Scandal of the Century. Texts for Newspapers and Magazines (1950‒1984)

Gabriel García Márquez publicly stated that he wanted to be remembered not as the author of One Hundred Years of Solitude and the winner of famous literary awards, but as a reporter: “I was born a journalist and now I feel like one more than ever. It’s in my blood.” The book Scandal of the Century (2018), a collection of his newspaper reports and columns, will help the writer fulfill this will.

The fifty texts in Scandal… cover a wide range of topics: from political coups to Márquez’s “personal Hemingway” and the president’s hairdresser, from literature, ghosts of the past and future, and stories about how novels are written, to insights, the phenomenon of telepathy, and the mystery of mystical history, which he, one of the most prominent writers in Latin America, was unable to give a name to.