The Mexican Novel, Pedro Paramo, inspired Marquez to write it. You can watch my video on Pedro Paramo which is a fantastic novel here. ua-cam.com/video/P4zgj6wnzAg/v-deo.html
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A great novella that I have read twice. "And further still, faint remoteness" (from memory!) One of the best pieces of descriptive writing I have read.
I really struggled to get through this book. Spent about a week with it and forced myself to read the last two hundred pages. Thank you for breaking the book down so clearly, I kept feeling like I was missing something. My main issue was keeping track of the characters because a lot of the names are similar. I know halfway through I lost track of whose who, or if it’s the particular translation I happen to have read. Either way, it was certainly an experience, but not something I’d read again.
Thanks for the review...I was born and raised in Cartagena Colombia...my grandma was exactly as described by GGM with Ursula...her sayings, wisdom, strength, charisma...she left this physical world 3years ago, but lives in each and every one of her kids, grandkids and family members...A REAL MATRIARCH!
Thank you for the journey through 100 years of solitude. A kind South American friend gave me this and three other books by Gabriel Garcia Marques as gifts some 25 years ago. You made brilliant insights into 100 years of solitude that bring back memories, thanks 🙏🏼
I wanted to finish reading the book before watching your video. I'm Colombian, had to read this classic many years ago when I was in middle school but didn't, so finally I did. I read it in Spanish and I have to say that I'm simply astonished, the language richness and the superb poetry is endless, poetry all over, I didn't get bored for a single minute which talks really high about the superior storytelling skills of Gabo, and the ending makes justice to one of the best opening lines in world literary works (along with Dickens' Tale of Two Cities). To me one of the best characters in the novel is colonel Aureliano Buendía, the one that the book begins with. He's courageous, he's predestined since he was born to be different and leave a mark, and to me he's one of the main axis which the novel revolves around. Of course Ursula is right there with Aureliano, she lives the longest and is a permanent witness of the rise and fall of the Buendía family. Loved reading this classic, can't recommend it enough, and I leave you with this short review given back in the day to Gabo's magnum opus: "One Hundred Years of Solitude is the first piece of literature since the Book of Genesis that should be required reading for the entire human race. Mr García Márquez has done nothing less than to create in the reader a sense of all that is profound, meaningful, and meaningless in life."
Aureliano was my favourite character as well! A brilliant alchemist, who turns into a general fighting for freedom and then just fighting for the sake of it. I read the translated version in English and it is beautifully written. I can only imagine how amazing the book must be in Spanish.
Just started the video. Please spell Colombia correctly, Colombia, not Columbia. Named after Cristoforo Colombo(Christopher Columbus) indeed a lost italian man, however he never set foot on Colombia itself.
I hate when people try to correct Columbia in English. Then you should try to correct the spelling in german Kolumbia, in polish and so on. I only care how it's spelt in Spanish, Colombia. Greetings from ColUmbia.
My wife is Colombian, so magical thinking and families that revolve around grandmothers make perfect sense to me. This book helped me to understand my in-laws and their ways. It shows how language articulates culture.
I read it the first time around ‘88 and was completely taken by it. An allegorical tome of the history of humanity and our eventual demise as the ascension of insects proceeds. The second reading I was grateful to look deeper into the wonderful characters, relate the events closer to human history, and follow the implanted record that threads the novel until the end. My favorite book and a masterpiece
I am bound to praise u for the rich content that u served us ..in as lucid way as possible ..in very less time .... really loved ur way of narrating it ....was able to discern it ...thanku so much
You know what my friend, I closed my eyes as I played this video. I was imagining everything you narrated here, and it's just so magnificent. I was like listening to an audio book. Satisfied subscriber here :)
Thank you sir! Actually we have a report later in our 21st literature subject and I have a hard time to understand what this story is all about. So this will be a big help for me to understand his work.
