has been found in the old colonial city by the sea his final resting place. At the end of hundreds of yellow paper butterflies float through the courtyard, has been in the buried his urn is. The butterflies are the recurring motif of the masterpiece “One Hundred Years of Solitude” by Gabriel García Márquez about the rise and fall of the Buendía family. He coined so the “magical realism”, commuting between fiction and reality.
“People know that it liked to live in Cartagena. But even more, it would please me that you buried me one day in Cartagena, “he had confided to his friend Juan Gossain.
Now, two years after his death in the adopted home of Mexico, is the Colombian Nobel literature of wish been fulfilled. In the courtyard of the former monastery La Merced, now part of the University, he has found the letze rest on Sunday evening. In a solemn ceremony the urn was buried with his ashes.
His love for the city that influenced him, began in April 1948. “As soon as I was inside the walls, the city was in mauve six- to be in its former glory before me, and the feeling came over me, reborn o’clock evening light “, the writer (1927-2014) recalled fifty years later in his memoirs.
he is just 21 when he arrives in the picturesque colonial city, fled the bloody riots that followed in Bogotá on the assassination of presidential candidate Jorge Eliecer Gaitán.
the pension, lived in Garcia Marquez as a law student in the capital, was in flames worked: his typewriter and – even worse – burned some unpublished stories
the Colombian Cartagena with its mansions and winding streets affects him as an oasis of calm.. That he has to spend the first night in jail caught him the police despite a curfew on a park bench, is less serious. García Márquez anyway hardly four pesos in his pocket
Although he lives at that time only 20 months in Cartagena, before he moves on to the nearby Barranquilla. But the city should greatly influence his life and work. His widow Mercedes Barcha and his sons Gonzalo and Rodrigo are present on Sunday. The former abbey building now houses the doctoral department of the university, temporarily continued at the García Márquez at the insistence of parents to study law – which he never completed
The ceremony was already held the end of 2015.. “The work, however, a cistern from the colonial era was discovered, which would later be incorporated into the monument with,” says an employee of the university. In the center is a marble base has been installed in the urn was taken, surrounded by many yellow roses. In perched a body set up by the British sculptor Kate Murray bust of the writer who revealed his sons.
Only 500 meters away is a house of García Márquez family ‘. Although he spent many years in Mexico, but spent time and again time in Cartagena. “La Heroica” (The Heroic), as the city is known for her fight against pirates and colonizers, has some of his major works inspired.
In today Unesco World Heritage Site plays about the epic love story between Fermina Daza and Florentino Ariza, the “love in time of cholera” 51 years, will have to wait nine months and four days in his beloved. In “The General in His Labyrinth” welcomes the Caribbean city of the Swiss national hero Simón Bolívar, and the novel “Of love and other demons” tells the story of the girl Sierva María, which is bitten on the market of Cartagena by a rabid dog in the ankle , Also, the first work “Leaf Storm” was mostly here.
“The city represents a turning point in his work is,” said literature professor Conrado Zuluaga the newspaper “El Tiempo”. Finally, the journalistic career of the author started really only at the local journal “El Universal”. Some 50 years later, he should establish the Foundation Nuevo Periodismo Iberoamericano, who cares there to young journalists.
For the García-Márquez biographer Dasso Saldívar the importance of Cartagena is that “Gabo” there to its Caribbean roots found. The mystical coastal town have strongly influenced him. “Here the journalist and real writers are born,” writes Saldívar. He worked there as a young author of a novel called “La casa” (house), but shelved it after a few years. “This package is too big for me,” he is quoted as saying about the book under a different title would become his masterpiece some 20 years later: “Hundred Years of Solitude”
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