www射-国产免费一级-欧美福利-亚洲成人福利-成人一区在线观看-亚州成人

US EUROPE AFRICA ASIA 中文
World / Latin America

Thousands bid farewell to Nobel-winning author

By Agence France-Presse in Mexico City (China Daily) Updated: 2014-04-23 06:58

Mexico bid farewell on Monday to its beloved adopted son, Colombian novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez, with thousands of fans filing past his ashes in a music-filled tribute to the Nobel laureate.

A coffee-colored urn containing his ashes was placed on a pedestal, surrounded by yellow roses - his favorite flowers - in Mexico City's domed Fine Arts Palace.

Fans streamed by to pay their last respects to the author of One Hundred Years of Solitude, taking pictures as a string quartet played classical music.

 Thousands bid farewell to Nobel-winning author

A boy stands behind a Colombian flag while holding a book on late Colombian Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez during a public viewing of Garcia Marquez's ashes in the Palace of Fine Arts in Mexico City on Monday. Reuters

Guests applauded when his widow, Mercedes Barcha, and sons, Rodrigo and Gonzalo, stood as honor guards at the ornate cultural center, where Mexico pays tribute to its late artistic icons.

The presidents of Mexico and Colombia delivered speeches to honor the giant of Latin American literature, who influenced generations of Spanish-language writers.

"We join together to pay tribute to the one who, from icy Stockholm in December 1982, touched the world by speaking about solitude in Latin America," said Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, referring to the day the author received his Nobel Prize.

Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto called him "the greatest Latin American novelist of all time".

"We Mexicans love him and will always love him," he said.

Garcia Marquez, known affectionately as "Gabo", died on Thursday in the Mexico City house where he lived for decades with his wife and two sons. He was 87.

Outside, thousands of yellow paper butterflies were blown into the air, a nod to the fluttering insects that follow a man in his masterpiece of magical realism, One Hundred Years of Solitude.

"I want to thank him for the pleasure he gave me in reading books," said Joseline Lopez, a 21-year-old Venezuelan medical student who waited in line outside the palace.

"One Hundred Years of Solitude will survive 100 more years in our hearts," she said, clutching three yellow roses.

Earlier inside, some of the guests danced as a three-piece band played folksongs from his native Colombia with an accordion, drum and guacharaca, a percussion instrument.

Thousands bid farewell to Nobel-winning author

Garcia Marquez first moved to Mexico in 1961 and it was here that the veteran journalist wrote his seminal novel, a family and historical saga that was published in 1967.

He was a leading exponent of "magical realism", a style of storytelling that blends fantasy and realistic elements.

The cause of his death has not been disclosed, but he died a week after a bout of pneumonia.

Honored in homeland

Garcia Marquez was also remembered in his native Colombia.

A small march took place in front of his childhood house in the Caribbean-coast region town of Aracataca, with people dressed in white and holding marigolds in his honor.

Santos will lead a ceremony on Tuesday at Bogota's cathedral.

On Wednesday, to mark World Book Day, Colombians will have readings of Garcia Marquez's novel No One Writes to the Colonel in more than 1,000 libraries, parks and universities.

The family has not said where the author's final resting place will be, but Colombia hopes his ashes will be divided between his homeland and Mexico.

(China Daily 04/23/2014 page11)

Trudeau visits Sina Weibo
May gets little gasp as EU extends deadline for sufficient progress in Brexit talks
Ethiopian FM urges strengthened Ethiopia-China ties
Yemen's ex-president Saleh, relatives killed by Houthis
Most Popular
Hot Topics

...
主站蜘蛛池模板: 97在线观看免费视频 | 欧美二区视频 | 美一级片 | 九九99久麻豆精品视传媒 | 91精品国产欧美一区二区 | 窝窝女人体国产午夜视频 | 特黄aa级毛片免费视频播放 | 大陆老头xxxxxhd | 成人黄色一级毛片 | 国产第一夜 | 免费看国产精品久久久久 | 在线a亚洲视频播放在线观看 | 亚洲不卡一区二区三区在线 | 国产九九免费视频网站 | 久久免费精品视频在线观看 | 久久精品国产一区二区三区不卡 | 亚洲欧美中文字幕在线网站 | 国产精品国产欧美综合一区 | 亚洲日本视频在线观看 | 久久黄色网址 | a级毛片免费在线观看 | 国产成人在线影院 | 高清黄色毛片 | 理论片黄色 | 免费观看欧美一级牲片一 | 91av综合 | 国产精品免费久久久免费 | 国产精品无打码在线播放9久 | 99视频九九精品视频在线观看 | 天堂视频网站 | 久久中文字幕日韩精品 | 伊在人亚洲香蕉精品区 | 男女视频在线观看免费高清观看 | 国产成人综合91精品 | 黄色美女视频免费 | 免费中国一级啪啪片 | 久久极品 | 久久亚洲私人国产精品 | 亚洲成人影院在线 | 精品中文字幕久久久久久 | 国产精品久久久久久久久免费 |