I finished reading the book a few days ago, and it wasn't until thinking over it after the fact that I realized: Úrsula was right about everything, haha! I enjoy character-focused narratives, and love magical realism, so I enjoyed it a lot. And the narrative on the whole struck me as really interesting in how it felt like it changed as one's own perception changes over one's life... as we follow the story of the Buendía family and Macondo, things go from childlike flights of fancy toward more serious events more grounded in reality, with time feeling like it speeds up until the literal hurricane pace it ends with. It really earns its place as a classic not only for Colombia and Latin America, but for the world.
Those aregreat insights and especially i like your take on how it starts as child play or fable and ends in deep shit reality of capitalism. I think you're right about how we see things differently as we age and i think this book reflects that beautifully. According to european enlightenment philosophy humans have finally matured after 15th century or so. I think it makes sense that book kind of mirrors an individual's growing up and the whole humankind growing up. Of course growing up basically means seeing the world as a more sinister place or phony in the words of Holden in catcher in the rye by Salinger. Loved reading your take!
@@Fiction_Beast Also meant to add I appreciate you mentioning the humor as well. There was a lot in the book, and a lot of reviewers fail to mention it, or maybe even miss it!
Thanks for the encouragement. I just finished reading 'The Promise' by Chaim Potok in which he criticizes the enclave in which Chassidic Jews grow in. In the 80's, his book 'The Chosen' was made into a movie and was a great success. Stay well.
@@Fiction_Beast I could sympathise with the conflicts religious people experience when their world and ideals are challengeed by the secular world. I enjoy this type of books.
I can understand how hard it must be when your worldview is challenged and the ground you stood all your life begins to shift. But if history has taught us one thing, is is that nothing remains the same.
I read this novel about 25 years ago.Although I could not maintain sequence of events,but one thing became quite clear during the course of reading this novel that how absurd is human life on this earth and the human attempts to make it worthwhile through his actions mostly stupid.
I just finished reading this book, I agree with your analysis. I love that you emphasized the role of the women within the novel. I felt that this theme of solitude connected with that of its women characters more as compared to men.
It's definitely a tricky read, I was into it for the first 100 pages or so then I got lost in the events and revolving door of people, there were just a few characters and moments that stuck out for me. Wish I could say I loved it but, it was still an interesting read, as far as magical realism goes, I think I enjoyed Midnight's Children a little more, though even that was a struggle to follow for the same reasons
I discovered a wonderful combo during the lockdown. Audio books and hiking. This book would definitely be a good candidate for listening to while hiking in the woods.
The reading / talking is so fast that’s almost no pulse between sentences. Sometimes I don’t know it belongs to this or that sentence 😂 Don’t we have to breathe after a line ? I wish I’d follow ❤
I was listening to this book and stopped in the middle because of the repetitiveness of the men's actions. I was thinking, "I can't go through seven generations of this stupidity!" And so I watched your video to see what I was missing and you tell me this is one of the book's main points --> The cyclical nature of men being stupid! Sheesh!! Also, I was very happy to hear your description of what the title of the book refers to. It now makes perfect sense and I appreciate your insight. Thank you so much!
I tried to read it few years ago and couldn't because it was boring . However i remember my father said it is amazing book and i was wondering why he said that .now im interested reading it again!
Thanks. you should make a story about " RABINDRANATH THAKUR" who got novel in 1913 firstly in Indian also 1st Asian someone from literature . Robi Thakur is one of the greatest novelist, short-story teller, poet, lyricist and only one who write two nation's national anthem I hope that you'll make one >>
for sure, I will at some point in the future will bring attention to Rabindranth Tagore. I'm also trying to read the Indian epic of Mahabharata. Thanks again.
Some have suggested that the novel is sexist, no if anything it exposed how terrible men are. Am I taking crazy pills or is this sentence really sexist
Mario Vargas Llosa golpeó a Gabriel García Márquez porque aquel le había contado a la esposa del primero que su marido le era infiel con su secretaria. Aclaro esto porque en este vídeo se afirma algo que no es correcto. Un saludo cordial.
