how can one man have such a creative mind? you know books where nothing ever happens? this is the polar opposite, every sentence is something happening, reading it the first time is an incredible experience, truly earned that nobel
I loved the ending.I watched one interview where he said his livelihood depended on the book being successful and I'm inclined to believe that explains why it's like that.
>usual bourgeois smutcall me when those sex perverts can write about something else than cooming made for roasties
>>23973250this book loses it's gimmicky appeal like 100 pages in when you realize none of it really goes anywhere and the story is actually garbage. much like house of leaves.
>>23973271how many nobel prizes did you won?
>>23973275I am Jon Fosse, so 1
>>23973250I thought it was pretty lame. I prefer Vargas Llosa, Rulfo, Cortázar, Macedonio Fernández, etc...
>>23973250>bones crunched like a box of dominoesYeah, things happen all right... fucking freak.
>>23973254That ending is beautiful and brutal. One of my favorites ever.
>>23973250It was a really good book.
>>23973250this is on my to-read list but wasn't marquez a spook? makes sense that he'd pull out all the stops
>>23973250I always thought that woman's boobs look like male muscular pecs
It is truly a masterpiece and by far my favorite novel. Hundreds of anecdotes ranging from hilarious to devastating, all of them enchanting but at the same time deeply grounded in the universal human experience. I think my favorite part is when the townspeople demolish the movie theater out of ignorance. >>23974057That's what boobs look like when a woman is lying flat on her back, anon.
>>23973250The House of the Spirits is also very good. Albeit a rip-off.
>>23974048>marquez a spookhe wasn't even allowed in the US. he was a certified leftist
>>23974146he was funded by the CIA though (see the pic in my other comment). they funded a lot of leftists in the 60s and 70s as controlled opposition
Love in the Time of Cholera is better
>>23974173>Love in the Time of CholeraIt's very good, easily one of my favorite novels, but also very different and not as enchanting imo.The fact he wrote both is what makes him such a giant. >>23974130I've been planning to read it, if nothing else so I can say I've read a "proper" novel written by a woman instead of YA slop like Flowers in the Attic.
>>23973250I have a copy of this book laying around but I googled the author and assumed that anything he wrote would be commie slop so I never read it
>>23973275>nobel prize meaning anythingLmfao.Didnt obama win a nobel prize despite being a war mongering negroid?
>>23974205Lol yeah they literally gave him a peace prize while he was actively drone striking people including civilians and children
I'm so scared Netflix is going to ruin this forever, but I can't not watch it.
>>23973250I tried reading that one twice and gave up around the mud-eating girl story. It's well written but goes nowhere.
>>23974251>It's well written but goes nowhere.It doesn't have to. Try thinking of the house or the town as the main character instead of the actual characters.
>>23974205>>23974209that happened after winning the nobel prize
>>23974302>However in the year after taking office, Obama ordered more drone strikes than Bush did during his entire presidency. The 54 strikes in 2009 all took place in Pakistan.He got the nobel prize in October of 2009 and had already been drone striking throughout the year, starting in January from what I can tell
>>23973250He's costeño https://youtu.be/ZoD9VQQ5gUs?t=28
>>23973250>reading it the first time is an incredible experiencedoing that now actually, although v e r y s l o w l y2/3rds in and I still prefer love in the time of cholera
>>23974956But , to give credit where it's due, the passage of the death of Jose Arcadio Buendia was incredibly beautfiful and one of the most moving paragraphs I've ever read
>>23973250Shit tier fantasy
>>23973436>Vargas LlosaRead one of his books and it was insufferable, maybe it was an outlier but it made me not want to read anything else by him
>>23974248You already know they're going to ruin it. You don't have to watch it. You shouldn't, really.
>>23974149>funded by the CIA do you have an actual source for this? as in unclassified CIA or state dept cables. the picrel doesn't count.
