Gabriel Garca

Mrquez

Marquez

Gabriel Garcia
Marquez
Born 6 March 1927
Died 17 April 2014
Colombiannovelist, shortstory writer, screenwriter and
journalist, known popularly
asGabo
Nobel Prize for Literature in
1982
Major works
The Story of a Shipwrecked Sai
lor
One Hundred Years of Solitude
(1967)

A Shipwrecked sailor

A shipwrecked sailor
Historical Background
The story of a shipwrecked sailor is a work of
Non-fiction by Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia
Marquez.
It was originally published as a fourteen
consecutive day series in El Espectador
newspaper in 1955.It was later published as a book
in 1970,and then translated into English by
Randolph Hogan in 1986.The story is written in the
first-person from the perspective of a sailor, the
twenty year-old Luis Alejandro Velasco and was,
In fact, signed by velasco as author when it was first
Published as a book, was Garcia Marquezs name
publicly associated with the story.

A SHIPWRECKED
SAILOR
Summary
Seaman Luis Alejandro Velasco of the destroyer
Caldas is eager to return to Colombia after a
long stay in the United States. when the ship
sets sail, however, it is overloaded-in part with
contraband. When the vessel is caught in the
heavy waves of the Caribbean, eight of the crew
are washed overboard, together with much of
the cargo. After four days the search ends, with the
missing declared dead. However, Velasco found a
raft and remained in the open sea without food or
hope. After drifting in the sea currents for ten days , he arrives
with his raft on a coast that he later discovers to be Colombia. He is
received first with affection and later with military honours and a lot
of
money from publicity agencies.

A Shipwrecked Sailor