[Many thanks to Peter Jordens for sending us this item and all related links.] Andrea Rodés (Al Día) writes that the Gabo Basis, in collaboration with RTVC Sistema de Medios Públicos and Podium Pódcast, is producing a five-episode podcast recovering Gabriel García Márquez’s The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor.
Fifty years in the past, Gabriel García Márquez printed “Relato de un náufrago” (“The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor”), a novel report wherein the Colombian author and Nobel Prize winner instructed the story of Luis Alejandro Velasco’s voyage on the excessive seas after falling off the destroyer ship he was crusing on.
Now, as a way to get well the significance of a “work that could be a masterful reference on how you can navigate between journalism and literature”, the Gabo Basis, in collaboration with RTVC Sistema de Medios Públicos and Podium Pódcast, from PRISA Audio, has determined to publish a five-episode podcast to retell this common story.
“The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor” is a narrative written in first particular person (representing Velasco’s voice) that the writer printed in fourteen installments within the Colombian newspaper ‘El Espectador’ through the month of April 1955 and that the Barcelona writer Tusquets printed in guide type in 1970.
The story tells the story of the one survivor of the destroyer Caldas, which on February 28, 1955 suffered an accident whereas touring from the USA to Colombia. As a way to rescue the castaways, U.S. forces on the Panama Canal combed the world close to the wreck. After 4 days of looking, no survivors have been discovered and the search was deserted. Per week later, Luis Alejandro Velasco appeared, who after spending ten days adrift within the waters of the Caribbean, managed to achieve land.
For unique article, see https://aldianews.com/tradition/books-and-authors/resetting-shipwreck
For extra protection in Spanish, see:
El “Relato de un náufrago”, de Gabriel García Márquez, se convierte en pódcast
El Espectador, 10 mayo 2022
https://www.elespectador.com/el-magazin-cultural/relato-de-un-naufrago
El Relato de un náufrago de Gabo regresa 50 años después en un podcast
EFE / El Nacional, 12 mayo 2022
https://www.elnacional.com/entretenimiento/el-relato-de-un-naufrago-de-gabo-regresa-50-anos-despues-en-un-podcast
Un podcast rescata la historia del náufrago de García Márquez
La Vanguardia, 12 mayo 2022
https://www.lavanguardia.com/cultura/20220512/8260332/podcast-naufrago-garcia-marquez-gabo.html
Escucha aquí el pódcast ‘Relato de un náufrago, una travesía del periodismo a la literatura
Centro Gabo, 11 mayo 2022
https://centrogabo.org/gabo/contemos-gabo/escucha-aqui-el-podcast-relato-de-un-naufrago-una-travesia-del-periodismo-la