In 1976, I attended the bread loaf writers conference. At a very young age, I met some remarkable writers. John Irving suggested that I read Marquez. Mark Strand suggested that I read Calvino and Pesoa. I was changed forever.
@@Fiction_Beast I'll address a bunch of issues here, instead of going around to each different post. I will definitely look for Pedro Paramo. Like you, I believe Twain is America's best. I believe number 2 would be Eudora Welty. More than once I"ve thought of doing a film about her. I write fiction and nonfiction. Lately, I have been reviewing books. Most of my film work has to do with culture and places. (Usually some combination of both.)
Why are you writing about perhaps the most famous magic realist novel and not a fan of that particulate style? And then to add there isn't much magic realism in this book!? ??? I stopped listening after that.
9:27 Lo que más me interesó fue precisamente la mitad del libro. Cuando empiezan las guerras liberales es cuando la novela toma un sentido histórico. Ahí fue cuando pensé que no era cuento lo que estaba narrando. De hecho, la matanza de las bananeras al final del libro, es un hecho histórico.
I found the real history part not as interesting as the rest, i guess because it's more history and less fiction but also perhaps I'm not well-versed in the history of the region so I felt an outsider. But it is a very minor issue. I agree the banana company signals the end of Macando.
Ok, but from who, or where, marquez cames out with the idea of magical realism....., not many exponents of this literature gender, any where else beyond colombia....
Omg, just read the book againd, you totally missed the point. There is not one single main character of the book, it's a saga about the entire family and the solitude of each of it's memebers. They check for tail because of inbreeding, how is that lost on you? If you do these videos at least read the book and then some opinions and do not sprea misinformation.
No one knows that GGM slept with Vargas Llosa's wife, both of the people involved have kept secret the reason for their violent disagreement. It's a shame that this video just profiting on this type of stupidity, anyone who has investigated well enough will know you did a sloppy job here.
This is a good take on the book but there are a few inaccuracies I would like to address. Starting with the name of the country. It is Colombia. Not Columbia. And Colon did not get lost. He just found something he did not expect. The trajectory he followed was 100% the one he intended. About the punch. You imply that that the reason for it was their political differences and “the fact” that Gabo slept with Vargas Llosa’s wife. These two were very close friends and both of them were socialists, like most of the Latin American writers of that time. Their political views changed after BOTH of them recognized the failure of the Cuban Revolution. For Gabo it was a bad implementation of Socialism. For Vargas Llosa it was a failure of Socialism itself. Gabo remained friends with Castro out of necessity (he worked for Prensa Latina a Cuban mouthpiece). The fact that BOTH Gabo and his wife remained friends with Vargas Llosa’s wife would suggest that there was no infidelity at play. Unless they were into threesomes :). Both men agreed on a gentlemen pact of not talking about it. Therefore we will never know for sure. The other major inaccuracy is the claim that Juan Paramo inspired 100 years of solitude. There is an anecdotal reference that the Mexicans use to make that claim. The truth is that Gabo went to Mexico after loosing his job at Prensa Latina . Up until then his books were a complete failure in sales. And he doubted his ability as a writer as none of his books were the financial success that would allow him to live as writer. He went to Mexico to work as a movie script writer. As part of his work he wrote the movie adaptations for two Rulfo’s books: "El gallo de oro" and "Juan Paramo" among other 21 movie scripts. while promoting the Juan Paramo movie he said nice things about Juan Paramo. which much later (in 1982 when he was given the Nobel Price) the Mexican media started to promote the false idea that "without Rulfo there would be no Gabo". As far as the interpretation of the book. Given that this is personal opinion it is normal to disagree. But there is a historical reference that Aureliano Buendia and many other Coronels in Gabo's books are inspired in his grandpa. Many of the stories in the book can be traced back to stories he heard from his grandparents during his first 12 years of life. Macondo is the name of the farm where he grow up in Aracataca. (BTW the macondo in the book is not and island. Not surrounded by water anyway. It is more “a place in the middle of nowhere”. In my opinion Ursula is not a clear main character. It is a very important one but I like to think of it like a metaphor. Imagine you are listening to a Piano Concerto. Ursula would not be the Piano. It would be more like a cello or the violin: A presence that is always there. That it gives it the structure from beginning to end and sometimes comes to the rescue. Melquiades has a similar role. But they are not the piano. As such this is not the story of a grandma. It is more the story of the absurdity of life. And the piano solos (solitude) is the vain attempt of the other characters to reach their goals that all end in failure (Kafka's influence?). But more troubling is the notion that the whole story is nothing but Aureliano Babilonia reading the history of his life when he finally figures how to read the scrolls. The final realization that his destiny was written and there was nothing he could do to ‘escape’ from it. As such you are left wondering what is the “reality” of the book. Do the events really occur or is this just a guy reading a book (the scrolls)?
