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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 last of five excerpts we\u2019ve run this week. Read the complete text here<\/a>.
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ROSE STYRON: Somehow, everyone on Martha\u2019s Vineyard seemed to know that he was coming to visit us. Everyone wanted to meet him. Harvey Weinstein, spotting me in Vineyard Haven, hurried over to say, \u201cPlease invite me\u2014he\u2019s my favorite author\u2014I\u2019ll sweep the floors.\u201d President Clinton, whom Gabo admired and hoped to talk with, wanted Chelsea to meet him. We decided a large cocktail gathering on our lawn would be prudent, to be followed by a very small seated dinner so the president and Gabo and our Mexican guests, the Carlos Fuenteses and Bernardo Sepulvedas (he was the former foreign minister), could chat in relative quiet. At dinner Gabo\u2019s goddaughter, our friend Patricia Cepeda, translated ably. Our Vineyard neighbors, the Vernon Jordans and the William Luers, and Hillary Clinton completed the table. We all remember that President Clinton\u2019s sweater sported an Elvis crossword puzzle.<\/p>\n

WILLIAM STYRON: Although I wasn\u2019t listening closely, I could tell\u2014I have enough Spanish to know\u2014that Gabo and Carlos were engaging him in a talk about the Cuban embargo. They were both at that time passionate about the embargo. Clinton was resisting this conversation, I presume because his mind was already made up. He wasn\u2019t about to be budged even by people that he admired as much as Gabo. So Bill Luers, sitting closer, seeing Clinton\u2019s eyes glaze over, as an ex-diplomat spoke out firmly enough to change the tone of the conversation from politics in Cuba to literary matters. It changed the entire tone at the table. Someone, Bill Luers or perhaps Clinton, asked everyone at the table to give the name of their favorite novel. Clinton\u2019s eyes lit up rather pleasurably. We had a sort of literary parlor game. I recall that Carlos said his favorite novel was\u00a0Don Quixote<\/em>. Gabo said\u00a0The Count of Monte Cristo<\/em>, and later described why. He said it was the perfect novel. It was spellbinding, not just a costumed melodrama, really a universal masterpiece. I said\u00a0Huckleberry Finn<\/em> just off the top of my head. Finally, Clinton said\u00a0The Sound and the Fury<\/em>. Immediately, to everyone\u2019s amazement he began to quote verbatim a long, long passage from the book. It was quite spellbinding to see him do that because he then began to give a little interesting lecture on the power of Faulkner and how much Faulkner had influenced him. He then had this kind of two-way conversation with Gabo, in which Gabo said that without Faulkner he would never have been able to write a single word, that Faulkner was his direct inspiration as a writer when he was just beginning to read world literature in Colombia. He made a pilgrimage to Oxford, Mississippi. I remember him mentioning this to Clinton. So the evening was a great success, though a total failure as far as politics went. <\/p>\n

GUILLERMO ANGELO: Fame and fortune make people change. You can\u2019t compare the old Gabo with who he is today. Nowadays, he is far more aloof; he doesn\u2019t give of himself the way he used to in the past. Gabo has a strange tendency\u2014he adores power, be it economic power or political power. He loves that kind of thing. Once, [General Omar] Torrijos [former dictator of Panama] told him that he [Gabo] liked dictators and Gabo asked him why. \u201cYou\u2019re my friend and Castro\u2019s.\u201d<\/p>\n

WILLIAM STYRON: I do think that in many ways there\u2019s an eccentric aspect to Castro, which sets him apart from other dictators. He\u2019s got a fascinating and supple and intricate mind. I think that Gabo is attracted to that part of Castro. I remember this interesting little anecdote that Gabo told me. A very delicate crisis\u2014I forget what\u2014that brought the world\u2019s journalists\u2019 attention to Cuba. Gabo flew in to Havana from, I think, Mexico City. There were hundreds of journalists gathered at the airport. Fidel met Gabo and they walked together into an anteroom in the airport. They were there for half an hour or more while these journalists from all the world\u2019s news agencies were clustered around waiting to see what in this case Gabo had said to Fidel and vice versa. They finally came out and confronted the journalists. The first question, of course, was to Gabo: \u201cCould we ask you what you were talking about just now?\u201d And Gabo answered, \u201cWe were talking about the best way to cook red snapper. \u201d<\/p>\n

GUILLERMO ANGULO: Gabo really boasts of the fact that there are nine heads of state that he can call on the phone, and he\u2019s become a friend of Clinton\u2019s.<\/p>\n

WILLIAM STYRON: We had an interesting talk about presidents. We both agreed that we were almost fatally attracted to presidents. In his case, in Latin America, these men who have almost always ruthlessly climbed to power have an enormous effect on their fellow men. This is a central aspect of national existence. A man like Castro, the president of Mexico\u2014they hold sway over a whole nation. Therefore they are legitimately people who fascinate writers. I find them fascinating, but the idea that I could in any sense influence him in a major way is a delusion. But this is not true in Latin America.<\/p>\n

ENRIQUE SCOPELL: This thing about Gabito is an illness. When Gabo says something, it\u2019s like hearing it from the pope. What do you call it when the pope says something and he\u2019s never wrong? Ex cathedra<\/em>. That means he can\u2019t be wrong. He can make a mistake when he speaks as a normal man, but not when he speaks ex cathedra<\/em>.<\/p>\n

WILLIAM STYRON: Gabo could not exist in the Anglo-Saxon world. We have no real tradition. It\u2019s not that writers to some degree aren\u2019t respected in this country. They are, but not to the degree they are not only respected but venerated elsewhere. Carlos Fuentes and Octavio Paz had that effect in Mexico. Mario Vargas Llosa was close to becoming president of Peru. Gabo is this sort of phenomenon par excellence. The idea of a writer having such a profound political and cultural influence in the United States like Gabo has in Latin America is inconceivable.<\/p>\n

JUANCHO JINETE: I will never forget when Gabito came and stayed at Alvaro\u2019s house, and Juan Gossain\u2014who is the big cheese in Colombian journalism today\u2014was also at the house. Gabo hugged me and said, \u201cThese are my childhood friends. \u201d Then Juan Gossain told Gabito, \u201cMaestro, let me interview you.\u201d Gabito said to him, \u201cWhat kind of a journalist are you? What more do you want? You have the story right here in your hands. Get it!\u201d It was true\u2014you didn\u2019t have to ask any questions. You know that when journalists start asking questions they ruin the interview\u2014they start to ask a bunch of nonsense that nobody is going to answer truthfully; they tell you the truth that you want to hear\u2014that such and such was a wonderful person, and so on and so forth, all clich\u00e9s, but none of it is true. Gabito told him, \u201cWhat more do you want? This is my friend here since we were children. There\u2019s your story.\u201d<\/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

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