February 1 - March 31, 2017

Roger Williams University Library

Prepared by:

Professor Christine S. Fagan
Roger Williams University Library

And Birss Fellows:

Alexandra Gowrie, Class of 2017
Emily Stoeppel, Class of 2019

With assistance from:

Liz Hanes, Heidi Benedict, Megan Lessard, and Christopher Truszkowski
Roger Williams University Library

Items on loan from:

Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin Austin, Texas

Redwood Library Newport, Rhode Island

Professor Adam Braver, Professor Paola Prada, Jackie Katz And Natasha Perez, RWU Class of 2019 (and family)
Roger Williams University

Translations provided by:

Professor Lee Jackson and Angelina Ferrari, RWU Class of 2017
Roger Williams University Spanish Honors Society

Featured items:

• Cien Anos de Soledad (One Hundred Years of Solitude) facsimile of original typewritten manuscript (title page and page 1)
• Cien Anos de Soledad (One Hundred Years of Solitude) published in Spanish in America by Vintage Espanol, a division of Random House (2009). Originally published in Buenos Aires, Argentina by Editorial Sudamericana (1967).
• First edition of English translation of One Hundred Years of Solitude published in America by Harper & Row (1970)
• First edition of English translation of One Hundred Years of Solitude published in England by Jonathan Cape (1970)
• Facsimile letter dated 20 March, 1970 from Cass Canfield, Jr., Senior Editor at Harper & Row, celebrating the success of One Hundred Years of Solitude in America.
• Facsimile correspondence of Gabriel Garcia Marquez with President Clinton and Salman Rushdie
• Facsimile correspondence between Garcia Marquez and Ratu Kamlani, Assistant Editor at Time, regarding an article featuring Garcia Marquez’s idea of what could save humanity in the 21st century.
• Facsimile photographs of Garcia Marquez with family and friends, including Fidel Castro, Robert Redford
• Facsimile photographs of Garcia Marquez receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature and associated events (1982)
• Facsimile of Garcia Marquez’s Nobel Prize in Literature speech, typescript with annotations (English translation provided)
• Facsimile cartoon from El Espacio, September 1967, depicting the difficulties encountered in trying to get Cien Anos de Soledad through customs in Columbia.
• El Espectador. “Macondo: Territorio Magico y Americano”. Facsimilie of headlining newspaper article about Cien Anos de Soledad featuring the Buendia family tree.