The scandal of the century : and other writings

9780525656425

First edition

xxiv, 302 pages ; 25 cm

Works. Selections. English

"This is a Borzoi Book published by Alfred A. Knopf."
Translation of: El escándalo del siglo : textos en prensa y revistas (1950-1984)
Translated from the Spanish

The presidential barber
Topic for a topical piece
An understandable mistake
The lonely hearts killer
Death is an unpunctual lady
The strange idolatry of la Sierpe
A man arrives in the rain
The house of the Buendías (notes for a novel)
Literaturism
The precursors
The postman rings a thousand times
The Aracataca tiger
H.H. goes on vacation (fragment)
The scandal of the century
The disappearing women of Paris: are they in Caracas?
"I visited Hungary" (fragment)
The world's most famous year
Only twelve hours to save him
June 6, 1958: Caracas without water
Misadventures of a writer of books
I can't think of any title
The Sandinista heist : chronicle of the assault on the "hog house"
The Cubans face the blockade
The specter of the Nobel Prize
Telepathy without strings
The new oldest profession
Yes, nostalgia is the same as it ever was
Horror story for new year's eve
Magic Caribbean
Poetry, in children's reach
The river of life
María of my heart
Like souls in purgatory
Something else on literature and reality
My personal Hemingway
Ghosts of the road
Bogotá 1947
Tales of the road
My other me
Poor good translators
Sleeping beauty on the airplane
Writer wanted
Obregón or the boundless vocation
Literature without pain
From Paris, with love
Return to Mexico
Okay, we'll talk about literature
That news board
Return to the seed
How do you write a novel?

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Anderson, Jon Lee, writer of foreword
McLean, Anne, 1962- translator
Pera, Cristóbal, editor