Gabriel Garcia Marquez wanted to destroy his last novel. It's about to be published.

Toward the end of his life, when his memory was in pieces, Gabriel García Márquez struggled to finish a novel about the secret sex life of a married middle-age woman. He attempted at least five versions and tinkered with the text for years, slashing sentences, scribbling in the margins, changing adjectives, dictating notes to his assistant. Eventually, he gave up, and issued a final, devastating judgment.
“He told me directly that the novel had to be destroyed,” said Gonzalo García…