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GARCIA MARQUEZ, GABRIEL. Autograph letter signed to "Maestro", Mexico [City], 31 July 1973, 1 pages, folio, a detailed letter regarding a $10,000 check from the University of Oklahoma which Garcia Marquez intends to use to help political prisoners, he writes, "...this check has [taken on] a symbolic role..."-- Autograph note signed, n.p., n.d., 2 pages, 4to, personal stationery, a note to a friend, mentioning, the "titanic effort required to read Joyce's Ulysses" -- Autograph note signed, Havana, n.d., 2 pages, 8vo, on Fundacin del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano card, announcing the title of THE GENERAL IN HIS LABYRINTH, Garcia Marquez's 1990 work on Bolivar -- Typed letter signed, n.p., 3 January 1968, 1 page, folio, including a detailed discussion of his work, A HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE, "...the incestuous vocation of Amaranta is not a negative aspect of her character, but instead a determining one. I believe that she was predestined by the heavy weight of her family history to conceive the child with the pig's tail, and that she lacked the courage to confront her destiny..." -- Typed letter signed, n.p., 1 April 1968, 2 pages, 8vo, on his writing, "I work without haste, although with a great deal of difficulty...on an effort to to take apart and dismantle the style of One Hundred Years of Solitude, trying to move into something truely new, so that the next novel does not profit, either involuntarily or voluntarily, from the comercial and critical success of the previous one..." -- Typed letter signed, n.p., 11 March 1970, 1 page, 8vo, advice on writing, "In any case, there is a certain merit to treating a dirty and bloody theme in a completely lyrical style. Thus to show, that even in shit there is poetry..." -- Typed letter signed, n.p., 4 June 1970, 1 page, 8vo, on the creative process of the writer, "From my point of view, the writer is an individual who learns nothing. Always we have to begin again as though it were our first time. Each word is like childbirth...".
This group of seven letters, all informally signed "Gabo", was sent to Marquez's friend, the author Alfredo Iriarte. Letters from the Nobel Laureate, especially wih such insight into his work as these, are SCARCE. (7)
This group of seven letters, all informally signed "Gabo", was sent to Marquez's friend, the author Alfredo Iriarte. Letters from the Nobel Laureate, especially wih such insight into his work as these, are SCARCE. (7)