Reportedly he got isolated from rest of the world, locked himself into room for months with papers, pens, cigarettes.
JUBAIL, SAUDI ARABIA: Gabriel Garcia Marquez left for good for an unknown and mystical world on April 17. His stories and novels were woven around the realities of life and politics he learned in his childhood from his grandfather but it was his grandmother who gave his plots colour and imagination. For her he gained knowledge of superstitions and folk stories, which he then wove into his writings.
One wonders about his superb novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude. Reportedly he got isolated from the rest of the world and locked himself into a room for months with papers, pens and cigarettes. This seclusion of many months bore his greatest work which became read all over the world.
A closing quote from Garcia well summarizes his genuis: “It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.”
Masood Khan
Published in The Express Tribune, April 19th, 2014.
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