Thursday, January 22, 2015

Public Service Announcement

Gabriel Garcia Marquez did not write ``Reglas para la vida''. NO lo escribio.

In 2001, he disowned a similar text attributed to him by saying:
 "Lo que realmente me puede matar es la vergüenza de que alguien me crea capaz de haber escrito un texto tan cursi."

"What can really kill me is the shame that anyone would think that I can wrote something so corny."

That said, he actually apologized to the real author for this statement:
http://edant.clarin.com/diario/2001/06/10/s-05201.htm

Now that he's dead, he cannot disown this new text as easily. Some sites published it to commemorate his death.

Google, dismayingly enough, does not produce any results that make it clear that he did not write it. All the top results are wrong.

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