![]() ![]() Joan Didion portrayed the San Francisco hippie scene that awaited them in essay-reports later collected in Slouching Towards Bethlehem, and many of the exodus would go to the open-air Monterey pop festival in mid-June, one of the first of such events. ![]() Meanwhile, in the US the so-called “summer of love” was getting under way, with college and high school students heading to California once their vacations began. The film Magical Mystery Tour came later in the year, while A Hard Day’s Night had been one of the LPs that kept García Márquez company as he wrote his novel. As it happens, Merseyside and Macondo – the fictional town featured in the novel – were far from being worlds apart: the Fab Four were moving towards a psychedelic surrealism not unlike magic realism in 1967. In a fascinating coincidence, the Beatles’ Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Bandwas released just two days later, on 1 June. ![]() It didn’t inaugurate Latin America’s literary new wave, also including Julio Cortázar, Carlos Fuentes and Mario Vargas Llosa but once translated Gabriel García Márquez’s seminal saga – a sexy, quasi-anthropological mixture of fabulous tales, lightly disguised history and seven-generation family soap opera – became the novel that gained “el Boom” recognition in the English-speaking world and shaped how it was perceived. A rural Colombian epic written in Mexico City and published in Buenos Aires, One Hundred Years of Solitude came out 50 years ago, on. ![]()
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