“要么写作，要么死去”

他是举世闻名的文学大师，《百年孤独》《霍乱时期的爱情》等传世巨著的作者，被誉为“20世纪的文学标杆”。

同时，他也是一个爱讲故事的孩子。

他说，他努力写出精彩的故事，只是为了让朋友们更爱他。

他是加西亚•马尔克斯。

《活着为了讲述》是加西亚•马尔克斯**自传。这一次，他亲自讲述自己的故事。

“下个月，我就满二十三岁了。我逃过兵役，义无反顾地每天抽六十根劣质香烟，天黑了，就随便在哪儿凑合一夜。前途一抹黑，生活一团糟……前行的道路上充满了陷阱、推诿、幻想，更要竭力避开无数的诱惑：似乎我干哪行都行，就是当不了作家。”

二十二岁的最后一个月，陪母亲回乡卖房子，这不仅是这本书的开篇，也标志着马尔克斯文学生命的开始。从那时起，儿时所有记忆深刻的人与事、贪婪的阅读经历、身边各种奇特的现实、向权威与成规挑战的勇气将他带进了“写作”这个甜蜜而痛苦的陷阱。

外祖母神奇的鬼怪世界、外祖父的战争故事、挥之不去的老宅记忆、求学经历中的奇遇与机遇、启发并滋养过他的记者生涯……搞不清楚幸福与疯癫区别的亲戚、一起经受过狂风暴雨考验的朋友、萍水相逢却难以忘记的过客……

贫苦与乐观，迷茫与执着，颓废与疯狂，经过记忆与文字的洗淘，闪耀着永恒的诗意的光芒。

No writer of his time exerted the magical appeal of Gabriel García Márquez. In this long-awaited autobiography, the great Nobel laureate tells the story of his life from his birth in1927 to the moment in the 1950s when he proposed to his wife. The result is as spectacular as his finest fiction.

Here is García Márquez's shimmering evocation of his childhood home of Aracataca, the basis of the fictional Macondo. Here are the members of his ebulliently eccentric family. Here are the forces that turned him into a writer. Warm, revealing, abounding in images so vivid that we seem to be remembering them ourselves, Living to Tell the Tale is a work of enchantment.