it was Colombia and 1982 was the fateful year. It resonates disastrously without the palliatives. Guerrilla attacks intensified, especially the M-19, Those who signed off on the attack on the Attorney General and the seizure of municipalities like Almaguer. The FARC did the same: an ambush against an Anti-Narcotics Police patrol (three dead policemen) in January, a massacre of villagers in the northeast of the country in April (five dead), an attack on the Army in June. San Vicente del Caguan (eight dead). Colombia lived in the crossfire of an undeclared civil warand, though not talked about, drug trafficking had already begun to disrupt power structures. In this unfavorable climate, President Belisario Betancur informed FIFA that the country had given up hosting the 1986 World Cup, which had been designated as the venue eight years ago. World Cup: The event that will change everything, that hope, is one of the few illusions left by the country. Colombia was depressed. everything was bad and nothing to celebrate.
Then it shines like the star back then, appeared Gabriel Garcia MarquezHe is the son of the telegraph operator from Aracataca and has thrown a huge bomb of optimism into the spirit of the country. news first Nobel Prize in Literature There are many readings in Colombian history, literary first, Sure, but it’s also a social country that has little impact and is about context, about the semi-failed country that suddenly finds a reason for pride. The explosion was so big shock wave stretches to the present, and can be seen at celebrations to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the award. Few Nobel Prizes in literature have the meaning and social dimension that García Márquez has in Colombia. few love them in his country. Few, from the president to the bricklayer, are remembered for their endearing condescension. Gabo. gabito
“Colombia in 82 democracy defectiveIt’s a failing nation,” says Omar Rincón, director of the Universidad de los Andes Center for Journalistic Studies. “The Nobel Prize was awarded when the country was in one of its worst moments. Nothing went right, everything went awry. Nobel allowed us to exist”. Conrado Zuluaga, author, editor, and rigorous student of García Márquez’s work, says that the Colombian writer’s influence must be measured in literary terms, not just historically, but historically:Before 1967, when ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’ came along, what was there? Nothing… Some historians, some politicians who exchanged power … Anyone who studies the 20th century in Colombia should analyze how, after reaching García Márquez, his work and his award reflect on the country.”
Beyond the historic moment that matters, the Nobel laureate turned out to be a man of popular origin, unaware of the corsets that defined the Colombian elite: this contributed to making his halo bigger. “Colombia’s best is popular,” says Rincón. “Colombian classicism, the elite gave us little.” For Zuluaga, there is a charisma that explains his connection to the average Colombian (“he was a very nice man, he was kind to people, he didn’t care about the mafia, he signed books everywhere”) and uses an anecdote that occurred during a Hay Festival celebrations in Cartagena de Indias to illustrate this: “I remember one day I went out for a drink at the Hotel Santa Teresa and saw a crowd. at the entrance. I went and asked what was going on and they told me: ‘Mr. García Márquez is in the courtyard with some of his friends and people are lining up to greet him.’ And it was, just like that. He spent two hours greeting people in the midst of a tremendous commotion.
There are hundreds of stories like this, as many people as Gabo shook hands as they passed everywhere from Bogota, Cartagena. “Everyone in this country needs to talk about their Gabo, everyone wants to talk about Gabito.: When I met Gabito, when I met Gabito, when I talked to Gabito. But that’s okay because we don’t have another icon of that size,” says Rincón. “Gabo is our ‘Colombian brand’ abroad, the symbol of the creative Colombian of the good and Pablo Escobar, the creator of the bad. On the other hand, he was a character with many stories behind him and an enormous richness of mythology behind him. For all this I think was and still is a ‘pop star’”. There aren’t many Nobel Prize ceremonies that can boast a winner greets dignitaries with liqui liqui and a backstage party featuring a vallenato band.
All this allows us to formulate the assumption that for Argentines Maradona – the paradigmatic example – is for Colombians in admiration. This is such an idol. “He’s our big idol,” Zuluaga confirms. “Gabo is a reference because he is Gabo”, says Rincón, “but also because he is a hero in a country where we don’t have many heroes”. nor Rulfo Mexicannor Vargas Llosa Perunor Borges Argentina. “It’s not the same, because they’re all very intellectual and in Vargas Llosa’s example, he’s seen as a politician.” After all, García Márquez saved an entire country from depression. It’s not small.
Source: Informacion
