Marquez is one in my holy literary trinity (along with N. Kazantzakis and L. Durrell). While there are many stories I could share, I selected this one because of bureaucracy – that which is excessively complex and hard, if not impossible, to engage with or tackle or overcome or… When do we give in to the feeling and thus idea of being powerless? And why?
First published as part of his collection Doce Cuentos Peregrinos, 1992, and in English in Strange Pilgrims, 1993, Jonathan Cape
A Personal Anthology 