Until August

by Gabriel García Márquez

“Memory is at once my source material and my tool. Without it, there’s nothing.”

Dracula, by Bram Stoker.

The Old Man and the Sea, Lazarillo de Tormes, and The Stranger.

However, it would take several days before Ana Magdalena became aware that the changes were not to the world but to herself. She had always gone through life without looking at it, and only that year upon her return from the island did she begin to see it with chastened eyes.

Borges, Bioy, and Ocampo’s anthology, The Book of Fantasy.

John Wyndham’s The Day of the Triffids,

Ray Bradbury’s Martian Chronicles.

preserve her freedom to choose for herself and not leave it to chance.

Così fan tutte

The Ministry of Fear,

Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year,

But she felt a little lost, for he seemed to be talking not so much to speak as to hide.

What made her most indignant was not having anything to reproach her date for. His only fault had been not trying to seduce her: not even a compliment on her radiant lioness eyes or her flowing conversation or her musical knowledge.

“Clair de lune”

月光

absolute mastery of an original theme he had not tackled previously in his work, and the desire that one day his readers could share

An editor’s task does not consist of changing a book but of making what is already on the page stronger, and that has been the essence of my work.