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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Chronicle of a Death Foretold takes readers on a rollercoaster ride through a small fictional Colombian town where honor, love, and absurdity collide in a way that can only be described as delightful chaos. The story begins with the impending doom of Santiago Nasar, a man whose fate is as certain as the town's inability to organize a decent wedding. The narrative unfolds with the precision of a Greek tragedy, but this is no ordinary tale of gloom and despair. What's most interesting is that our narrator's purpose isn't to solve the crime. Instead, he is determined to understand why no one was able to prevent it. Everyone in town knows that Santiago Nasar was to be murdered. The deed was done in broad daylight, in the town square, by the Vicario brothers who believed their sister had been dishonored by Nasar. People knew about the murder beforehand yet no attempts were made to intervene. And the Vicario brothers willingly surrendered afterwards. "Never," says the novel's narrator, "was a death more foretold." There are so many characters in this book due to the fact that the entire coastal town of this small South American village where the murder took place was an active participant. And what a bunch of interesting characters indeed! Also, emphasis is given to the importance of honor in 1950's Columbia. "The brothers were brought up to be men. The girls were brought up to be married...my mother thought there were no better-reared daughters. 'They're perfect,' she was frequently heard to say. 'Any man will be happy with them because they've been raised to suffer.'" The bunch of incompetent people performing Nasar's autopsy (described more like a massacre) was hilarious. There's the priest who had studied medicine and surgery but entered the seminary before he graduated, the druggist who took notes, and a first-year medical student who was in town for vacation. There were only few minor surgery instruments at hand, so they made do with craftsmen's tools. The autospy report also included the following observations: "...and in the midst of the morass of gastric contents appeared a medal of gold that Santiago Nasar had swallowed at the age of four...the deep stab made it look like a stigma of the crucified Christ...the encephalic mass weighted 60 grams more than that of a normal Englishman noting that Santiago Nasar had a superior intelligence and a brilliant future." I loved every moment with this book! Gabriel Marquez brilliantly takes the readers through an intricate labyrinth of surprises. The non-linear narrative keeps you guessing, leaving you to ponder whether the death in question is just an elaborate metaphor for the demise of common sense in this peculiar town. Este libro me lo han dado de lectura obligatoria en el colegio, y superando todas mis expectativas, me ha gustado. Mucho. Es un libro corto(mi edición apenas llegaba a las 120 paginas), clásico hispanoamericano del maravilloso Garcia Marquez. Desde la primera frase te atrapa y hasta que no ves el punto final no puedes salir. Queres saber mas y mas. Muy muy recomendado. A morte de Santiago Nasar está anunciada desde a primeira linha da história. Toda a comunidade sabe do iminente assassinato movido por vingança, mas nada nem ninguém o salva de seu trágico fim. O narrador imediatamente sentencia: “No dia em que o matariam, Santiago Nasar levantou-se às 5h30 da manhã.” Fatalidade, destino, o absurdo da existência humana. O que explica a tragédia que se abateu sobre o protagonista de Crônica de uma morte anunciada? Nesta trama de construção perfeita, García Márquez monta um quebra-cabeça cujas peças vão se encaixando pouco a pouco, através da superposição das versões de testemunhas que estiveram próximas a Santiago Nasar no último dia de sua vida. Em que e em quem acreditar? Como descartar a parcialidade das versões e “o espelho quebrado da memória” dos envolvidos. É isso que o leitor vai descobrir ao longo da narrativa sóbria e direta, cuja estrutura toma emprestado o rigor jornalístico da reconstituição dos fatos tão caro a García Márquez. Todo o tempo, porém, o autor mantém a poesia, a sensualidade e a beleza de sua história e de seus personagens. Gabriel García Márquez publicou Crônicas de uma morte anunciada em 1981, um ano antes de receber o Prêmio Nobel de Literatura que o consagrou definitivamente como um dos mais importantes autores contemporâneos.
In short, one expects from ''Chronicle of a Death Foretold'' another powerful dose of the fabulous and surreal. But behold! While in no way resembling conventional social realism, ''Chronicle'' is not nearly so fantastic as Garcia Marquez's earlier novels. It contains a powerfully plausible plot - a dream-like detective story, really, that pursues the questions of why and how two young men have undertaken a brutal murder that they actually had not wanted to commit. Is contained inCollected Novellas (Leaf Storm, No One Writes to the Colonel, Chronicle of a Death Foretold) by Gabriel García Márquez One Hundred Years of Solitude | Love in the Time of Cholera | Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Gabriel Garcia Marquez Collection: Love in the Time of Cholera, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, of Love and Other Demons, the Story of a Shipwrecked Sai by Gabriel García Márquez Has as a reference guide/companionHas as a studyHas as a student's study guideAwardsDistinctionsNotable Lists
A man returns to the town where a baffling murder took place 27 years earlier, determined to get to the bottom of the story. Just hours after marrying the beautiful Angela Vicario, everyone agrees, Bayardo San Roman returned his bride in disgrace to her parents. Her distraught family forced her to name her first lover; and her twin brothers announced their intention to murder Santiago Nasar for dishonoring their sister. Yet if everyone knew the murder was going to happen, why did no one intervene to stop it? The more that is learned, the less is understood, as the story races to its inexplicable conclusion. No library descriptions found. |
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Everyone in town knew a murder was to take place, but no one stopped it. Was the murder a "psychological accident" or an act of honor? ( )