The colonel has no one to write to him

Gabriel Garcia Marquez wrote the novel "No One Writes to the Colonel" during his stay in Paris, which he had arrived at as a journalist, with secret intentions to study cinema, in the mid-1950s. But the closure of the newspaper he was working as a correspondent for plunged him into poverty, while he was re-editing this exceptional novel and rewriting it in three different versions, which were later rejected by several publishers before finally being published. After the baroque Fauconnerian in "The Storm of Papers," this second novel assumes another step towards austerity, towards economy in expression, and the writer's style becomes purer and more transparent. It is also, at the same time, 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.