The unpublished novel by Gabriel García Márquez “See you in August” will be published in 2024

“See you in August”, the unpublished novel of the Nobel Prize for Literature Gabriel Garcia Marquez, It will be published in 2024, ten years after the death of the Colombian writer, the Random House Literature label announced this Friday.

The novel will be published by this publisher in all Spanish-speaking countries except Mexico, in what it considers “the most important editorial event of the coming year.”

For years readers have been waiting for this work to see the light of day, which was found like the rest of his personal archive at the Harry Ramson Center in Austin (United States) and now his family has decided that it should come out, twenty years after his last work. published, “Memory of my sad whores”, in 2004.

In the words of his sons, Rodrigo and Gonzalo García Barcha, “See you in August” was “the fruit of a last effort to continue creating against all odds” by Gabriel García Márquez, nicknamed Gabo” (1927-2014), Nobel Prize winner of Literature 1982 and father of the so-called “magical realism”.

It was in 2008 when the also deceased Colombian journalist José Salgar, whom García Márquez considered his teacher, assured EFE that the author was finishing this novel, a work with which he intended to close the cycle that began in 1985 with “El amor en the times of cholera” and continued with “Of love and other demons” (1994) and with “Memory of my sad whores” (2004).

The novel, as explained at the time, is the story of a high-society woman who visits a seaside resort on the Colombian coast every August, initially conceived by Gabo for short stories, one of which he published in El País and another in The New Yorker, and which he ultimately decided to turn into a novel.

Each chapter recounted one of the visits and, according to the story published in 1999 in The New Yorker, the woman’s name was Ana Magdalena Bach, she was 52 years old, happily married, and every year she visited her mother’s grave on an island in the Caribbean.

For 28 years and every August 16, he punctually visited his mother’s grave, on which he places a bouquet of gladioli and takes the opportunity to tell her family news.

And each time he stayed in the same room in the same hotel, where one night on one of those August 16th he meets a man at the bar.

García Márquez’s personal archive was sold by his family to the University of Texas (United States), where it is part of the Ransom Center’s collection, documents that include original manuscripts, predominantly in Spanish, of ten of his books, along with more than 2,000 pieces of correspondence and drafts of his 1982 Nobel Prize acceptance speech.

They also keep more than forty photographic albums on aspects of his life throughout almost nine decades, the Smith Corona typewriters and the computers on which he wrote some of the most beloved works of the 20th century or albums with clippings from American newspapers. Latina and from around the world who meticulously document his career as a writer.

The new book will go on sale in physical, electronic and audio books in the main languages ​​of the world.

WITH INFORMATION FROM EFE.