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Loading... Coronel No Tiene Quien Le Escriba (Spanish Edition) (original 1961; edition 2006)by Gabriel García Márquez (Author)
Work InformationNo One Writes to the Colonel and Other Stories by Gabriel García Márquez (1961)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Cayman 2024 - #2 - A Hard slog for me!! Really hard.... A good friend mentioned a few months back that Marquez was one of his all-time favorite authors....so, knowing i had several on my shelf, decided i would give him a whirl! This was the earliest work i have of Marquez...and i was hopeful both due to my friend's recommendation, and that i love short story collections. But it was dark....almost depressing. I was also unsure where these stories were taking place, or exactly when. There was much political content thrown about here & there.....stories of uprisings and deaths...events it was likely i was supposed to know about.......but i did not........none of it had accompanying context for me to help understand. So, i slogged through these stories of very sad souls.....and their sad lives......and aside from a few glimpses of nobility in purpose from a very few characters, I just wanted it to be over......pointless......like the characters.....which was likely the point. ( ) I have read so many of these short stories by Marquez, I have read 100 Years of Solitude probably a half dozen times, and even wrote my senior paper in University as a literary analysis of the book and its themes. That doesn’t mean I truly understand much of any of the symbolism or the story that runs underneath these tales of Macondo and the lives lived within the town limits. That fact notwithstanding, I love these stories so much. The characters, the town, the weather, the magical realism, the absurd happenings and crazy family ties; I adore everything that mixed together makes Macondo what it is. Marquez has a way of writing that allows me to picture every scene and feel the stifling heat of the afternoon. I feel like I can understand the characters and their motivations, and can become immersed in the narrative to the point that it’s quite jarring when they end so abruptly. A book of short stories which is far, far more satisfying than ploughing your way through the tedium that is One Hundred Years of Solitude. What Garcia Marquez has done here is depict the psyche of South America in fine detail through vignettes of characters such as the eponymous Colonel. Each tale is told with a delicacy that brings the characters and their deeply felt sufferings alive. The humid air permeates each scene, and the relationships between the characters are stretched just as tautly as they need to be. The writing has an elegant poise that is perfectly measured. The cumulative effect is to realise that South American suffering is far more psychological than anything to do with poverty or disease. The characters are tortured by historical events, unfulfilled desire, unrealised ambition, the iron bars of status, the burden of regret and that damn humidity again. Relato en en el personaje del coronel. Alguien que lucho con el Coronel Buendia de cien años de soledad y que despues de la rendicion aun esta esperando su pension. El personaje y el ambiente esta muy bien retratado pero personalmente me parece que la historia acaba cuando ya no sabia que mas escribir, no veo una direccion clara. no reviews | add a review
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Written with compassionate realism and wit, the stories in this mesmerizing collection depict the disparities of town and village life in South America, of the frightfully poor and outrageously rich, of memories and illusions, and of lost opportunities and present joys. No library descriptions found. |
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