and garcia, gabriel garcia marquez... ..garcia marquez...perhaps the most famous south american author of our times. yeah, yeah. he belonged to a generation that, erm, that wrote, that retold the history of our countries from abroad. so we have this very strange situation in south america where the best novel about colombia — 100 years of solitude — was written in mexico, and the best novel about peru by mario vargas llosa was written in paris, and carlos fuentes, the great mexican novelist, wrote in washington and london. erm, so it is a kind of necessity, perhaps, that we find to, you know, get a little removed from the places that we are discussing. it's interesting to just reflect on garcia marquez, cos... yeah. i know it's become a bit of a cliche, but this this phrase used about his work — and, indeed, 100 years of solitude was "magical realism". you do something very different. yes. you use a lot of recent history, of facts, and you weave personal stories around those facts, and it's often quite brutal and it's quite violent and dif
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