About this title: "Majestic . . . superb. . . . A stunning portrait of the archetype, the pathological fascist tyrant. Garcia Marquez is as exorbitant as Melville and Dostoyevsky".--New York Times Book Review.
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780060919634ISBN:0060919639
Description: Acceptable. A readable copy. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact (the dust cover may be missing). Pages can include considerable notes-in pen or highlighter-but the notes cannot obscure the text. ******PLEASE NOTE****** Orders placed after Dec. 7 cannot be guaranteed delivery before Christmas unless you select EXPEDITED shipping! Thank you & Happy Holidays! read more
Description: Good. Ex-Library book-will contain library markings. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Avon Books
Date Published: 1985
ISBN-13:9780380017744ISBN:0380017741
Description: Acceptable. UNDERLINING. 61207 W21 MAY HAVE COVER WEAR, SPINE CREASES, HIGHLIGHTING, UNDERLINING & PAGES YELLOWED FROM AGE. FASTER SERVICE FROM US! ! ! read more
Description: Acceptable. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Book shows minor use. Cover and Binding have minimal wear and the pages have only minimal creases. A tradition of southern quality and service. All books guaranteed at the Atlanta Book Company. read more
By sisterimapoet,
West Sussex, WS, The United Kingdom
"Given to me by a friend as part of our seasonal reading challenge.
When I saw solid pages of prose, with no paragraphs, and sentences that run on for pages I thought I was going to struggle with this book.
But I really enjoyed it. I quickly found myself falling in with its tone and being utterly engrossed in the strange world that Marquez creates. And while nothing much happened, there wasn't a dull moment. It's all there - funny, sad, shocking, revolting. Page after page of feats of the imagination.
I read 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' a long time ago, and wasn't that impressed. But this blew me away."
"Romanul este probabil cel mai meticulos lucrat dintre toate cartile lui Marquez. Fiecare cuvant este la locul lui, fiecare descriere este puternica. Un paradox: datorita modalitatii in care este scrisa, cu descrieri deosebit de amanuntite si stufoase, uneori o fraza intinzandu-se chiar pe 10 pagini(!), lectura este antrenanta si rapida insa in acelasi timp este si foarte solicitanta si epuizanta, probabil din cauza textului extrem de dens. Unele descrieri au chiar o tenta suprarealista, multe sunt hiperbolice.
Ultimele doua pagini le-am resimtit ca fiind dintre cele mai bune incheieri pe care le-am citit vreodata. Asta poate pt ca pot recunoaste in ele chipul dictatorului care ne-a nenorocit natiunea si parca as putea subscrie si eu mesajului de aici. Aceste 2 pagini sunt disponibilele la cerere! :) dar nu garantez ca au acelasi efect de unele singure.
" ...inima i se zbarcise din lipsa de dragoste... pe masura ce umbrele noptii efemere se risipeau, i se aprindea in suflet lumia adevarului si in penumbra aurorei de la sase seara din casa pustie, se simti mai batran, mai trist, mai singur ca oricand in desertaciunea vesnica a acestei lumi fara tine, regina mea, pierduta pentru totdeauna in enigma eclipsei"
+ Nu am uitat de dictionarul botanic pe care urmeaza sa l completez. astromelia manioc camelia migdal omag agave malaga gardenia barsamina orhidee tamarin ghimber melisa camfor roinita cimbru mango glicina selva iasomie banan fucsii guayaba cacao maracas coca bija omag mangrove guanabana seiba orhidee de Envigado arbore de paine nalba flori de portocali nicanor"
"This is the tragic story of a dictator and the country he rules for 100 years. He is unwittingly installed in the seat of power by the imperialists, the fifteenth dictator in eleven years, and then he stays there for the next hundred. He realizes that he has no choice but to stay in power because if he relaxes his hold, he will either be killed or be banished forever to live a penniless, sad life, far away from his land. With every brutality he commits, he closes a door on reconcilliation. Till ironically, by the time he reaches the autumn of his life, the power structure around him wants him to stay, and he lives his last years, lonely, sorrounded by farm animals, detached from reality, watching the world on closed-circuit TV.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez tells a stroy that transcends time and location, poetically capturing the brutality and loneliness of a monster and his "realm of gloom". With sentences that run for pages, and no paragraphs, the book reads like more like a poem than prose. There were sections that I had to read alound to truly appreciate their beauty. And whenever, I read a page twice, I discovered a new meaning in it that I had not noticed before. Don't expect a typical novel when you open this book and you will not be disappointed."
"Have had this book on my shelf for over 6 years and have only ever been able to get through a couple of pages. However, as it is one of the 1001 Books (WHY?) I decided to try and plow through it. What a plow it was. Stylistically, it was difficult. Sentences were very long, verbose and the allusions were often elusive. Translation? I don't think so. Just not my cup of tea. Maybe I've outgrown the wonders of magic realism -- although I did love "Love in the Time of Cholera" and "100 Years of Solitude.""
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