Living to Tell the Tale

Living to Tell the Tale (original Spanish-language title: Vivir para contarla) is the first volume of the autobiography of Gabriel García Márquez.

The book was originally published in Spanish in 2002, with an English translation by Edith Grossman published in 2003.

Living to Tell the Tale tells the story of García Márquez' life from 1927 through 1950, ending with his proposal to his wife. It focuses heavily on García Márquez' family, schooling, and early career as a journalist and short story writer, and includes references to numerous real-life events that ended up in his novels in one form or another, including the Banana massacre that appears prominently in One Hundred Years of Solitude and the friend of his whose life and death were the model for Chronicle of a Death Foretold.

Editions

Márquez, Gabriel García (2004). Edith Grossman (Translator), ed. Living to Tell the Tale. Vintage International. ISBN 1-4000-3454-X.

External links

A summary of the book

Works by Gabriel García Márquez

Novels	In Evil Hour One Hundred Years of Solitude The Autumn of the Patriarch Chronicle of a Death Foretold Love in the Time of Cholera The General in His Labyrinth Of Love and Other Demons Memories of My Melancholy Whores

Short stories	Leaf Storm No One Writes to the Colonel Big Mama's Funeral Innocent Eréndira Strange Pilgrims The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings

Non-fiction	The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor Clandestine in Chile News of a Kidnapping Living to Tell the Tale

Speech	The Solitude of Latin America

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