Mexico City:
When journalist and novelist Elena Poniatovska turned to a film premiere in Mexico City, she did not know that she was about to see the literary quarrel of the century as two future Nobel Prizes had come.
It was on February 12, 1976, and Poniatovska wound was sitting next to Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Markez and his wife Mercedes, who was to see the documentary “La Odicia de Loss Andes” (“The Andes Odissi”).
Garcia Marx’s friend, Peru literary sensation Mario Vargas Lolosa was also participating in the screening.
“I was sitting next to Gabriel Garcia Markes.
Smiling, Garcia Markez went to congratulate his fellow writer, “but Slavas Lolosa punched him on his face,” Poniatovska said about the incident that was in the news and became immortal in a pair of black and white photographs.
A shocking Garcia Markez drowned for bleeding from the floor, Poniatovska famous for bringing a steak to her eye.
At that time, according to press reports, Slavas Losa shouted that the punch “did you do for Petricia”, referring to his wife, who is also his first cousin.
The exact crime has never been revealed, and both people tried to keep their cinema change calm, even gave rumors about matters.
Mexican journalist Julio Sheerr later revealed in a book that Vargas Losa asked him not to write about the famous bust-up.
The authors allegedly stopped speaking and separated for decades.
After more than 30 years, Slavas Lolosa proposed in the 40th anniversary edition of the classic work of Garcia Marx, in the 40th anniversary of “One Hundred Years of Solitud” and men were again seen publicly together.
At the time, which coincided with Garcia Markez’s 80th birthday, photo journalist Rodrigo Moya finally published his photos of the Colombian novelist’s Shiner from The Fight.
Gregory Rabasa, a translator working on books by Latin American veterans, told The Paris Review in 2019 that Garcia Markez led to the incident after Garcia Markez advised Petricia to leave Slavas Lolosa in one affair – an allegation could not confirm Poniatovska.
“I never knew anything, nor I wanted to investigate,” he said. “it
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