The colonel has no one to write to him.

There is no colonel to write to me Author: Gabriel Garcia Marquez Publication date: 2021 Book genre: Novels Publisher: Dar Al-Tanweer Number of pages: 208 Gabriel Garcia Marquez wrote the novel "There is no colonel to write to me" during his stay in Paris, where he had arrived as a journalist, with secret intentions to study cinema, in the mid-1950s. However, the closure of the newspaper he was working as a correspondent for plunged him into poverty, while he was re-editing and rewriting this exceptional novel in three different versions, which were later rejected by several publishers before finally being published. After the baroque Fauconnerian style in "The Storm of the Leaves," this second novel assumes a step further towards austerity, towards economy in expression, and the author's style becomes more pure and transparent. At the same time, it is a story of injustice and violence: the story of an old retired colonel who goes to the port every Friday to wait for the arrival of the official letter in response to his just demands for his rights in exchange for the services he provided to the homeland. But the homeland does not pay attention to him.