Llosa is pronounced yo-sah. Spanish ll would be the same sound as Italian gl and Portuguese lh but these days most Spanish speakers pronounce it as y - at least in Latin America. Except in Argentina and Uruguay where it's pronounce as zh. But yeah it's never pronounced like l.
The Mexican Novel, Pedro Paramo, inspired Marquez to write it. You can watch my video on Pedro Paramo which is a fantastic novel here. ua-cam.com/video/P4zgj6wnzAg/v-deo.html
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A great novella that I have read twice. "And further still, faint remoteness" (from memory!) One of the best pieces of descriptive writing I have read.
I really struggled to get through this book. Spent about a week with it and forced myself to read the last two hundred pages. Thank you for breaking the book down so clearly, I kept feeling like I was missing something.
My main issue was keeping track of the characters because a lot of the names are similar. I know halfway through I lost track of whose who, or if it’s the particular translation I happen to have read. Either way, it was certainly an experience, but not something I’d read again.
Thanks for the review...I was born and raised in Cartagena Colombia...my grandma was exactly as described by GGM with Ursula...her sayings, wisdom, strength, charisma...she left this physical world 3years ago, but lives in each and every one of her kids, grandkids and family members...A REAL MATRIARCH!
Very cool! I really enjoyed reading your comment. I think every family needs a strong grandma.
Thank you for the journey through 100 years of solitude. A kind South American friend gave me this and three other books by Gabriel Garcia Marques as gifts some 25 years ago. You made brilliant insights into 100 years of solitude that bring back memories, thanks 🙏🏼
This is such a lovely comment. Thank you! 😊
I wanted to finish reading the book before watching your video. I'm Colombian, had to read this classic many years ago when I was in middle school but didn't, so finally I did. I read it in Spanish and I have to say that I'm simply astonished, the language richness and the superb poetry is endless, poetry all over, I didn't get bored for a single minute which talks really high about the superior storytelling skills of Gabo, and the ending makes justice to one of the best opening lines in world literary works (along with Dickens' Tale of Two Cities). To me one of the best characters in the novel is colonel Aureliano Buendía, the one that the book begins with. He's courageous, he's predestined since he was born to be different and leave a mark, and to me he's one of the main axis which the novel revolves around. Of course Ursula is right there with Aureliano, she lives the longest and is a permanent witness of the rise and fall of the Buendía family. Loved reading this classic, can't recommend it enough, and I leave you with this short review given back in the day to Gabo's magnum opus: "One Hundred Years of Solitude is the first piece of literature since the Book of Genesis that should be required reading for the entire human race. Mr García Márquez has done nothing less than to create in the reader a sense of all that is profound, meaningful, and meaningless in life."
Thank you for this thoughtful comment
Aureliano was my favourite character as well! A brilliant alchemist, who turns into a general fighting for freedom and then just fighting for the sake of it.
