You Will Eat Paper. Gabriel García Márquez: From Journalism to Fiction. Juan Villoro

NONFICTION | 2027 | 320 pages aprox

Gabriel García Márquez’s extraordinary imagination has its roots in a profoundly journalistic view of reality. Through anecdotes, memories of his childhood in Aracataca, his grandparents’ sayings, his years as a reporter and other significant events, Juan Villoro reveals how the Colombian Nobel laureate transformed everyday experiences, historical events and any curious detail he came across into stories brimming with magic and symbolism.

 The book explores how Gabriel García Márquez’s work as a journalist formed the basis of his literary oeuvre, particularly *One Hundred Years of Solitude*. Drawing on a course taught by Juan Villoro in the former house where the Colombian writer penned his most famous novel, the author offers a rich collection of texts that explore the relationship between observing reality and creating fiction, demonstrating that behind every fantastical episode there is always a fundamental and human truth.

RIGHTS: spanish PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE

BY JUAN VILLORO:

The Game at the End of the World
NONFICTION, 2026
Los héroes numerados
NONFICTION, 2026
No soy un robot
NONFICTION, 2024
La figura del mundo
FICTION, 2023
La tierra de la gran promesa
FICTION, 2021
Examen extraordinario
SHORT STORIES, 2020
El vértigo horizontal
FICTION, 2019
Llamadas de Amsterdam
FICTION, 2018
¿Hay vida en la tierra?
FICTION, 2014
Balón dividido
NONFICTION, 2014
Conferencia sobre la lluvia
THEATER, 2014
Arrecife
FICTION, 2012
El libro salvaje
CHILDREN’S, 2008
Los culpables
SHORT STORIES, 2008
Dios es redondo
NONFICTION, 2006
El testigo
FICTION, 2004
El disparo de Argón
FICTION, 1991