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\"Gabriel_Garcia_Marquez2_(2009)\"<\/a>

Photo: Festival Internacional de Cine en Guadalajara, 2009<\/p><\/div>\n

In our Summer 2003 issue,<\/em> The Paris Review published Silvana Paternostro\u2019s oral biography of Gabriel Garc\u00eda M\u00e1rquez, which she has recently expanded into a book. In celebration of\u00a0Garc\u00eda M\u00e1rquez<\/em>\u2019s life, we\u2019re delighted to present the piece online for the first time\u2014this is the fourth of five excerpts. Read the complete text here<\/a>. <\/em><\/em><\/p>\n

MAR\u00cdA LUISA EL\u00cdO: I got a call from Spain about 4 a.m. that Gabo had been awarded the Nobel Prize. I put on a pair of pants and a sweater and left for his house, and there was Mercedes with all the phones off the hook. There was a big sign on the door of their house that said Congratulations<\/em>. He had these big eyes wide open as if he were hallucinating.<\/p>\n

JUANCHO JINETE: Obregon went to visit Gabito in Mexico. The address he had for the house was where rich people live, like Mexican soap stars. The day he went to visit was the day Gabo got the Nobel Prize. So when he got to the address, there were flowers everywhere, and he thought, Oh my! He\u2019s dead!<\/p>\n

HECTOR ROJAS HERAZO: When the Nobel came around, Colombia went crazy. Everybody was talking about Gabito. That must\u2019ve changed him. The moment comes that he has to be faithful to the success he has achieved. <\/p>\n

NEREO L\u00d3PEZ: We formed a delegation with the director of Colcultura in order to accompany the Nobel Laureate to Sweden. Singers like La Negra Grande and Toto, la Momposina; folk groups, a group from Barranquilla and a group from the Valle Province. There were 150 of us. They had told the vallenato<\/em> musicians that Swedish girls went ape over Latin American men, so the guys went there ready, willing, and able to screw all the Swedish girls that crossed their paths. On the third day we said, \u201cHey, we haven\u2019t gotten any calls yet. \u201d Seeing that the mountain wasn\u2019t coming to Mohammed, we took Mohammed to the mountain, and we went to a striptease joint. What a joke! They were a bunch of nuns, all covered up, flashing an occasional breast. We were lodged onboard a comfortable but inexpensive ship while the guests of honor were put up in a first-class hotel. It was so cold, one of our crowd wanted to leave. He said: \u201cThe thing is that I have a problem and I need your help. When I go outside to take a leak I don\u2019t find my penis.\u201d He wondered how on earth he was going to go back to his country, where he had three women to respond to. When I asked him where he went to release himself, he told me that he went on deck. I told him that with four or five inches of snow, it was only natural for his penis to hide. I told him, \u201cFor goodness sake, man, what\u2019s the matter with you? There is a bathroom downstairs.\u201d At a restaurant, the woman behind the counter let out a shriek because Escalona was going to drink the vinaigrette, thinking it was some sort of fruit juice: \u201cYou\u2019re drinking the salad dressing!\u201d Aracataca had arrived in Stockholm!<\/p>\n

GUILLERMO ANGULO: I think Gabo gets annoyed when someone tells him that he\u2019s a great writer. That\u2019s very obvious, and he knows it and no one has to tell him.<\/p>\n

ENRIQUE SCOPELL: The Nobel Prize did great damage to Colombian literature. Because now everyone wants to be Garc\u00eda M\u00e1rquez. They say, \u201cOh no. If Garc\u00eda M\u00e1rquez didn\u2019t say it then it\u2019s not Colombian literature. \u201d He casts a very big shadow. Like a bonga tree\u2019s.<\/p>\n

RAMON ILL\u00c1N BACCA: Critics and journalists worship him. They were a horrific presence upon all of us who were trying to write. But people always are very interested in great authors. What has not been written about Thomas Mann?<\/p>\n

EDMUNDO PAZ SOLD\u00c1N: The world of Garc\u00eda M\u00e1rquez has always seemed strange to me. I\u2019ve been able to enjoy it, but from afar. I never considered him a father, more like an uncle\u2014 I could visit him but I would want to leave the next day. As a reader, I admire his writing. But as a writer, I have to say the hell with it. It\u2019s not my thing.<\/p>\n

ALBERTO FUGUET: To read Garc\u00eda M\u00e1rquez at a certain age can be very harmful, and I would forbid it. It can spoil you forever. Garc\u00eda M\u00e1rquez is a software that you install and then can\u2019t get rid of.<\/p>\n

MAR\u00cdA LUISA EL\u00cdO: Have you been out on the streets with him? The girls throw themselves at him. It must be annoying. It\u2019s a phenomenon that didn\u2019t happen with Octavio Paz. I\u2019ve been out with Octavio not once but a thousand times, and I haven\u2019t seen people throwing themselves at him to kiss him or ask him whether or not he is Octavio Paz. Garc\u00eda M\u00e1rquez\u2019s phenomenon is very special. He has great charisma.<\/p>\n

ELISEO ALBERTO: I was walking with Gabo in Cartagena when we heard someone crying out his name: \u201cGabo, Gabo, Gabo.\u201d We turned around and saw this young couple. The young woman was waving at him to come over. When we got there, she held Gabo by the arm and said to him, \u201cGabo, please help me. He doesn\u2019t believe me. Gabo, will you please tell him that I love him.\u201d<\/p>\n

ODERAY GAME: When I lived in Madrid he would call me up and say, \u201cI\u2019m coming to Madrid for three days. I know you have friends in the press so do not tell them I\u2019m coming.\u201d After three anonymous days he would tell me, \u201cHey, I can\u2019t stand being locked up. Let\u2019s go out to a bookstore and see if somebody will ask me to autograph a book.\u201d<\/p>\n

JAIME GARC\u00cdA M\u00c1RQUEZ: When he comes to Colombia they don\u2019t let him rest. A few years ago, we were both in our pajamas talking away, and there is the president, who wants to say hello.<\/p>\n

Silvana Paternostro is a journalist who has written extensively on Cuba and Central and South America. She is the author of <\/em>In the Land of God and Man: Confronting Our Sexual Culture and <\/em>My Colombian War: A Journey Through the Country I Left Behind.<\/p>\n

Read all of \u201cSolitude & Company\u201d here. <\/em><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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