Overview
Una fascinante investigación por los lugares, personajes y hechos reales que inspiraron una de las novelas más reconocidas de Gabriel García Márquez: Crónica de una muerte anunciada.
Durante una visita al Harry Ransom Center, donde reposan los archivos personales de Gabriel García Márquez, Nadia Celis dio con un importante hallazgo: un manuscrito inédito de Crónica de una muerte anunciada que contiene un insólito epílogo. El descubrimiento detonó en la escritora el impulso por desentrañar los efectos que la célebre novela del Premio Nobel tuvo y sigue teniendo no solo en los personajes reales que inspiraron aquella historia, sino también en sus miles de lectoras y lectores. Este libro, su extraordinario relato de la investigación, es una travesía apasionante que rebasa los límites de la ficción y de la realidad.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
Mesmerizing research through the places, characters, and real events that inspired one of the best-known novels by Gabriel García Márquez: Chronicle of a Death Foretold.
During a visit to the Harry Ransom Center, where Gabriel García Márquez’ personal archive is kept, Nadia Cleis came across an important find: an unpublished manuscript of Chronicle of a Death Foretold containing a rare epilogue. The find detonated in the writer the impulse to unravel the effects the famous novel by the Nobel Prize winner had and still has, not only in the real-life people who inspired the story, but in thousands of readers. This book, an extraordinary account of her research, is a passionate journey that goes beyond the limits of reality and fiction.
Durante una visita al Harry Ransom Center, donde reposan los archivos personales de Gabriel García Márquez, Nadia Celis dio con un importante hallazgo: un manuscrito inédito de Crónica de una muerte anunciada que contiene un insólito epílogo. El descubrimiento detonó en la escritora el impulso por desentrañar los efectos que la célebre novela del Premio Nobel tuvo y sigue teniendo no solo en los personajes reales que inspiraron aquella historia, sino también en sus miles de lectoras y lectores. Este libro, su extraordinario relato de la investigación, es una travesía apasionante que rebasa los límites de la ficción y de la realidad.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
Mesmerizing research through the places, characters, and real events that inspired one of the best-known novels by Gabriel García Márquez: Chronicle of a Death Foretold.
During a visit to the Harry Ransom Center, where Gabriel García Márquez’ personal archive is kept, Nadia Cleis came across an important find: an unpublished manuscript of Chronicle of a Death Foretold containing a rare epilogue. The find detonated in the writer the impulse to unravel the effects the famous novel by the Nobel Prize winner had and still has, not only in the real-life people who inspired the story, but in thousands of readers. This book, an extraordinary account of her research, is a passionate journey that goes beyond the limits of reality and fiction.
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