Jasmines in the Hallway
Michael Wood: García Márquez tells his story, 3 June 2004
Living to Tell the Tale
by Gabriel García Márquez, translated by Edith Grossman.
Cape, 484 pp., £18.99, November 2003,0 224 07278 1 Show More
by Gabriel García Márquez, translated by Edith Grossman.
Cape, 484 pp., £18.99, November 2003,
“... In English as in Spanish the title has several meanings. The most obvious one involves survival, hanging on after some disaster or adventure. Another suggests a telling which has become a life, perhaps even a compulsion or a doom, like that of the Ancient Mariner. And García Márquez himself spells out a third possibility: that you live, that you always have lived, for the sake of the future story, the one you will keep telling ... ”