The Middle East Times - International
New York César Chelala Ernest Hemingway inspired many Latin American writers. Perhaps in none did he leave a stronger impression than in Gabriel García Márquez. Márquez was walking in Paris in the spring of 1957 when he saw, on the opposite side, the unmistakable figure of Hemingway. In one of his articles, Gabriel García Márquez recounts this moment, “I recognized him immediately, as he passed with his wife Mary Welsh on the Boulevard St. Michel in Paris one rainy spring day in 1957. He walked on the other side of the street toward the Luxembourg Gardens, wearing a worn pa...