Readers around the world mourn the death of Gabriel García Márquez
Author Gabriel García Márquez died in Mexico yesterday at the age of 87, a death mourned by readers around the world. Spanish readers may feel the loss most intensely. He's the most popular Spanish-language writer in hundreds of years and his novels outsell everything else in Spanish but the Bible....
Author Gabriel García Márquez died in Mexico yesterday at the age of 87, a death mourned by readers around the world. Spanish readers may feel the loss most intensely. He's the most popular Spanish-language writer in hundreds of years and his novels outsell everything else in Spanish but the Bible.
Anyone who's endured a broken heart -- and that would be just everyone who has a heart -- will feel the old pain of the characters in Love in the Time of Cholera. Without giving too much away, a young couple plan to marry -- events intervene -- and they find one another again only in old age.... when it's really kind of too late.
It was made into an English language film about six years ago. Critics were unimpressed, but Gabriel García Márquez apparently really liked it. It is lush. For today's Last Word, we played a clip from the film's Romeo and Juliet balcony-style proposal, with its unusual precondition.