Álvaro Santana-Acuña, "Ascent to Glory: How One Hundred Years of Solitude Was Written and Became a Global Classic" (Columbia UP, 2020)
New Books in World Affairs
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The Literary Forbears of Garcia Marks
In your book you reconstruct the fake news, as you have called it, about the success of the book and how it amassed its cult following. You deny that there is any single recipe to turn a work of art into a classic. And in pages that make fascinating reading, you say that many of the myths surrounding the book are things at garcia marques was party to. In the end, based on a lot of evidence, it was the cultural brokers, the literally conocenti and fellow writers of the boom who made the success of 100 years of solitude possible.
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