Gabriel García Márquez after his fight with the Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa in 1976, taken by the Mexican photographer Rodrigo Moya a few days after the incident. One of the great literary feuds of all time. It's not clear whether García Márquez and Vargas Llosa have made peace. But Vargas Llosa did allow an old essay of his praising his ex-friend's novel Cien años de soledad (which he had written before their fisticuffs) to be published as an introduction to the special 40th anniversary edition that we mentioned in our blog of March 27, 2007.
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Oh yeah. Writers are notoriously misanthropic people.
I don't like to talk about it, but one time Robert Frost was giving me lip and I had to put the beat down on his ass.
P.S. Why did they fight? Dish!!!
We want juicy details.
And we're too lazy to google.
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