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Do Books Belong to Their Writers?

Do Books Belong to Their Writers?

A Tribute to Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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Gabriel García Márquez, photo credit Alejandra Vega / Getty Images

A new Gabriel García Márquez book arrived in bookstores this spring— ten years after the death of the author.

It is not the first time such a thing is happening. The history of world literature is replete with manuscripts by both the living and the dead. We would have never known about th…

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