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Has Gabriel García Márquez been betrayed by his sons?

Rodrigo García, says: “We have overruled not him the writer, but we have overruled him the writer who had lost his faculties and was in the fog of Alzheimer’s disease.â€

When Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel García Márquez died a decade ago, he left behind a novel he had written while struggling with dementia.

In his final days, he told his sons the book must be destroyed.

However, they have defied their father’s wishes and published the book, titled, Until August.

Rodrigo García is the son of the Colombian writer who was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature for his tome, One Hundred Years of Solitude. He told Newsday: “What he said was, ‘This doesn’t make any sense, it’s a mess.’ And then another time he would say, ‘It should be destroyed’. And then other times he would go back to work on it and he could make sense of it and then he simply forgot it existed…that’s how we came to the conclusion.â€

He added: “We have overruled not him the writer, but we have overruled him the writer who had lost his faculties and was in the fog of Alzheimer’s disease.â€

(Picture: Shows copies of Until August, the posthumous book by Colombian author and Nobel Prize winner Gabriel García Márquez, in Madrid, Spain, March 5, 2024. Credit: Violeta Santos Moura / Reuters.)

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