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Originally Posted by SpectralJulianIsNotDead
And I think I might be insane now because of it.
There's something indescribable about it that's sort of chilling in a spiritual way. Like Marquez took all kinds of literary archetypes and motifs and distilled them into a profoundly lucid text. So much so that I find everything in the book believable. It seems to true to be fiction.
My favorite book- The Brothers Karamazov seems to be a true representation of mankind on a psychological level.
100 Years of Solitude on the other hand, seems to take it one step further into a true representation of mankind and human history. I feel like Macondo is analogous to Mercerism from PKD's "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" or to the time of Christ in his essay "How to Build a Universe that Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later"
At times reading the book and even after reading the book I felt like I was actually part of it. . . an Aureliano locked up in the chamber pot room trying to decipher Melquiades' texts.
This isn't the first time that I've got that into a book. I felt while reading Crime and Punishment that I was being transformed into Raskolnikov.
I don't know though. . . maybe I'm just a fool speaking gibberish.
Can anyone relate?
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read that first when i was 12 then have reread it again a couple of times since. brilliant motherfucking libro, man. blew my mind. wish you could read it in spanish. gregory rabassa is ok translator, but the language of garcia marquez is like fucking fireworks. plus, there are a lot of jokes in it that supposedly only truckdrivers from barranquilla get.
this woman by the way is from barranquilla
read up "el olor de la guayaba" if you can find it. a great interview.
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Originally Posted by Пятхъдесят Шест
One of these days there will be a thread dedicated Latin American literature...
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and demonrail will say "magical realism! magical realism!"
unfortunately, this board has too much of an anglosaxon literary bent but one can hope that one day the kids will learn to hate eggers and love kafka. yeah, he wasn't latin american i know. ha ha haha. but he was a big influence and fuckit, we should read all from everywhere.
btw thanks to you i've been hunting down copies of bolaño's novels but i can only find in translation. which reminds me, i should call my mom & see if she can investigate some bookstores por allá.
have you ever read lezama lima's "paradiso" by the way? oh man... what a book!