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*No One Writes to the Colonel* was written by Gabriel García Márquez during his stay in Paris, where he had arrived as a press correspondent and with the secret intention of studying cinema, in the mid-1950s. The closure of the newspaper for which he worked plunged him into poverty, while he wrote in three different versions this exceptional novel, which was rejected by several publishers before its publication. After the Faulknerian baroque style of *Leaf Storm*, this second novel represents a step towards asceticism, towards expressive economy, and the writer's style becomes purer and more transparent. It is also a story of injustice and violence: an old retired colonel goes to the port every Friday to await the arrival of the official letter that responds to the just claim of his rights for services rendered to the country. But the country remains silent.