Marquez’s Until August is about female infidelity. But it is also a love story. It is a special book because of its origin. It was written whilst Marquez was already losing his memory and as his children recount in the Preface, Marquez said ‘Memory is at once my source material and my tool. Without it, there’s nothing.’
In Philippic II, Cicero(106 -43 BC) wrote a rebuttal to Mark Anthony’s scurrilous attack on him. This was not the Shakespearean Mark Anthony but the real-life historical Marcus Antonius, debauched, lascivious, drunkard Marcus Antonius. The Marcus Antonius who was unfit for office.
I first came across Gabriel Garcia Marquez in 1977/78. That year, I had just graduated from medical school and was completing my house jobs at University College Hospital Ibadan. At last I was able to read for fun and I was earning some money and was able to spend on books. So, I read…
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