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Life is not what one lived, but what one remembers and how one remembers it in order to tell it.

Gabriel García Márquez, Living to Tell the Tale

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Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014), the Colombian author of One Hundred Years of Solitude and winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature, placed this sentence at the start of his memoir, Living to Tell the Tale (2002). It warns the reader that what follows is memory, shaped for telling. The book opens in 1950, when his mother asked him, then 22, to go with her to Aracataca, the town of his childhood, to sell the family house. He later saw that journey as the moment he found what he would write about.

Türkçe oku
Hayat, insanın yaşadıkları değil, hatırladıkları ve onları anlatmak için nasıl hatırladığıdır.
Gabriel García Márquez, Anlatmak İçin Yaşamak

Yüzyıllık Yalnızlık'ın yazarı, 1982 Nobel Edebiyat Ödülü sahibi Kolombiyalı Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014), bu cümleyi anı kitabı Anlatmak İçin Yaşamak'ın (2002) başına koydu. Cümle okuru, ardından gelenlerin anlatılmak üzere biçimlendirilmiş anılar olduğu konusunda uyarır. Kitap 1950'de, annesinin o sırada 22 yaşındaki Gabriel'den aile evini satmak için onunla birlikte çocukluğunun geçtiği Aracataca'ya gitmesini istemesiyle açılır. García Márquez bu yolculuğu sonradan, ne yazacağını bulduğu an olarak görecekti.

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