60/43-Είχα την εντύπωση πως η αγάπη όλα τα μπορεί. Τόσοι θυμωμένοι άνθρωποι.
Υπέροχο, τρυφερό, δραματικό, τραγικό. ( )

The titular story is good even if it kind of goes nowhere, but the rest I struggled through - juvenilia, the kind that Marquez perhaps regrets seeing republished. ( )

I for one, prefer his later styles much, much better. ( )

I wish there was a star rating for 'didn't quite understand it'. I was doing okay until "Dialogue with the Mirror". From there on either Marquez was writing under the influence of hallucinogens or I lost the ability to comprehend written English. Is there a key to Marquez? Something that can help me understand what's going on?

In "Eyes of a Blue Dog", for example: was the POV character actually the woman, narrating the story through the man in her dreams?

His writing is very beautiful and the title story is vibrant and memorable. ( )

the theme common in most of these short stories is death .....

besides the story of Innocent Erendira ,these four stories was interesting to me...

The third resignation.
i think this one is extraordinary,describes the fear of death,burial,solid ate and abandonment ....he has gone furthest in dramatizing the terror of burial.....

The woman who came at six o'clock
it portrays the conflict between good and evil,the innocence of Jose a restaurant owner,and Reina a prostitute who used to come at the restaurant at 6 o'clock,she murdered one of her clients,and wanted Jose to cover it,and lie about the time she arrived ,and say it was five_ thirty,the naive Jose agree to her request,after she succeeded in extracting from him a declaration of her love, and his promise to defend her,at the end Riena decided to make a big transformation in her life and leave prostitution,and seek a better life were she cant be victim any more.......

Death constant beyond love

about obsessiveness, political corruption and love that has no chance ....

Eyes of a blue dog
describes the feeling of loneliness and fear......
the two lovers in this story,a man who suffers instant amnesia upon awakening,and a woman who is madly chasing this man whom she meets in the dream.... she wanders through the city muttering, eyes of a blue dog.
marking her passage, hoping that one day that man will see her marks and remember her.......



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