In 2014, the nobel prize- winning and Colombian journalist Gabriel García Márquez (1927-2014) left his readers inconsolable after his death. Now, for the comfort and happiness of a few Spanish speakers who have the chance to hang out at the Harry Ramson Center, at The University of Texas at Austin, one may read the original manuscripts of One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) to Love in the Time of Cholera (1985) to Memories of My Melancholy Whores (2004); After all, the university recently acquired the entire archive of the writer, including more than 2,000 pieces of correspondence, including letters from Carlos Fuentes and Graham Greene; drafts of his 1982 Nobel Prize acceptance speech; more than 40 photograph albums documenting all aspects of his life over nearly nine decades; the Smith Corona typewriters and computers on which he wrote some of the 20th centurys most beloved works; and scrapbooks meticulously documenting his career via news clippings from Latin America and around the world. While in Austin I was a habitue at the Harry Ransom Center, which is a literary treasure paradise for book lovers, mainly rare books. I ended up writing a news story about one of the few existing copies of the first edition of Os Lusíadas, published in 1572, which the center owns. Check it out if you are curious to learn more(in Portuguese) : publico.pt/culturaipsilon/noticia/a-edicao-texana-de-os-lusiadas--1614026 hrc.utexas.edu/press/releases/2014/ggm.html
Posted on: Sun, 04 Jan 2015 12:52:52 +0000