TaláLkozunk Augusztusban [Until August - Novel.] (First Hungarian Edition.) Gabriel GarcíA MáRquez Hungarian-Language Books

Gabriel García Márquez: Találkozunk augusztusban [Until August - Novel.] [Translated by László Scholz] Budapest, 2024. Magvetö. 82 p. First Hungarian edition. Publisher's hardcover. - -- - Ana Magdalena Bach lives happily with her husband of 27 years. Despite this, she takes a ferry every August to the island where her mother is buried, and every August takes a new lover. It is the first and only novel by Márquez to be centered on a female protagonist. - -- - Until August is a novel by Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez published posthumously in March 2024. It was released on the 97th anniversary of his birth, March 6th 2024. Until August was originally planned to be a collection of four stories. Márquez had worked on the novel at least since 1997. In September of that year he read portions of Until August out loud at Georgetown University. However, he put aside work on the novel to work on Memories of My Melancholy Whores. In 2004, he commented that he felt satisfied with the development of the protagonist, but did not feel satisfied with the version of the novel he had written. He never completed the novel. Towards the end of his life, he began to suffer from dementia. Due to his memory issues, he could no longer follow the plot of the novel, and therefore could not complete it. The manuscript of the novel was placed in an archive at Ransom Center after the death of Márquez. Originally, his family decided not to publish the incomplete novel. However, in 2022, his sons reread the drafts of the novel, of which there were five. Although Márquez had requested the destruction of the novel, his sons found literary worth in the novel, and chose to edit and release it, stating "We did think about it for about three seconds - was it a betrayal to my parents, to my father's [wishes]? And we decided, yes, it was a betrayal. But that's what children are for". The publication of Until August was announced in April 2023. According to Márquez' sons, this will be the final work of Márquez published, as there is nothing else left in his archive. - -- - Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez ( 1927 2014) was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter, and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo or Gabito throughout Latin America. Considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century, particularly in the Spanish language, he was awarded the 1972 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature.