In his memoir Vivir para contarla (Living to Tell the Tale, 2002), García Márquez explained that the novel was inspired by his grandfather, who was also a colonel and who never received the pension he was promised.
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Ripstein had collaborated with his son Arturo on several films, including the 1999 adaptation of Gabriel García Márquez's novel No One Writes to the Colonel and The Beginning and the End, adapted from the novel by Egyptian author Naguib Mahfouz.