Signed limited first Colombian edition of the Nobel Prize-winner's acclaimed novel, a "love story with a difference" (Bell-Villada), whose consummation is deferred but whose passion survives for the better part of a century.
Near fine in very good plus jacket.
Price: $5,000.00
"This novel is also revolutionary in daring to suggest that vows of love made under a presumption of immortality - youthful idiocy, to some - may yet be honored, much later in life when we ought to know better, in the face of the undeniable." - Pynchon
García Márquez's theme — romantic love that never fades, vows never broken; or, seen another way, the nightmare impossibility of permanently dismissing a determined suitor — struck Pynchon as "revolutionary," though his judgment that working in "love's vernacular" is a "daring step for any writer" may raise eyebrows among those familiar with genres and modes of writing in which these themes and treatments have never fallen out of fashion. García Márquez himself once said, with perhaps greater perception, that the revolutionary part of writing consists simply of doing it well: and he did.
Read more: Klein, Gabriel García Márquez: Una Bibliografía Descriptiva, A26.c.2; Pynchon, "The Heart's Eternal Vow," The New York Times; Bell-Villada, García Márquez: The Man and His Work.
First printing. (Bogotá): Editorial Oveja Negra, (1985). 9'' x 6.5''. Original white cloth. In original unclipped (no price) glossy white dust jacket. 335, [1] pages. One of 1000 copies of the special edition "cuyos beneficios ha destinado el autor para los damnificados de la tragedia del Nevado del Ruiz." Signed by García Márquez below limitation statement, with Bogotá notary stamp and signature below dated 27 Nov. 1985. Minor edgewear to boards and jacket. Small closed tears to midpoint of jacket spine.
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