I read the translated version in English and it is beautifully written. I can only imagine how amazing the book must be in Spanish.
I want to read it but having a hard time deciding whether to read it in english or spanish?? Help
I also like the way you put your own understanding of the book, it makes your channel more interesting and unique 🖤
You’re very kind. I’m really happy to hear that. I’m still open to learn as I go along. So let me know if in any way I can improve things.
Suure :)
@@erinvale8988 there is magic realism in may day eve too.
I am Colombian and its a great book, you did a very deep analysis, right on!! Great channel!
Thank you! It’s a magical piece of imaginative fiction.
Just started the video. Please spell Colombia correctly, Colombia, not Columbia. Named after Cristoforo Colombo(Christopher Columbus) indeed a lost italian man, however he never set foot on Colombia itself.
so y care
I hate when people try to correct Columbia in English. Then you should try to correct the spelling in german Kolumbia, in polish and so on.
I only care how it's spelt in Spanish, Colombia.
Greetings from ColUmbia.
My wife is Colombian, so magical thinking and families that revolve around grandmothers make perfect sense to me. This book helped me to understand my in-laws and their ways. It shows how language articulates culture.
Awesome. There you go! literature is a mirror of a society.
I read it the first time around ‘88 and was completely taken by it. An allegorical tome of the history of humanity and our eventual demise as the ascension of insects proceeds. The second reading I was grateful to look deeper into the wonderful characters, relate the events closer to human history, and follow the implanted record that threads the novel until the end.
My favorite book and a masterpiece
I am bound to praise u for the rich content that u served us ..in as lucid way as possible ..in very less time .... really loved ur way of narrating it ....was able to discern it ...thanku so much
Thank you!
You have done a great job! Thank you. Your analysis is one of its kind 😀
Thank you so much for the kinds words.
You know what my friend, I closed my eyes as I played this video. I was imagining everything you narrated here, and it's just so magnificent. I was like listening to an audio book. Satisfied subscriber here :)
Thank you so much. I personally don’t like my own voice :)
You have produced a very good video here that would be of help to anyone about to read this wonderful novel.
Thank you sir! Actually we have a report later in our 21st literature subject and I have a hard time to understand what this story is all about. So this will be a big help for me to understand his work.
That’s great to hear! I’m glad I helped you a bit :)
Also if you have any questions let me know.
I finished reading the book a few days ago, and it wasn't until thinking over it after the fact that I realized: Úrsula was right about everything, haha! I enjoy character-focused narratives, and love magical realism, so I enjoyed it a lot. And the narrative on the whole struck me as really interesting in how it felt like it changed as one's own perception changes over one's life... as we follow the story of the Buendía family and Macondo, things go from childlike flights of fancy toward more serious events more grounded in reality, with time feeling like it speeds up until the literal hurricane pace it ends with. It really earns its place as a classic not only for Colombia and Latin America, but for the world.
Those aregreat insights and especially i like your take on how it starts as child play or fable and ends in deep shit reality of capitalism. I think you're right about how we see things differently as we age and i think this book reflects that beautifully. According to european enlightenment philosophy humans have finally matured after 15th century or so. I think it makes sense that book kind of mirrors an individual's growing up and the whole humankind growing up. Of course growing up basically means seeing the world as a more sinister place or phony in the words of Holden in catcher in the rye by Salinger. Loved reading your take!
@@Fiction_Beast Also meant to add I appreciate you mentioning the humor as well. There was a lot in the book, and a lot of reviewers fail to mention it, or maybe even miss it!
@@CatApocalypse Thanks man!
Lol, I had no idea about Mario Vargas Llosa punching him! 😂 But I love them both! 🤍 Loved your review!
This is my favorite book! Gabo is awesome ❤️
It's a great novel! It's one of many children of Pedro Paramo.
Always wanted to read the book and now I feel I don’t have to. Many thanks for your insightful read and excellent summary.
