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Tag Archives: Marquez
LITERATURE: 100 Years – The Solitude of Jose Arcadio Segundo
Very very strange stuff happening. The banana company workers go on strike, led in force by Jose Arcadio Segundo, and the military is called into the town. After several attempts at compromise, a meeting is called for the workers to … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: 100 Years – Religion and the Past
With Meme’s lover, Mauricio Babilonia, shot in the spine beneath her window, Marquez foreshadows the child that comes of the slippery nights before that tragic evening, and of course, we expect her mother’s aghast reaction to her suspicions. Fernanda bundles … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: 100 Years – Character Analysis
Maybe this almost daily posting on 100 Years of Solitude isn’t such a good idea. I seem to draw conclusions from a reading, or am struck by something, then further on I’m finding that Marquez indeed does tell me clearly … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: 100 Years – Thunderbolt
Nothing like sitting in a dark garage to get the mind absorbing, turning over what has been read. Ursula said it, in speaking of Jose Arcadio Segundo and Aureliano Segundo, the twin sons of Arcadio (son of Jose Arcadio, Aureliano’s … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: 100 Years – Deeper Yet
In a former post, Reading Deeper, there was some discussion on the meaning of Remedios the Beauty, her oddness even amidst a rather strange family, and what she may stand for in the overall complexity of 100 Years of Solitude. … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: 100 Years – Character
Just when I thought I had it knocked, Marquez in his helpful way has just told me I am wrong. These characters do have thoughts and emotions whereas I found them delightful, intriguing, but rather cold. Through the dimming vision … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: 100 Years – Subtlety in Symbolism
Of which Marquez wants nothing to do with. He prefers to make his intrigueing symbols and metaphors bold and strong. Remember the indelible crosses of ash on the seventeen sons of Aureliano? Here’s what they were for: "During the course … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: 100 Years – Secrets
Needless to say, this book shall live on my shelves forever. May indeed, be crispy-fried along with me and buried in a tiny cherrywood coffin neath a rock out in the woods beyond my home. Or not really this one, … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: 100 Years – Reading Deeper
I am feeling clownish and ridiculous in my interpretations, unworthy of analysis of this great book that I in ignorance somehow justify in applying to my own small self. My thoughts are amateur and self-serving, and I am missing the … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: 100 Years – Reflection
Admittedly there are realities that have kept me from breezing through this novel at a quicker pace, but those same realities are simultaneously changing my perception of what I am reading. Just as a reader brings the past to his … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: 100 Years – The Ice
I had been wondering about the ice that fascinated Jose Arcadio Buendia when the gypsies brought it to Macondo. And the reference to it in the first sentence of the novel. I am not satisfied that it had no more … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: 100 Years – Transitioning
There is no doubt that with one hundred years to play with, Marquez need be a master at timeline in sequential, foreshadowing, backplay (my own term), and tieing everything in so that it runs as smoothly and accurately as a…well, … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: 100 Years – On Solitude
The terms solitude or solitary have been coming at me fast and furious, no longer hinted at by Marquez, but given us with small examples: "Taciturn, silent, insensible to the new breath of vitality that was shaking the house, Colonel … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: 100 Years – Symbols of Symbols
"Then Colonel Aureliano Buendia took down the bar and saw at the door seventeen men of the most varied appearance, of all types and colors, but all with a solitary air that would have been enough to identify them anywhere … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: 100 Years – Writing Technique
I am happy to say that I think I have incorporated a couple more layers of understanding into my reading. I can follow story, relate to it from some form of experience, find philosophical meaning, dig deeper into metaphor, still … Continue reading Continue reading
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