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Loading... Cien Anos de Soledadby Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. GGM isn't for everyone or anytime. I've been fortunate to read him at times when I've been able to savour the richness, the weird liquidness of his prose. Cien Años delighted me again. It took me a month, and it may take me longer next time, but that's the thing: there will be a next time. This isn't a book you're done with; it's a story you sort of relish. ( )"...and her soul brightened with the nostalgia of hr lost dreams." (p.392) Garcia Marquez can bring words to life - e.g. talking about Melquiades: "...although in the last days he lost his appetite and fed only on vegetables. He soon acquired the forlorn look that one sees in vegetarians." That sentence made me laugh, do I look forlorn? Realizing at the end that Melquiades was the chronicler of the family - and the one who ties the first to the last. Excellent read, one that probably needs a reread (or three) to appreciate fully This was the first "ficciones" that I read. It made me fall in love with South American literature, a reality so different than our own. Das schöne Leben in der Provinz: Das ist wirklich ein Klassiker. Nicht etwa, weil das Buch alt ist oder besonders berühmt. Der Autor hat danach noch viele erfolgreiche Bücher veröffentlicht, und so ist dieses Werk zu unrecht etwas in den Hintergrund geraten. Es ist ein Klassiker, weil es eine Unmenge an klassischen Geschichten enthält, einen Fundus, aus dem man sich immer wieder bedienen kann, und der als Vorlage für vielleicht ein Dutzend Romane problemlos reichen könnte. Erzählt wird das Schicksal eines Dorfes, und damit auch einer großen Famillie, irgendwo im Nirgendwo Lateinamerikas. Man merkt eigentlich nicht, wie die Zeit vergeht - es sei denn in der Abfolge der verschiedenen Generationen. Aber auch wenn es tiefste Provinz ist, wo die Einwohner die Dramatik der Geschichte nur durch gelegentliche Botschaften, durch seltene Ausblicke in die Welt erfahren, hier passieren wirklich spannende Dinge: Menschen lieben, sterben, kämpfen um ihr Glück, bekommen Kinder, werden in Ehren alt oder verrückt, haben Erfolg oder scheitern. In den intensivsten Momenten des Buches haben sie Sehnsucht. Das Buch wird auch sprachlich sehr gelobt, hier muss ich aber sagen, das der Rezensent der Muttersprache des Autors, also dem Spanisch, leider nicht mächtig ist, also darüber nur schwer eine Aussage treffen kann. Die deutsche Übersetzung liest sich schön, auch wenn es nicht immer einfach ist, die vielen Personen, Namen und Geschichten immer auseinander zu halten. Wie schon gesagt, ein Klassiker. "One Hundred Years of Solitude" is a fascinating allegory of the unconscious -- a world of magical and mythical dreamscapes gradually reduced to the mundaneness of ordinary life. The work celebrates the fiery energy of creative expression, but also the dissipation of that energy. By the end of the novel, the reader is drawn not to the story particularly but to the imagination behind the story. We are left to contemplate the mysterious relationship between imagination and actuality. Does the profound impression by the author's imagination constitute something real? The author presumably and resoundingly says yes, as the final chapters, pages, and sentences inch towards actualization ( completion! wholeness! ). Only in decline and death can the imagination's creation be actualized -- a stirring of the soul to a greater awareness and love.
[García Márquez] creates a continuum, a web of connections and relationships. However bizarre or grotesque some particulars may be, the larger effect is one of great gusto and good humor and, even more, of sanity and compassion. The author seems to be letting his people half-dream and half-remember their own story and what is best, he is wise enough not to offer excuses for the way they do it. No excuse is really necessary. For Macondo is no never-never land. Its inhabitants do suffer, grow old and die, but in their own way.
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0060883286, Paperback)One Hundred Years of Solitude tells the story of the rise and fall, birth and death of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family. Inventive, amusing, magnetic, sad, and alive with unforgettable men and women -- brimming with truth, compassion, and a lyrical magic that strikes the soul -- this novel is a masterpiece in the art of fiction. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:04 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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