Erika L. Sánchez, from Lessons on Expulsion: Poems; “Amá”
[Text ID: “In One Hundred Years of Solitude, / Márquez wrote that we are birthed / by our mothers only once, but life obligates / us to give birth / to ourselves over and over.”]
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― Gabriel García Márquez, "One Hundred Years of Solitude"
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[…] she kept the madness of her heart intact.
Gabriel García Márquez, from ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’, tr. Gregory Rabassa
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Do you ever get sad knowing that you'll never know all the languages and so since translators make choices (they have to) and things sometimes don't fully translate you can never experience every book exactly as it was originally intended to be read?
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A person doesn’t die when he should but when he can.
Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
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my experience reading one hundred years of solitude by gabriel garcia marquez
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“She felt so old, so worn out, so far away from the best moments of her life that she even yearned for those that she remembered as the worst, and only then did she discover how much she missed the whiff of oregano on the porch and the smell of roses at dusk, and even the bestial nature of the parvenus. Her heart of compressed ash, which had resisted the most telling blows of daily reality without strain, fell apart with the first waves of nostalgia. The need to feel sad was becoming a vice as the years eroded her. She became human in her solitude.”
— Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
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I'm trying to make a book cover for every book I read this year. Here's the first three :)
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Which classics character do u identify with the most? I’ll start; the primeval chaos monster cat with penchant for Vodka and chess
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magical realism: starter kit
multigenerational family
third-person omniscient narration
some good-old-fashioned prophetic abilities
incest
a big ass House
multigenerational trauma
background of political turmoil, with a revolution or upheaval in the second or third act that flips the family’s fortune
constant call-forwards
characters containing Multitudes so vast and yet so beautifully synthesized you’ll be forces to reevaluate the way you judge all other narratives
some form of communism/marxism
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magical realism summer reading list!!
gonna be reading these books over the summer & i’m really excited about it so i wanted to share. message me if you’ve read any of them so i can talk to you about them!
The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
The Murmur of Bees by Sofia Segovia
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin
The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune
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The world must be all fucked up when men travel first class and literature goes as freight.
Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
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