JGB's FALL 2017 CRWR 383
Posted in Gabriel Garcia Marquez on Oct 12th, 2017
In a novel so saturated with the fantastic, one fantastic element that stood out to me was the circumstances surrounding deaths. The two that stick out the most to me are the deaths of Melquíades and of Remedios the Beauty. The fantastic element of Melquíades’ death was not the actual death but the lasting effect […]
Posted in Gabriel Garcia Marquez on Oct 12th, 2017
One of the fantastic themes of One Hundred Years of Solitude is the insomnia plague that runs through Macondo. I found this so fascinating because it is a common illness that people experience and yet Marquez takes it and turns it into a fantastic disease that spreads through the town. He also chooses to make […]
Posted in Gabriel Garcia Marquez on Oct 11th, 2017
The novel One Hundred Years of Solitude was an extremely fantastical novel with so many forms of fantastic within. My favorite fantastical detail of this world that Gabriel García Márquez creates is the magical forest that once the men slash to get through, the plants already begin growing back. The forest is described as if […]
Posted in Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Quotations from OHYOS on Jun 30th, 2017
Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice. At that time Macondo was a village of twenty adobe houses, built on the bank of a river of clear water that ran along a bed of polished stones, […]