year: 1967
- Binding: hardcover
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