Thank you! Your my most loyal viewer, Sharon!
Thanks for the encouragement. I just finished reading 'The Promise' by Chaim Potok in which he criticizes the enclave in which Chassidic Jews grow in. In the 80's, his book 'The Chosen' was made into a movie and was a great success. Stay well.
Was it interesting to read?
@@Fiction_Beast I could sympathise with the conflicts religious people experience when their world and ideals are challengeed by the secular world. I enjoy this type of books.
I can understand how hard it must be when your worldview is challenged and the ground you stood all your life begins to shift. But if history has taught us one thing, is is that nothing remains the same.
i usually donot subscribe any channal but the way you explain this novel, I think you really deserve to be subscribed
i am in chapter 12 , i haven't finished it yet . i kinda noticed the cyclic character of time in the novel
I read this novel about 25 years ago.Although I could not maintain sequence of events,but one thing became quite clear during the course of reading this novel that how absurd is human life on this earth and the human attempts to make it worthwhile through his actions mostly stupid.
You did a really good job 👏
I just finished reading this book, I agree with your analysis. I love that you emphasized the role of the women within the novel. I felt that this theme of solitude connected with that of its women characters more as compared to men.
Names of the characters are repeated in generations so it became confusing while reading .
He wanted to shows the cyclical nature of existence. Hence the names every few generations.
It's definitely a tricky read, I was into it for the first 100 pages or so then I got lost in the events and revolving door of people, there were just a few characters and moments that stuck out for me. Wish I could say I loved it but, it was still an interesting read, as far as magical realism goes, I think I enjoyed Midnight's Children a little more, though even that was a struggle to follow for the same reasons
Thank you!
Excellent analysis! I'm from Colombia, and I can tell u really get it!! Great job 👏 👍
That’s great to hear.
wow, you have done such an amazing job here. No one could have explained it better - I give you that and thus subscribed.
Wonderful! Thanks so much!
Please do a review video of "Seven moons of Mali Almeida" by Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunaratne. It won the Booker prize last year.
I discovered a wonderful combo during the lockdown. Audio books and hiking. This book would definitely be a good candidate for listening to while hiking in the woods.
Way to go!
The reading / talking is so fast that’s almost no pulse between sentences. Sometimes I don’t know it belongs to this or that sentence 😂
Don’t we have to breathe after a line ?
I wish I’d follow ❤
Awesome analysis. Compelling. Great work.
Thank you for the kind words!
the Grandma supremacy... can't deny it now i have to read it.
The best novel ever written
My Favorite
Thanks!
Nice video Sir but sir can you describe magical realism briefly in this novel with textual examples!
Exaggeration, bizarre incidents, time contraction and many more.
I was listening to this book and stopped in the middle because of the repetitiveness of the men's actions. I was thinking, "I can't go through seven generations of this stupidity!" And so I watched your video to see what I was missing and you tell me this is one of the book's main points --> The cyclical nature of men being stupid! Sheesh!! Also, I was very happy to hear your description of what the title of the book refers to. It now makes perfect sense and I appreciate your insight. Thank you so much!
It’s a great book. This video is barely a scratch. Thank you!
Great explanation! Thank You !
Wonderful!
Guod 😊
Very helpful video
Thank you!
I tried to read it few years ago and couldn't because it was boring . However i remember my father said it is amazing book and i was wondering why he said that .now im interested reading it again!
Thank you.
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Great!
Thank you!
Thanks. you should make a story about " RABINDRANATH THAKUR" who got novel in 1913 firstly in Indian also 1st Asian someone from literature . Robi Thakur is one of the greatest novelist, short-story teller, poet, lyricist and only one who write two nation's national anthem
I hope that you'll make one >>
for sure, I will at some point in the future will bring attention to Rabindranth Tagore. I'm also trying to read the Indian epic of Mahabharata. Thanks again.
well done thank you so much
You are very welcome
😊😊😊
Great
thanks!
