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LITERATURE: Love in the Time of Cholera – Magical Realism
Ah, Marquez does not disappoint: Soon after she has spurned her long-time love, Fermina Daza comes into contact with Dr. Juvenal Urbino whom she will eventually wed. But the games must be played. They meet on a professional call he … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: Love in the Time of Cholera Tension Detensed
Why is it that Marquez can string me along so fluidly on a well formed cloud that threatens yet entices, and leave me in a hoot of laughter, my brows still furrowed in the drama of the moments leading up, … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: Love in the Time of Cholera – Narrator Input
How odd, or maybe it is just that I’m still in editing mode, or perhaps Gabriel Garcia Marquez meant this for a purpose: Florentino Ariza had often seen Lorenzo Daza gambling and drinking cask wines there with the Asturians from … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE & EDUCATION: The Pearl – Teaching Literature
Investigating the topic of my last post a bit further by googling just as had the googler below, I follow some links to some happy discoveries: Teacher directions to sixth and seventh graders at two different schools regarding their upcoming … Continue reading Continue reading
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NEW MEDIA & LITERATURE: Hyperfiction & Marquez
Marquez, I’m realizing, is a natural for hypertext. As in the entry below, the birds as a symbol and metaphor are causing me to continually go back in my reading to bring up a previous mention. Just as the begonias … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Love in the Time of Cholera – Birds = Begonias
As always, even as I read ahead my mind goes back to something read before; especially with Marquez. After a long time of watching from afar, Florentino Ariza finally takes a stand and walks up to the object of his … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: Love in the Time of Cholera – Leit Motif, Love and Politics
Love, of course, is the underlying theme of this novel, but it occurred to me that it is also a symbol with deeper connotations. The love Dr. Urbino and Fermina Daza have in their marriage is one that is typical … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: Love in the Time of Cholera – Relationships
Another thing I find in Marquez is an ability to put the human element into a very relative form amid the routine lives of his characters, so that we understand their behavior in more traumatic events. I love this segment … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Love in the Time of Cholera – Character
Gabriel Garcia Marquez just has a way with making the mundane exciting. His characters are carefully drawn out–I can imagine him sitting there thinking about them until he has someone whom he knows the reader will want to think about. … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Love in the Time of Cholera
Though I didn’t mention it, my amazon.com order came in yesterday and I’ve already added and moved around things on my reading list (lower right sidebar) to reflect the changes. It’s tough to stay away from them and I did … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Ploughshares – Poetry
In truth, I’m more impressed with the poetry in this issue (Vol. 30, No. 4) than in the short stories. I am certainly no expert at either writing or critiqueing poetry, but words and form such as this delight me: … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE & NEW MEDIA: Afternoon, A Story
I’ve added Michael Joyce’s Afternoon, A Story to my current reading, perhaps in advance of Patchwork Girl, another hyperfiction piece I seemed to be having some trouble negotiating–although I was intrigued by the presentation in its form. I had started … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: Ploughshares – Poetry
While it was my intention to breeze through these literary journals quickly, reading just the limited number of short stories, I do tend to check out some of the many poems when walking with the book in hand or just … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Prairie Schooner – Cream of the Crop
Well, I couldn’t get through all four stories in this Fall 2004 issue (vol. 78, no. 3) and though I still carry the guilt of that, it is in keeping with my new policy of forcing myself to give up … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Prairie Schooner, Fall ’04 – Wolves
For the first page and a half of this short story by Susan Fromberg Schaeffer, we are in the mind (third person omniscient) of a long-married woman who is both watching a fly and thinking about her husband. While it … Continue reading Continue reading
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The Lost Children: A Charity Anthology