In its new era, 'TintaLibre' publishes an extensive conversation with the Colombian Nobel Prize winner in which he addresses his experience with music, the Caribbean, money, love, his books, and his ideas. EL PAÍS offers fragments of an interview available in its entirety in the magazine.

He was 67 years old and had just discovered part of his deepest roots. The excerpts that follow are part of an extensive conversation with Gabriel García Márquez that was recorded with my camera on May 6, 1994, in Havana, with the participation of the recently deceased journalist Mauricio Vicent.

The interview, unpublished until now, is available in issue 117 of TintaLibre, a magazine of culture and reflection that inaugurates a new era as a result of the alliance between EL PAÍS and infoLibre, and which will be on newsstands and bookstores starting this Monday and can be downloaded in the web. The 1982 Nobel Prize winner addresses his ideas without reservation and with an open book manner: a secret and overwhelming García Márquez.

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