/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.15352898]

What's /lit/'s opinion of Garcia Marquez?

[Anonymous No.15352907]

>>15352898
One Hundred Years of Solitude is a masterpiece. Haven’t read anything else however.

[Anonymous No.15353005]

>>15352898
Only read Cien años de soledad and Crónica de una muerte anunciada. I much prefered the former, still got to check out El otoño del patriarca and his cuentos.

Not my favourite latin american or even boom writer by a far strecht though.

[Anonymous No.15353068]

>>15353005
Why not just write the titles in english?

[Anonymous No.15353423]

>>15353068
Porque onions español y se escribieron en mi lengua, puto gringo

[Anonymous No.15353554]

bah... kinda irrelevant for humanity. only valuable as a mere curiosity if you have nothing else to do or if your own experience is relatable to it, which only applies for the locals of the society where that comes from.

next topic please.

[Anonymous No.15353581]

>>15352898
Chronicle of a Death Foretold was a fun read, Noone writes to the Colonel less so. Not got around to 100 Years.

[Anonymous No.15354170]

>>15353005
>Not my favourite latin american
suggestions? literature is the only reason why I haven't given up on my Spanish yet. Languages that don't have compelling lit don't register on my radar. ayudame anon

[Anonymous No.15354186]

>>15352898
I would go as far as to say that the last chapter in One Hundred Years of Solitude is perhaps the best last chapter ever in literature. Or at the very least one of the major candidates.

[Anonymous No.15354291]

>>15354186

I have read many works for more than 20 years and I have never read a best last chapter. It’s awe inspiring.

There was a very poetic copy pasta circulating on /lit/ some months ago, but I’m not finding it.

[Anonymous No.15354401]

>>15353423
based

[Anonymous No.15354476]

I read chronicle of death foretold in class and was slammed with such bad takes over and over again that it completely put me off from enjoying the book. I've read a transcript of one of his interviews and he seems like a very interesting person though

[Anonymous No.15355055]

>>15352907
>One Hundred Years of Solitude is a masterpiece
I started it but i really disliked the beginning.

[Anonymous No.15355292]

>>15353554
words that can be said about Balzac, Dosto, Flaubert and many others. What a vapid comment.

[Anonymous No.15355304]

>>15352898
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U06jlgpMtQs

[Anonymous No.15355354]

>>15353554
literally every book ever made

[Anonymous No.15355572]

>>15353554
American comment

[Anonymous No.15355588]

100 years of solitude is the perfect book for every coomer.

[Anonymous No.15355642]

>>15353423
>onions español
I'm dead

>Spaniard saying "gringo"
Yeah, something's not adding up here

[Anonymous No.15356288]

>>15352898
i have only read 100 years of meme and mala hora.
I think is good but personally i dont like it. It feels like a kid describing some serious event and suddenly it change to something absurdly mature. Kinda like rick and morty, quirky adventure and then out of nowhere gore and violence and existencial crisis. Not my cup of tea tbqh.

[Anonymous No.15356311]

>>15356288
>comparing the great Spanish novel since Don Quixote to Rick and Morty

Imagine being this retarded.

[Anonymous No.15356315]

>>15354170
if you haven't read Don Quixote already you're wasting time. If you already did, read Rayuela.

[Anonymous No.15356319]

>>15356288
>. It feels like a kid describing some serious event and suddenly it change to something absurdly mature.
???

[Anonymous No.15356403]

I haven't gotten around to any of his books yet, but apparently he loved Pedro Páramo so much that he memorized the majority of the book, so his taste is good enough that I'm definitely going to read One Hundred Years at least

[Anonymous No.15356418]

>>15356288
>Kinda like rick and morty

[Anonymous No.15356420]

>>15355642
it's used throughout all the Hispanosphere.

[Anonymous No.15356431]

>>15356420
If I ever heard a Spaniard use “gringo” I would assume they are very confused

[Anonymous No.15356444]

>>15356431
It's a mutt-spanic term

[Anonymous No.15356451]

>>15356431
we're living in the age of the world wide wide. meme words are embraced.

[Anonymous No.15356467]

>>15356431
we're living in the age of the world wide web. meme words are embraced.
>>15356444
>t. mutt gringo

[Anonymous No.15356479]

>>15356467
Yes, I'm a Hispanic born in America. Only paisas and nacos say that

[Anonymous No.15356488]

>>15356479
No, it's a common word. It's colloquial enough that even some writers use it. The naco word is "gabacho."

