2024-04-18 22:03:22
An unpublished work by the great “Gabo”, Nobel Prize winner for literature in 1982, appears ten years following his death. We will see each other in August tells a very original story, the writing of which gave the sick old writer a lot of trouble, feeling his memory wavering. A final gift to its loyal readers.
Ana Magdalena Bach lives peacefully with a kind husband, a grown-up son and a slightly crazy daughter who nevertheless wants to enter the orders. With also the vivid memory of her mother whom she honors every year, going by boat, alone, to a small island where she is buried. On a fixed date, August 16. But one evening his gaze catches that of a stranger. They find themselves in bed in a feverish embrace. In the early morning the man left without waking her, leaving twenty dollars on the table. The humiliation is angry, lasting. However, the following year, Ana, whose age has in no way dulled her sensuality, found herself with a mysterious lover. Each time she returns home without saying anything, but a little changed. With so many questions. Does her faithful husband also experience secret excesses? Nothing works. She continues the rite and goes every August to place gladioli on the grave, near the lagoon where blue herons snort, where her mother also went, once a year, for a mysterious reason. . So many enigmas. Who is the man who, one day, also placed flowers on the moss-covered stone? And where has Ana’s best lover gone, the unforgettable one whose business card she nevertheless destroyed? García Márquez plays with his words, his simple sentences, to make us navigate between land and sea, between past and present, between erotic impulses and pangs of conscience. With the shock of death and oblivion. The novel is short but so dense. Gabo took it once more, corrected it, completed it at least ten times. He even gave up publishing it. But his trusted publisher, with the agreement of his sons – who speak at the end of the book – nevertheless put the manuscript in order. Published in 2023 in Spain, in 2024 in French.
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