The excerpts that follow are part of an extensive conversation with Gabriel García Márquez, which I recorded on May 6, 1994, in Havana, Cuba, with the participation of the recently-deceased journalist Mauricio Vicent. The Colombian novelist was 67 years old at the time, and he spoke openly, revealing his full, overwhelming self. His novel Of Love and Other Demons had just been published.
In the interview – unpublished until now, and the full version of which is available inside Issue 117 of the cultural magazine TintaLibre – the winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature discusses music, the Caribbean, money, love, his books and his ideas.
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