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• ISBN: 9781101911181
• ISBN: 1101911182
• Physical Description: vi, 154 pages ; 21 cm
• Edition: 1st Vintage International edition
• Publisher: New York : Vintage International, Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2019.

Content descriptions

General Note:

"This collection first published in Spanish by Grijalbo Mondadori 2010 (Yo no vengo a decir un discurso)."

Formatted Contents Note:

The academy of duty (Zipaquira, Colombia, November 17, 1944) -- How I began to write (Caracas, venezuela, May 3, 1970) -- Because of you (Caracas, Venezuela, August 2, 1972) -- Another, different homeland (Mexico City, October 22, 1982) -- The solitude of Latin America (Stockholm, Sweden, December 8, 1982) -- Ceremony awarding the Nobel Prize in Literature to Gabriel Garcia-Marquez: a toast to poetry (Stockholm, Sweden, December 10, 1982) -- Words for a new millennium (Havana, Cuba, November 29, 1985) -- The cataclysm of damocles (Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo, Mexico, August 6, 1986) -- An indestructible idea (Havana, Cuba, December 4, 1986) -- Preface to a new millennium (Caracas, Venezuela, March 4, 1990) -- I'm not here (Havana, Cuba, December 8, 1992) -- In honour of Belisario Betancur on the occasion of his seventieth birthday (Santafe de Bogota, Colombia, February 18, 1993) -- My friend Mutis (Santafe de Bogota, Colombia, August 25, 1993) -- The Argentine who endeared himself to everybody (Mexico City, February 12, 1994) -- Latin America exists (Contadora, Panama, March 28, 1995) -- A different nature in a world different from ours (Santafe de Bogota, Colombia, April 12, 1996) -- Journalism: the best job in the world (Los Angeles, United States, October 7, 1996) -- A bottle in the ocean for the god of words (Zacatecas, Mexico, April 7, 1997) -- Dreams for the twenty-first century (Paris, France, March 8, 1999) -- The beloved though distant homeland (Medellin, Colombia, May 18, 2003) -- A soul open to be filled with messages in Spanish (Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, March 26, 2007).

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García Márquez, Gabriel, 1927-2014 > Oratory.