Gabriel García Márquez is the greatest writer of the twentieth century, a Nobel laureate, and the author of world-famous novels: “One Hundred Years of Solitude,” “Love in the Time of Cholera,” and “The Autumn of the Patriarch.” García Márquez repeatedly stated that to write a book, you must first understand how to write it, and only then sit down at the typewriter. He “lived” in Macondo for more than fifteen years before he was able to write his main novel, the literary miracle of all time— “One Hundred Years of Solitude.” This anthology allows the reader to trace the path the author tentatively followed, seeing how the magical universe of Macondo gradually formed, from the first sketches in 1950 to the novel “In Evil Hour,” which served as a unique prelude to “One Hundred Years of Solitude.”