>>23975202the pic related in OP is an interview with joel whitney who wrote a whole book about it (pic related). it wasn't just marquez but also neruda and even painters like rothko. i'm not saying there is no literary merit in gabo but it's interesting to know that the agency was helping him along and it makes sense given what i've heard his style is like based on reviews i've read of his work. like i said, he's on my to-read list. maybe "asset" is a better term than "spook.'
>>23975202idk about marquez but fanon was well documented, there was even a thread on here when his handler, an ancient new england wasp, passed away a couple years ago
>>23975264>EL PAÍS has had access to over 100 declassified files via a formal transparency request lodged with the Mexican General Archive of the Nation. The dossier contains details of how García Márquez was shadowed at public events and private meetings, of photographs taken at his door when he received guests and an exhaustive record of his trips to Cuba from 1975 onward, when the author was drawn more deeply into the bosom of Castroism after a period of estrangement.https://english.elpais.com/usa/2022-01-27/when-gabriel-garcia-marquez-was-investigated-over-his-links-to-communism.html>García Márquez signed over the copyright to Chronicle of a Death Foretold to the Cuban government, according to a document produced by the Mexican intelligence service and dated March 17, 1982. The informant quoted in the files concluded that “Gabriel García Márquez, as well as being pro-Cuban and pro-Soviet, is an agent of propaganda in the service of the Intelligence Directorate of that country.”
>>23973271Lmao. What is the gimmick exactly? That he has multiple generations in one story? That he has a story? He literally follows every single one of these Buendia niggas to the grave. What more do you want?
>>23974205Well they didn't give him the literature prize, did they? Checkmate buddy
>>23973250Read this book while chilling at a nudist resort and the prettiest, most demure girl walked out right as I was about to close the book and leave. Really added to the immersion.
>>23974205Henry Kissinger won the Nobbel Peace prize lol. They also couldn't be bothered to give one to Tolstoy
>>23974120That's just was congolombians being congolombians.
>>23973250I am sorry but I am staring at the boobs.
>>23976982Same BOOBIES
>>23974962>the death of Jose Arcadio BuendiaWhich one?
>>23973250Tried to read this twice and was bored to death. I don't understand why people coom their guts out over it. LatAm literature seems to be extremely overrated in general, more well-meant than well-executed; Borges is really the only one worth reading (haven't read Bolano tho)
>>23977155founder of the village
Bump
>>23977186this. Most overrated tripe to ever find an audience.
> Love 100 years of solitude> Chole is good> Everything else by him is insufferableanyone else?
Just stopped at the death of colonel Aureliano Buendia. What a character. Forever reminiscing the childlike wonder of when he went to see the ice with his late old man
>>23973250Is there any other book quite like it? I don't think so
weather someone likes the story or not isn't the point really. It's significance lies in the fact that it tells the modern history of Latin American from the perspective of the collective unconscious of Latin Americans. It is extremely culturally important here because it's universal to the region. Yes it has ideas that are universal to all people, but it is very specific to the region. It's popularity spilled over into the Anglo/European world. I could understand why some of them think it's tedious or boring, it's telling a long history that doesn't pertain to them.
>>23973250 (๑ʘдʘ๑)!!! Awooooogah! Hamana-hamana-hamana!Booiiiiii~ng!
>>23977186Read Canalla Sentimental. You'll enjoy it.
>>23978392what's wrong with death foretold?
>>23974200Do you make a habit of letting the internet infect your brain with irony so that you can never enjoy anything in its genuine form.yeah, me too.
>>23973250I read it in early high school for english class. I don't remember it that well and it certainly didn't move me greatly. One of my english teachers said that high school curriculums make you read all these books that you're absolutely too young to appreciate, ruining them for you. He was right. Or maybe it just wasn't that good.
>>23974057That's only because your schema for pecs is warped by men who have gyno from taking steroids. Natty pecs don't get all weirdly bulbous.>>23974200I don't recall it having much political affectation.>>23976982Better than the book.
>>23976533so did Obama and Paul Krugman
