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Tag Archives: Marquez
LITERATURE: Love in the Time of Cholera – Character
Gabriel Garcia Marquez just has a way with making the mundane exciting. His characters are carefully drawn out–I can imagine him sitting there thinking about them until he has someone whom he knows the reader will want to think about. … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Love in the Time of Cholera
Though I didn’t mention it, my amazon.com order came in yesterday and I’ve already added and moved around things on my reading list (lower right sidebar) to reflect the changes. It’s tough to stay away from them and I did … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: 100 Years – Some Final Thoughts
I feel as if I am letting myself down in not producing an overall picture of this novel. It has been with me (more so than I with it) for a month or more, and one that I had delved … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: 100 Years – Resolutions
I need more time to come to grips with the powerful ending, fable-like and maybe moralistic, and as a point, must have had those of you who’ve read the book tittering with the "I know something you don’t" smugness at … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: 100 Years – Finale
I liked it. It was a good book. This two or three hours’ sleep sucks big time. Yes, I have finished 100 Years, but I need go back because the pace picked up, the thirst for closure overtook my patient … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: 100 Years – Purpose
A writer talks to a reader, tells him a story that cannot help but include a part of himself, a way of thinking that he cannot completely escape from, even in fiction. "Aureliano continued getting together in the afternoon with … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: 100 Years – Dealing with Death
Gabriel Garcia Marquez must have gotten quite a few bellylaughs from the dissection of his novels over the years, and God in His mercy may he never see mine. As the Buendia family is whittled down to the last precious … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: 100 Years – Maybe the Worst Solitude of All…
Fernanda, widowed by Aureliano Segundo, her children in a convent, a seminary, a school, alone now with Aureliano, the illegitimate son of her elder daughter, retreats back within herself when she finds no one to to immediately work for, no … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: 100 Years – The Flood
The rain of four years, eleven months and two days has devastated Macondo. Ursula has survived it, and the sun has revived her–as it does me–as a shot of adrenalin that sends her around the house repairing damage and desolation. … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE & WRITING: 100 Years – Using the Tools
It is a pleasure for a learning writer to recognize some of the skills practiced to perfection within the pages of a novel. One of my own writing flaws, that of the run-on sentence, has been played with and twisted … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Marquez’s Magic
Finally, someone else writing about Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and with the bonus of touching upon the magical realism aspect just as I am as well. Read Daniel Green’s (The Reading Experience) "Necessitating Judgment" and his reference to Adam Kirsch’s review … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: 100 Years – The Rain
"It rained for four years, eleven months, and two days." (p. three-thirty-nine) And so there is a plague of sorts upon the village of Macondo. And everyone awaits the "clearing." Aureliano Segundo moves out of his mistress, Petra Cotes’ home … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: 100 Years – Magical Realism Continued
As a young boy, Aureliano Segundo asks Ursula to see the locked room where Melquiades had stayed and had written tomes of undecipherable (to most) words: "He demanded so much, promised with such insistence that he would not mistreat the … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: 100 Years – Magical Realism
Marquez is a master of weaving fantasy into a novel of realism to hold the reader’s interest, allow him to accept or interpret, yet at the same time, doubt the credibility of our narrator. Is he speaking metaphorically? Is he … Continue reading Continue reading
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