我很高興馬奎斯(1927-2014)在過世前寫了苦妓回憶錄 (Memories of My Melancholy Whores,
2004)這是他的最後一本小說
In 1999, García Márquez was
diagnosed with lymphatic cancer.[65] Chemotherapy provided
by a hospital in Los Angeles proved to be successful, and the illness went into
remission.[65][90] This
event prompted García Márquez to begin writing his memoirs: "I reduced
relations with my friends to a minimum, disconnected the telephone, canceled
the trips and all sorts of current and future plans", he told El Tiempo, the Colombian newspaper,
"...and locked myself in to write every day without interruption."[90] In
2002, three years later, he published Living to Tell the Tale (Vivir
para Contarla), the first volume in a projected trilogy of memoirs.[90]
In 2000, his impending death was incorrectly reported by
Peruvian daily newspaper La República.
The next day other newspapers republished his alleged farewell poem, "La
Marioneta," but shortly afterwards García Márquez denied being the author
of the poem, which was determined to be the work of a Mexican ventriloquist.[91][92][93]
He stated that 2005 "was the first [year] in my life
in which I haven't written even a line. With my experience, I could write a new
novel without any problems, but people would realise my heart wasn't in it."[94]
In May 2008, it was announced that García Márquez was
finishing a new "novel of love" that had yet to be given a title, to
be published by the end of the year.[95] However,
in April 2009 his agent, Carmen Balcells,
told the Chilean newspaper La Tercera that
García Márquez was unlikely to write again.[94] This
was disputed by Random House Mondadori editor Cristobal Pera, who stated that
García Márquez was completing a new novel called We'll Meet in August (En
agosto nos vemos).[96]
In December 2008, García Márquez told fans at the
Guadalajara book fair that writing had worn him out.[94] In
2009, responding to claims by both his literary agent and his biographer that
his writing career was over, he told Colombian newspaper El Tiempo:
"Not only is it not true, but the only thing I do is write".[94][97]
In 2012, his brother Jaime announced that García Márquez
was suffering from dementia.
這件事說明了甚麼這件事說明了憂鬱的妓女是我們永恆的故鄉
今天早上我跟同學說返鄉的鮭魚其實回不到出發的原鄉因為可惡的水壩已經阻斷了回家的路
意思是說你養在魚池裡終老的鮭魚是憂鬱的鮭魚
