7:15 Me ha quedado claro que no es lo mismo lo real maravilloso que el realismo mágico. Gracias. 16:12 Soledad (solitude). 17:50 Soledad ≠ solidaridad. Me gusta este enfoque, nos da una esperanza.
Thank you for this. I have the book sitting next to me and I must confess that I didn't understand it at all when I first read it. I have never read a magical realism book so I definitely was confused by how weird it was to have the lady floating and such, but that nobody cared lol. It's also clear now that I missed a lot of the historical context as someone unfamiliar with Latin America (oh, I could be a character, how isolated I am from world events as a Canadian...). I love the Spanish title much better than the English one - it is very beautiful to the eye for some reason. I like the word "solidad". I'm happy to understand it better. I appreciate you for making this.
I recommend reading The Courthouse, the introduction to William Faulkner's Requiem for a Nun. Over 40 or so pages, Faulkner tells us of the foundation of the city of Jefferson. Towards the end of that intro, he speaks of things that will remain after a hundred years and of things that will not remain. There are echoes of Jefferson in the foundation of Macondo, but of course the most important part of GGM's storytelling are the stories he heard from his maternal grandparents as he grew up as a child. I read Cien años de soledad the summer when I turned 17, and re-read it the following summer. I read Requiem for a Nun in 2009, about 30 years later.
What’s interesting to me is that I read the Metamorphosis right before I read 100 Years of Solitude. I l know exactly the tone you’re referencing Thanks for this analysis
Grandma and Kafka....maybe. I'd put more stock in the fantastical decima duels of Vallenato acordeonistas who surrounded Marquez in youth for primary fountainhead of cien anos. Was not the book framed as a Vallenato song of the most classic variety?
Me too. I think you have to know Colombian history first. I found the repeated names of characters confusing. And I'm not a naive reader, I'm 78, a former English major, and I've been reading my whole life, many thousands of books. Maybe someday I'll try it again. If it won the Pulitzer Prize, it can't be pointless.
@@gy2gy246 Yes look at it as the history of latinamerican colonialism told though a fanily. It's really anthropology and history told with some potery.
7:15 Me ha quedado claro que no es lo mismo lo real maravilloso que el realismo mágico. Gracias.
16:12 Soledad (solitude).
17:50 Soledad ≠ solidaridad. Me gusta este enfoque, nos da una esperanza.
Thank you for such an incisive and interesting analysis!
Thanks for the great presentation 🙏❤️
Thank you for this.
I have the book sitting next to me and I must confess that I didn't understand it at all when I first read it. I have never read a magical realism book so I definitely was confused by how weird it was to have the lady floating and such, but that nobody cared lol.
It's also clear now that I missed a lot of the historical context as someone unfamiliar with Latin America (oh, I could be a character, how isolated I am from world events as a Canadian...).
I love the Spanish title much better than the English one - it is very beautiful to the eye for some reason. I like the word "solidad". I'm happy to understand it better.
I appreciate you for making this.
"Cien años de soledad" One hundred years of loneliness.
Thank you 😊
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amazing work. thank you !!
I recommend reading The Courthouse, the introduction to William Faulkner's Requiem for a Nun. Over 40 or so pages, Faulkner tells us of the foundation of the city of Jefferson. Towards the end of that intro, he speaks of things that will remain after a hundred years and of things that will not remain. There are echoes of Jefferson in the foundation of Macondo, but of course the most important part of GGM's storytelling are the stories he heard from his maternal grandparents as he grew up as a child.
I read Cien años de soledad the summer when I turned 17, and re-read it the following summer. I read Requiem for a Nun in 2009, about 30 years later.
thank you! I will definitely follow your advice and read Faulkner
Thank you. I have been wanting to read Faulkner
What’s interesting to me is that I read the Metamorphosis right before I read 100 Years of Solitude. I l know exactly the tone you’re referencing
Thanks for this analysis
Thank you
Twice started 100 years but couldn't finished...
Keep at it. It's woth it.
Thanks man
You're welcome!
Grandma and Kafka....maybe. I'd put more stock in the fantastical decima duels of Vallenato acordeonistas who surrounded Marquez in youth for primary fountainhead of cien anos. Was not the book framed as a Vallenato song of the most classic variety?
well, there was one character, one of the later Aureleanos, who played the according all over the region so ...
Actually, el dorado means the golden one or thing.... Doesn't have to eb a personification
Am i the only one who didn’t get nor understand this book?
I found it quite boring and pointless 😬😬
Me too. I think you have to know Colombian history first. I found the repeated names of characters confusing. And I'm not a naive reader, I'm 78, a former English major, and I've been reading my whole life, many thousands of books. Maybe someday I'll try it again. If it won the Pulitzer Prize, it can't be pointless.
@@gy2gy246 Yes look at it as the history of latinamerican colonialism told though a fanily. It's really anthropology and history told with some potery.