@@Fiction_Beast 🤓 keep it up
Some have suggested that the novel is sexist, no if anything it exposed how terrible men are.
Am I taking crazy pills or is this sentence really sexist
Sorry how come 5th generation was killed by their kids? I don't recall any kid killing their parents/grandparents.
It’s been a while.
I just finished the last chapter and felt so confused. But now everything makes so much more sense...
Brilliant!
Hve y read train to Pakistan? It is a emotional novel at last 👍
No I haven’t.
No body is coming out alive from this world.....
The gipsies are the first ones to come. xD
Mario Vargas Llosa golpeó a Gabriel García Márquez porque aquel le había contado a la esposa del primero que su marido le era infiel con su secretaria. Aclaro esto porque en este vídeo se afirma algo que no es correcto.
Un saludo cordial.
1:20 Llosa is a classical liberal.
Is it good to read in English?👍
i read in english and it was fine. Of course always better to read in Spanish if you can.
Actually,I don't know Spanish so,I can read in English 😊
As I said in my video the middle can get a bit slow but on a literary scale it’s a great novel.
I've heard that it will become a web series
In 1976, I attended the bread loaf writers conference. At a very young age, I met some remarkable writers. John Irving suggested that I read Marquez. Mark Strand suggested that I read Calvino and Pesoa. I was changed forever.
Pessoa is on my list. I have heard a great deal about him. John Irving is a great novelist so I assume you are an author yourself?
I’m a writer and filmmaker, but since Covid, I’m a reader and a music listener.
@@markspano3468 what sort of books do you and films do you make? It's always great to meet creative people
@@Fiction_Beast I'll address a bunch of issues here, instead of going around to each different post. I will definitely look for Pedro Paramo. Like you, I believe Twain is America's best. I believe number 2 would be Eudora Welty. More than once I"ve thought of doing a film about her.
I write fiction and nonfiction. Lately, I have been reviewing books. Most of my film work has to do with culture and places. (Usually some combination of both.)
Why are you writing about perhaps the most famous magic realist novel and not a fan of that particulate style? And then to add there isn't much magic realism in this book!? ??? I stopped listening after that.
you should read novels by Miguel Angel Asturias and Ernesto Sábato
9:27 Lo que más me interesó fue precisamente la mitad del libro. Cuando empiezan las guerras liberales es cuando la novela toma un sentido histórico. Ahí fue cuando pensé que no era cuento lo que estaba narrando. De hecho, la matanza de las bananeras al final del libro, es un hecho histórico.
I found the real history part not as interesting as the rest, i guess because it's more history and less fiction but also perhaps I'm not well-versed in the history of the region so I felt an outsider. But it is a very minor issue. I agree the banana company signals the end of Macando.
great
Ok, but from who, or where, marquez cames out with the idea of magical realism....., not many exponents of this literature gender, any where else beyond colombia....
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Good novels are novels which make you feel like a good to see the absurdity of it all.
Omg, just read the book againd, you totally missed the point. There is not one single main character of the book, it's a saga about the entire family and the solitude of each of it's memebers. They check for tail because of inbreeding, how is that lost on you? If you do these videos at least read the book and then some opinions and do not sprea misinformation.
Beautiful, in proportion, women also in that nation.....
You lost me at "Columbia"
Wish you to talk about Arab-african novel (season of migration to the north) by Altayeb Salih
Colombia not Columbia
Oops!
Wearing Columbia man can think that he's wearing you 💀
Disagree with wrong India's map.
as long as you dont diagree with me.
No one knows that GGM slept with Vargas Llosa's wife, both of the people involved have kept secret the reason for their violent disagreement. It's a shame that this video just profiting on this type of stupidity, anyone who has investigated well enough will know you did a sloppy job here.
We don’t talk about…..😂
Year of insomia and men litterally dying over a women's beauty got it
Existential crises, doomed search for a mate and search for meaning. You got it.
