[ 3 / biz / cgl / ck / diy / fa / ic / jp / lit / sci / vr / vt ] [ index / top / reports ] [ become a patron ] [ status ]
2023-11: Warosu is now out of extended maintenance.

/lit/ - Literature

View post   
File: 272 KB, 276x477, soledad.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
15700281 No.15700281 [Reply] [Original]

What's /lit/ opinion on this?

>> No.15700295

>>15700281
Very fun. A few hot incest scenes.

>> No.15700312
File: 11 KB, 232x325, marquez-13345-content-portrait-mobile-tiny.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
15700312

the best book you'll read for awhile

>> No.15700321

>>15700281
merits everything good that is said about it

>> No.15700322

>>15700281
>>15700281

A masterpiece. I found it very depressing, for the same reason I find the Dark Souls videogame depressing, or Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire depressing.
You get to see the golden age, the mythical patriarchs, how generation after generation the same mistakes are commited, how these cycles have diminishing returns, and at the end it all dies.

It's a book about the birth and death of a clan.

>> No.15700368

author was too horny

>> No.15700768

>>15700281
I prefer One Hundred Years of Solitude

>> No.15701466

>>15700312
>>15700321
>>15700322

And here i was expecting no serious answers when i got in this thread
Yep, a peak of universal literature.

>> No.15701483

>>15700281
It's really good, sometimes I think about reading it again, it's been a while.

>> No.15701496

>>15700281

A marathon read the first 30 pages or so and it was shit. The author can't bother to settle down. It's all "this crazy thing happened and then this crazy thing happened." It's a bunch of fucking nonsense.

>> No.15701866

The books knows how to show the sensation of feeling alone even with people around, the magical realism part makes you feel in a dream and then there is the suffering and broken dreams of every character.
It's a masterpiece. Go for it, OP.

>> No.15702404
File: 144 KB, 1000x439, metalocus_cien_anos_soledad_rivera_03.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
15702404

>>15701866
>the sensation of feeling alone even with people around
People always like to talk about the surreal elements and the connections to Latin American history, but this is what really stuck with me. That and the part later in the book where Ursula realizes that Col. Aureliano had gone his entire life without experiencing love.
I was impressed by Marquez's ability to write a book that's simultaneously a grand multinational epic and a personal tragedy. I've heard people complain about how many of the Buendias come across as being the same character, but I think that's actually one of the novel's biggest strengths. The family is doomed to keep making the same mistakes no matter what happens.

>> No.15702743

>>15702404
>That and the part later in the book where Ursula realizes that Col. Aureliano had gone his entire life without experiencing love.
I think you posted the same thing to me 1 or 2 years ago.
Many parts marked me, but the Ursula parts that were too much are: when she took away Remedio's daguerreotype from Aureliano and her sadness after her great-great-grandchildren playing pretend she was dead and it was her funeral.
I won't talk about the others characters, because the comment would be too big, but it's amazing how even the small ones have some great scenes or quirks.

>> No.15703518

>>15700281
Crónica de una muerte anunciada es mejor y no pueden probar lo contrario porque saben que estoy en lo correcto.

>> No.15703766

>>15703518
ok pero por que

>> No.15703778

>>15700281
Is it true that Márquez considered the English translation to be better than the original?