garcia marquez has dementia/
Alex Colter
recoignishon at gmail.com
Mon Jul 9 20:59:41 CDT 2012
If only Melquiades could come and dispel the whole thing... terribly sad....
On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 7:13 PM, Bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Y'all have probably seen this already but it makes me soooo sad.
>
> From -
> http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/09/brother-says-garcia-marquez-has-dementia/
>
> Brother Says García Márquez Has Dementia
> By DAVE ITZKOFF
>
> Gabriel García Márquez, the Colombian novelist and Nobel laureate, has
> dementia and is no longer writing, his younger brother, Jaime, has said.
> The Telegraph of London reported that in a lecture to students in
> Cartagena, Jaime García Márquez told the audience that Gabriel, who is 85,
> “is doing well physically, but he has been suffering from dementia for a
> long time.” The author often calls him to ask basic questions, Jaime García
> Márquez said, adding: “He has problems with his memory. Sometimes I cry
> because I feel like I’m losing him.”
>
> Gabriel García Márquez, whose works of fiction include “Love in the Time
> of Cholera,” “Chronicle of a Death Foretold” and “One Hundred Years of
> Solitude,” won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982. In 1999 he was given
> a diagnosis of lymphatic cancer and underwent treatment that Jaime García
> Márquez said had hastened his memory problems.
>
> “Dementia runs in our family and he’s now suffering the ravages
> prematurely due to the cancer that put him almost on the verge of death,”
> he said. “Chemotherapy saved his life, but it also destroyed many neurons,
> many defenses and cells, and accelerated the process.”
>
> More at:
> http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/09/brother-says-garcia-marquez-has-dementia/
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