by Edith Grossman, Gabriel García Márquez
Marquez can tell a good tale, but I was not in sympathy with most of the characters in this novel which was populated by grotesques of every description. Bizzare in terms of characters, setting and story. He conjours up the the various scenes so they live in the mind but not a book I would recommend...
Take the disturbing tale of Lolita, add in the spiritual soul-searching of The Bridge of San Luis Rey, the horror of The Exorcist, as well as gorgeous prose, and you have this book. A man abandons his lover for another woman, who is struck by a lightning bolt and killed. His scorned lover, who used ...
I have always drawn parallels between Marquez and Murakami not only because of the common element of magical realism so discernible in their works, but also because of their talent for splendid imagery.But it goes without saying, there's a pronounced difference between their styles as well. While I ...
Yummy, captivating reading, from the very first sentence. There's a lot of blah about the book, just look around, plenty of reviews and opinions; everything is magic of course, and the story telling*, oh! the story telling is absolutely fantastic, so I'll just make a confession: I have a terrible, s...
It's a little bit mystifying to me that people get all hissy-fit-like about how 'The Golden Compass' is anti-religious when there are books like this around! I'm like, now THIS is an anti-religious book!Set in colonial Latin America, the story is told in Marquez' beautiful, 'magical realist' style. ...
This was my first reading of a book by Márquez and I don't have good memories about that experience. Maybe I was too young and thus unable to understand the writing style and the plot... What's certain is that I remained with the idea that I didn't like Márquez's books or his writing. That's why I'v...
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