04-22-2014, 07:03 AM
I remember reading Hundred Years of Solitude.
Couldn't write anything for three months.
(It would have been longer, but I have a terrible memory.)
Not sure what the original was like, but the translation by Gregory Rabassa was great:
From wiki:
"García Márquez waited three years for Rabassa's schedule to become open
so that he could translate One Hundred Years of Solitude. He later
declared Rabassa's translation to be superior to his own Spanish original.
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