Gabriel Garcia Marquez Will Write No More

In Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s masterwork, One Hundred Years of Solitude, a family deals with the growing senility of its patriarch. More than 40 years after the publication of the book, its author deals with a similar challenge.

According to the BBC, the author’s brother, Jaime Garcia Marquez, recently told students at a lecture in Cartagena that the 85-year-old author has been “suffering from dementia for a long time.” Even so, Jaime said, “He still has the humour, joy and enthusiasm that he has always had,” adding that the author’s condition “is a disease that runs in the family.”

The younger brother said that Gabriel Garcia Marquez, who has made few public appearances in recent years, is no longer writing.

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