Writing to La Rambla Las Ramblas were more crowded and delirious than ever Getting inspired in La Rambla The relationship of Colombian writer Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez (1927-2014) with Barcelona has been very close and profitable. He arrived at the end of 1967 and would remain six years. His literary agent, Carmen Balcells, was the key. Here, he would write El otoño del patriarca (1975). He’d also explore the cultural and nightlife of the city. La Rambla’ d be in the spotlight. Here he observed "distracted gringos and succulent and almost naked Swedish women ". He included the street in his novel Solo vine a hablar por teléfono. Living the night Despite living in Barcelona's upper side like other writers of the so-called Latin American Boom, he visited the most modest neighborhoods. José Donoso, Bryce Echenique or Mario Vargas Llosa would share spaces and memories having La Rambla as a background. The most sophisticated nights took place in the now disappeared Bocaccio club on carrer de Muntaner. His Catalan friends would be at the same level as the South Americans ones. As an example, there were Josep Maria Castellet, the Goytisolo brothers or Juan Marsé. "Beautiful, lunatic and indecipherable" One of the memories that accompanied the Nobel prize were the cuplés that his grandmother sang. Hence, he attended a live show in Barcelona starring Spanish singer Sara Montiel. He found her music nostalgic and sad. A feeling that gave him a lot of food for thought while walking on La Rambla after leaving the theater. It was a magical night bathed in "a fragrance of sea roses" floating in the air. All this happening in a city that described as "beautiful, lunatic and indecipherable".