17 Jun 06
Originally posted by SeitseGabriel Garcia Marquez sucks ???
Gabriel García Márquez sucks... the guy keeps repeating himself over and over again... overrated.
Perhaps you are reading a bad translation or your spanish is not so fluent ...
If you are talking about the style, yes, he almost always write on the same way ... and there are many novels related ( with Macondo, Aureliano Buendia and Ursula Iguaran ) between them ... but this is the " Garcia Marquez " literary universe .
One hundred years of solitude and Love in the time of cholera are classics !
18 Jun 06
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Originally posted by drjegcFunny you mentioned the only two good ones... for non-Latin Americans he may sound "magical" and colorful, but he only gives voice to the "mystical nature" rooted in our people, from Tijuana to Patagonia.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez sucks ???
Perhaps you are reading a bad translation or your spanish is not so fluent ...
If you are talking about the style, yes, he almost always write on the same way ... and there are many novels related ( with Macondo, Aureliano Buendia and Ursula Iguaran ) between them ... but this is the " Garcia Marquez " literary universe .
One hundred years of solitude and Love in the time of cholera are classics !
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Read JUAN RULFO, the true creator of "magic realism"... the one who all the Latin American writers of the so called 'boom' copied, including García Márquez. Now he IS a true star.
Maybe that's why the readers of Rulfo don't respect García Márquez that much but only consider him a good writer... plain good.
Edit. Be careful with the translation of Rulfo you pick... for native Spanish speakers (like yours trully 😉 ) his sentence construction and manage of times is quite complex. I recommend the French translation reviewed in 2004.