It’s not that often NewMexiKen supposes that one Nobel laureate reviews a new work by another (with references to the influences of yet a third laureate — and Faulkner, a fourth). That’s what J. M. Coetzee has done with his review of the most recent fiction by Gabriel García Márquez, Memories of My Melancholy Whores.
To make it easier, here’s another link to Coetzee’s review.