One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel Garcia Marques | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0060929790 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0060929790 Global Overview for this book
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Journal Entry 1 by catsalive from Rooty Hill, New South Wales Australia on Wednesday, March 16, 2005
The story follows 100 years in the life of Macondo, a village founded by José Arcadio Buendía and occupied by descendants all sporting variations on their progenitor's name: his sons, José Arcadio and Aureliano, and grandsons, Aureliano José, Aureliano Segundo, and José Arcadio Segundo. Then there are the women--the two Úrsulas, a handful of Remedios, Fernanda, and Pilar--who struggle to remain grounded even as their menfolk build castles in the air. If it is possible for a novel to be highly comic and deeply tragic at the same time, then this one does the trick. Civil war rages throughout, hearts break, dreams shatter, and lives are lost, yet the effect is literary pentimento, with sorrow's outlines bleeding through the vibrant colors of García Márquez's magical realism. Consider, for example, the ghost of Prudencio Aguilar, whom José Arcadio Buendía has killed in a fight. So lonely is the man's shade that it haunts Buendía's house, searching anxiously for water with which to clean its wound. Buendía's wife, Úrsula, is so moved that "the next time she saw the dead man uncovering the pots on the stove she understood what he was looking for, and from then on she placed water jugs all about the house."
Journal Entry 2 by Loopylou127 from Hassall Grove, New South Wales Australia on Monday, April 4, 2005
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Thanks Catsalive sorry I missed you and you know how much I HATE being first :0P I'll edit this journal when I start (I have a couple of books ahead)
Thanks Catsalive sorry I missed you and you know how much I HATE being first :0P I'll edit this journal when I start (I have a couple of books ahead)
Journal Entry 3 by Loopylou127 from Hassall Grove, New South Wales Australia on Thursday, March 16, 2006
I'm Trying!! ;0)
Woosang is a little busy, gypsyrose02 wants to be skipped I'm going for BrisKJJ next. I'll rejournal soon.
Woosang is a little busy, gypsyrose02 wants to be skipped I'm going for BrisKJJ next. I'll rejournal soon.
Ylice, You have now had this book for over 2 years. I would like it returned to me. Please contact me ASAP.
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