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Relato de un naufrago / The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor

Relato de un naufrago / The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Paperback
Publication Date: 09/03/2010

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El 28 de febrero de 1955 el destructor Caldas, que viajaba de Estados Unidos a Colombia, sufrio un accidente. Con la finalidad de rescatar a los naufragos, las fuerzas norteamericanas del canal de Panama peinaron la zona cercana al siniestro. Despues de cuatro dias de busqueda no encontraron ningun sobreviviente y se desistio de la busqueda. Una semana mas tarde aparecio Luis Alejandro Velasco, quien despues de pasar en las aguas del Caribe diez dias a la deriva, logro llegar a tierra.

Con este libro, Gabriel Garcia Marquez se descubrio a si mismo como un narrador. Sin embargo, la intencion primera era la de escribir un reportaje sobre un hombre que estuvo diez dias a la deriva en una balsa mecida por el mar Caribe. El futuro premio Nobel de literatura y entonces joven reportero que era Garcia Marquez escucho el relato de los hechos de boca de su protagonista, y lo transformo, tal vez sin pretenderlo, en un prodigioso ejercicio literario, una narracion escueta y vigorosa donde late el pulso de un gran escritor.

La publicacion por entregas del reportaje en El espectador de Bogota supuso un alboroto politico considerable -se revelaba la existencia de contrabando ilegal en un buque de la Armada colombiana, lo que costo la vida de siete marineros y el naufragio, mas afortunado, de Velasco- y el exilio para su autor, que se vio abocado a una nueva vida.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor is a work of non-fiction by Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The novel is about a shipwrecked sailor "Velasques" who struggles for ten days to reach the coast.

In 1955, Garcia Marquez was working for El Espectador, a newspaper in Bogota, when in February of that year eight crew members of the Caldas, a Colombian destroyer, were washed overboard and disappeared. Ten days later one of them turned up, barely alive, on a deserted beach in northern Colombia. This book, which originally appeared as a series of newspaper articles, is Garcia Marquez's account of that sailor's ordeal.
ISBN:
9780307475381
9780307475381
Category:
Contemporary fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
09-03-2010
Language:
Spanish
Publisher:
Vintage Espanol
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
176
Dimensions (mm):
202x132x10mm
Weight:
0.14kg
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Gabriel Garcia Marquez was born in 1927 near Aracataca, Colombia. He is the author of One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera, and Living to Tell the Tale, among other works of fiction and non-fiction. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982.

He lives in Mexico City. Gabriel Garcia Marquez was born on 6 March 1927 in Aractaca, Colombia, and died on 17 April 2014 in Mexico City, aged 87. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982 for a body of work that includes novels, works of non-fiction and collections of short stories.

His most famous works include Leaf Storm (1955), In Evil Hour (1962), One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), The Autumn of the Patriarch(1975), Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981), Love in the Time of Cholera (1985), The General in His Labyrinth (1989), News of a Kidnapping (1996), Living to Tell the Tale (2002) and Memories of My Melancholy Whores (2004).

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