Crónica de una muerte anunciada
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9789580431046 (9580431043)
Publish date: January 1st 1996
Publisher: Norma S a Editorial
Edition language: Spanish
First of all, I need to thank Themis for recommending this masterpiece of a story. Themis is also the person who shall be blamed for the expansion in my TBR as I add all of Marquez's work. In the hands of another author, this story would have been four times as long, drawn out, and boring. Marque...
Gabriel Garcia Márquez was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982, following “Chronicle of a Death Foretold”, which was published the year before. This short novella (122 pages) was generally lauded as a masterpiece and translated from the original Spanish, it is clearly a complex literary e...
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The plot unfolds in one day and is given through testimonies of people who have some kind of connection with the death of Santiago.However one-dimensional the characters may be, they don't manage to evolve at all in the time frame which this novella gives them, and although the plot is not particula...