[Anonymous No.15356500]

>>15352898
100 years of solitude is my favourite book

[Anonymous No.15356554]

>>15352898
I can never get through 100 years of solitude. Every chapter I feel like
>then jose arcadio told arcadio the whimsical tale of their grandfather aureliano and his brother arcadio. One may evening, all of the birds began singing backwards. This began the month of the backwards birds. The people of the town began to go crazy until a mysterious little girl came into town. She was 12 years old. Arcadio was in love with her and forced himself upon her, taking her back to his hammock. Suddenly, the birds began to sing forwards once more. Around this time Melquiades came back for the 5th time and brought with him a machine that turned blood into chocolate milk.

It has a cool aesthetic to it and at times the random whimsical magic is charming but the repetitive names are annoying and the story kind of just meanders around

[Anonymous No.15356592]

>>15356319
>One night in Barcelona, some friends were visiting us and the lights went out. Since we were the only apartment to lose our electricity, we called the electrician. While he made his repairs, I asked him while holding a candle, “How the hell is this a light problem?” He answered, “Light is like water. You open a faucet, the light comes out and registers on a meter.” At that moment, I saw in a flash the completed story.
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/08/14/garcia-marquezs-five-favorite-cocktail-stories/

You can see he gets his ideas from silly equivalences and a kids imagination to play with it, but he adds the mature theme of the reality that is not the same to play with water than with electricity.

[Anonymous No.15356605]

>>15356554
>>15356592
filtered by fucking García Márquez of all people lmao

[Anonymous No.15356730]

I remember liking Love in the Time of Cholera because I read it when I was a horny teenager, but The General in His Labyrinth is one of the worst books I've ever read and seems like a parody of the Boom's worst aspects.

[Anonymous No.15357069]

>>15355292
>>15355354
nope. while of course every book needs to have some form of local relevance, the great works of literature convey something beyond the mere social challenges and situations that are evoked in the work. to achieve this, a society must reach a certain level of social and cultural development, which enables it to be conscious of the general human constants beyond the petty issues of social organization and survival. the south of the american continent is far from reaching such state. it is actually going backwards since colonization.

>>15355572
america is actually in a similar situation but with a huge amount of technology to hide it.

[Anonymous No.15357138]

>>15357069
That guy won the Nobel Prize and 100 Years is a critically acclaimed novel on a worldwide scale. You can be from Spain, Russia, France, wherever and like this Colombial novel. Hell, I'm not even from Colombia and I liked it. One of the main purposes of literature is to help you empathize with other people, even if they're fictional. This novel goes beyond the mere "social challenges" of its context. Have you even read it? Identitarian nonsense is the death of literature. The idea that you must 100% identify with the characters or setting beats the entire purpose of art.

[Anonymous No.15357145]

Gonna hijack this thread and ask why Spanish anons here like Juan Rulfo. I've only read Burning Plains and it felt like a precursor to the automatic writing era on the Internet. Most of the praises directed towards him can feel a bit "laboured". Initally I chalked it upto a cultural and language problem but since I'm learning Spanish I should probably remedy my misunderstanding when I get to him.

[Anonymous No.15357258]

>>15357138
yes, what you say sure applies from the perspective where prizes and reputation, or simply 'liking' a work, are the criteria to judge its value. but works of fiction, in whatever form they are produced by a society, have a much more wide and fundamental social role as regulators of the stability of a society. it is only when this goal is properly achieved that explorations can be made in a wider field, that of the timeless human constants beyond the concrete issues of organizing the mere survival of the group.

you can measure the level where a society finds itself by the internal role that those international recognitions play in the self image that is given to the members of the society. in small societies, or simply in those that are hardly culturally developed, those cases of 'success' play an almost mythical role, divinizing the achievers and reaching a sort of sacralization that is not far from what was seen in past religious times or in tribal life around the world.

[Anonymous No.15357603]

>>15356311
The great Spanish novel since Don Quixote, uh maybe it is if you havent read Pedro Paramo.

[Anonymous No.15357681]

>>15356730
>Because I read it when I was a horny teenager

Lol. Marquez doesn't describe the details of the act, but does describe just about every emotional and social approach to sex there is in that one

[Anonymous No.15357728]

>>15353554

[Anonymous No.15357734]

>>15357258
sick backpedalling bro

[Anonymous No.15357747]

>>15357603
ok taquito we get it, Juan Rulfo is really good.