‘See you in August’: the posthumous novel by Gabriel García Márquez

The memory loss that García Márquez suffered in his later days did not allow him to fit in all the pieces and corrections. and revising the text was the best way to occupy his days doing what he liked most, according to Pera himself in the preface to the novel.

Gonzalo and Rodrigo García Barcha assure that ‘See you in August’ was the fruit of García Márquez’s last effort to continue creating ‘against all odds’. And they believe, as they stated this Tuesday, that perhaps the lack of faculties that seemed to have prevented him from realizing how good this book was.

And even though Gabo said: “This book is useless, it must be destroyed,” his children did not pay attention to him, although they left it aside and in a file. And reading it once again, years after his death, they said, they discovered in this story the most outstanding thing about their father’s work, his capacity for invention, the poetry of language or his captivating narrative.

Because, they highlighted, “A Gabo in his right mind would have either finished it or destroyed it, so that there would be no remains”.

And although ‘Memories of my sad whores’ was the last fiction he published during his lifetime, for more than a decade he was working on the story starring this woman, something unusual in García Márquez’s literature.

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Although a female protagonist is not common in his literature, Gabriel García Márquez considered himself “a feminist in the way he led his life”said her son Gonzalo, who recalled that his mother was a strong woman who was not crushed by her husband’s fame.

Gabo’s children assured that in the novel that is now published “no editing work has been done to the point of having to add phrases”since although the story could be “if anything a little scattered but complete.”

This text that arrives this Wednesday in bookstores is “the last survivor” of the work of García Márquez. His children wanted to leave no loose ends so that the entire work of the Colombian Nobel Prize winner is available to readers: “and the readers will decide if we, the children, were wrong or not,” they said.