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Tag Archives: Marquez
LITERATURE: 100 Years – Input & Output
As much as we put into reading and make it what it becomes for us, we draw a certain amount out and it becomes us as well. Aureliano goes through his childhood home, removing himself from it in bits and … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: 100 Years
I must say, I’ve come a bit down off my high since Jose died. I’m in the second half of the book, and besides some catching up on the new generation, there appears to be a political bend to the … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: 100 Years – Symbolism or Suspension of Belief?
Regardless of method of control, Gabriel Garcia Marquez is writing for the reader to give him/her the most opportunity to create. As I’ve mentioned, there is little color, and what is offered is intense: white houses painted blue or red, … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: 100 Years and a Month
Well, I helped start a writers group and now I think I need to form a book club. Or maybe just mosey on up to the library and join one. I’m stuck on the rainfall of yellow flowers after the … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: 100 Years – Among the Pats, a Pan
On the writing, as in most of my reviewing, I tend to post on a positive note–notwithstanding the fact that the books have been excellent overall–that it must appear I am fickle, even unreliable perhaps in falling in love with … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: 100 Years – Grounding & Narrative Structure
One thing I have noticed in this book is that Marquez chooses his words for a purpose. As I’ve posted before, the word "begonia" struck me the first time it was used, and then I realized it appeared several times … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: 100 Years – Meaning
Colonel Aureliano Buendia sends his mother Ursula a note: Take good care of Papa because he is going to die. Ursula trusts her son’s prescience and gets help bringing Jose Arcadio Buendia back into the house: "A smell of tender … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: 100 Years – Questioning Existence
Last night, I read beyond the point of Jose Arcadio Buendia’s death, but I keep coming back to it. There are things here that must be thought about. And too, this morning I consider replacing the tub caulking, and try … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: 100 Years – The Force Behind the Character
The old gypsy, Melquiades, is an important character to this story. He brings the wonders of the outside world to Macondo, and to Jose Arcadio Buendia. Because of this, Buendia holds him in the highest esteem, it seems to me, … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: 100 Years – Catching up with Background
I laid this book aside a day, knowing that a war was imminent and both for need to prepare myself for battle here and in reality, as well as a decided lack of interest in the politics of yet another … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: 100 Years
Ah, the prodigal son returns. Jose, who took off with the gypsies, Aurielano’s brother, has returned. A wanderer of land and seas, a big hulk of a man who has grown to almost match the size of his penis, which, … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: 100 Years
Unless two members of the Buendia family get to face a firing squad, page 96 of the Harper Perennial edition of 100 Years of Solitude includes an error in naming Arcadio rather than Aureliano as the man so honored: "She … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: 100 Years – Meaning through Humanness
Jose is distraught, his son Aureliano busy in the alchemy shop, his wife and daughter away, his inventions having proved nothing to him. He is wrestling with ghosts, that of Prudencio, the man he killed back in the old village, … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: 100 Years – Character
Jose Arcadio Buendia is a man of vision, a man of hope, and a man of science. He has the inquisitive mind that will ask the questions and look for answers. What man would look at the invention of the … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: 100 Years
See, this is why it is useless to keep this up as a literary weblog, for I will never be recognized as such. My general impression of 100 Years of Solitude thus far, summed up in one word: Delightful! I … Continue reading Continue reading
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