Casa de la
Literatura
.
Gabriel
García Márquez
Fotos de la casa por Jaime Navarro
Two things were constant throughout the life of Gabriel García Márquez: writing and conversation. For the former, he needed solitude; for the latter he needed friends, and one subject was recurrent: literature. He enjoyed nothing more than talking about literature, and this he did every afternoon. After a long day of writing, his favorite activity was having his friends join him in conversation: about what he was writing, about what he was reading or had long ago read; about people, references, curiosities and surprises; but about literature, always. So much so that the conversation itself became an act of literature. How much must these afternoons have yielded!
It is their heirs’ mission to keep Mercedes and Gabo’s last house as it was and give it a new twist, so that people might visit it, roam it, and get a feel for the space where everything happened. The house will be maintained as it always was: the very same paintings, furniture, rugs, photographs and books. A splendid garden with the writer’s studio at the back; inside, the desk on which he wrote Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Love in the Time of Cholera, and Living to Tell the Tale, as well as many short stories, chronicles, tales, articles and speeches. There, here, the place where he learned that he’d won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982: Fuego 144, in the south of Mexico City, the Gabriel García Márquez House of Literature.
Visits to the House are one of the projects that Fuego 144 aims to harbor, and around which various activities will take place: seminars, courses, lectures, workshops, book presentations and art exhibits. In parallel to these activities, the house will also be open to private bookings for special events.
We are grateful for your support and your visits!
García Márquez y Mercedes Barcha, 1982.
García Márquez y Mercedes Barcha, 2012.
Contact: casadelaliteraturaggm@gmail.com