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This week Cartagena, Colombia, is getting the “walk-in-the-shoes-of-“blank” treatment from the NYT<\/em><\/a>, with a look at the city through the eyes (and hands) of Gabriel Garc\u00eda M\u00e1rquez, perhaps Colombia’s most famous artistic export (outside of Shakira). Though they note the author never really lived there for much of his life (his family moved there after his own short stint there), he now winters there and is sometimes seen sipping a cocktail at the nearby Sofitel hotel, or dining at La Vitrola, a cuban-themed restaurant specializing in Batista-era ambiance.<\/p>\n

So how much did the man make the city, or was it the other way around? “It is a city so pregnant with the near magical that, when Mr. M\u00e1rquez took a visiting Spaniard on a tour one day that included a Creole lunch and a stroll through the old city, it lowered his opinion of Mr. M\u00e1rquez\u2019s talents. The Spaniard told Mr. M\u00e1rquez, as he would later record in an essay, ‘You\u2019re just a notary without imagination.’\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This week Cartagena, Colombia, is getting the “walk-in-the-shoes-of-“blank” treatment from the NYT, with a look at the city through the eyes (and hands) of Gabriel Garc\u00eda M\u00e1rquez, perhaps Colombia’s most famous artistic export (outside of Shakira). Though they note the author never really lived there for much of his life (his family moved there after […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6794,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,2562,2577],"tags":[90,73],"yoast_head":"\n