You got yours facts wrong
which one?
This is a good take on the book but there are a few inaccuracies I would like to address.
Starting with the name of the country. It is Colombia. Not Columbia. And Colon did not get lost. He just found something he did not expect. The trajectory he followed was 100% the one he intended.
About the punch. You imply that that the reason for it was their political differences and “the fact” that Gabo slept with Vargas Llosa’s wife. These two were very close friends and both of them were socialists, like most of the Latin American writers of that time. Their political views changed after BOTH of them recognized the failure of the Cuban Revolution. For Gabo it was a bad implementation of Socialism. For Vargas Llosa it was a failure of Socialism itself. Gabo remained friends with Castro out of necessity (he worked for Prensa Latina a Cuban mouthpiece).
The fact that BOTH Gabo and his wife remained friends with Vargas Llosa’s wife would suggest that there was no infidelity at play. Unless they were into threesomes :). Both men agreed on a gentlemen pact of not talking about it. Therefore we will never know for sure.
The other major inaccuracy is the claim that Juan Paramo inspired 100 years of solitude. There is an anecdotal reference that the Mexicans use to make that claim. The truth is that Gabo went to Mexico after loosing his job at Prensa Latina . Up until then his books were a complete failure in sales. And he doubted his ability as a writer as none of his books were the financial success that would allow him to live as writer. He went to Mexico to work as a movie script writer. As part of his work he wrote the movie adaptations for two Rulfo’s books: "El gallo de oro" and "Juan Paramo" among other 21 movie scripts. while promoting the Juan Paramo movie he said nice things about Juan Paramo. which much later (in 1982 when he was given the Nobel Price) the Mexican media started to promote the false idea that "without Rulfo there would be no Gabo".
As far as the interpretation of the book. Given that this is personal opinion it is normal to disagree. But there is a historical reference that Aureliano Buendia and many other Coronels in Gabo's books are inspired in his grandpa. Many of the stories in the book can be traced back to stories he heard from his grandparents during his first 12 years of life. Macondo is the name of the farm where he grow up in Aracataca. (BTW the macondo in the book is not and island. Not surrounded by water anyway. It is more “a place in the middle of nowhere”.
In my opinion Ursula is not a clear main character. It is a very important one but I like to think of it like a metaphor. Imagine you are listening to a Piano Concerto. Ursula would not be the Piano. It would be more like a cello or the violin: A presence that is always there. That it gives it the structure from beginning to end and sometimes comes to the rescue. Melquiades has a similar role. But they are not the piano. As such this is not the story of a grandma. It is more the story of the absurdity of life. And the piano solos (solitude) is the vain attempt of the other characters to reach their goals that all end in failure (Kafka's influence?).
But more troubling is the notion that the whole story is nothing but Aureliano Babilonia reading the history of his life when he finally figures how to read the scrolls. The final realization that his destiny was written and there was nothing he could do to ‘escape’ from it. As such you are left wondering what is the “reality” of the book. Do the events really occur or is this just a guy reading a book (the scrolls)?
So you basically disagree with 80% of what's explained in this video?
Do you have your own YT channel?
@@pdcdesign9632 No. I do not have a YT channel. Maybe I will. :)
The country is Colombia, not Columbia (0:30) 🤦♀
Llosa is pronounced yo-sah. Spanish ll would be the same sound as Italian gl and Portuguese lh but these days most Spanish speakers pronounce it as y - at least in Latin America. Except in Argentina and Uruguay where it's pronounce as zh. But yeah it's never pronounced like l.
I learnt this late. By the time I got to Venezuela I learnt to pronounce Llanos (yanos). Give Dona Barbara video a watch. It's a great novel.
This book can be summarized in two words:
COLOMBIAN MATRIARCHY 😁
wAmen...
Repetitive = cyclical.
Yes generations repeat the same thing over and over.
Thanks!