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Originally Posted by jocampo
Having said that, I'm surprised not many views on this thread/news. He was one of the greatest writers of modern history. "Cien Anos de Soledad" is a classic.
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I've always meant to see
La langosta azul, the short film that Marquez directed and wrote in the '50s.
It's on Vimeo, so I'll watch in his honor when I get home this afternoon.
Somehow, I missed your being from Columbia; one of my good friends is from there. She also wired and snaked my first racks of synths back in the days when keyboardists like me needed monoliths to play sessions. She had to deal with a lot of sexism back when female engineers were rare (even though she's one of the best engineers I've ever met).
I read Marquez decades ago and understand his importance (esp. in terms of innovation), but I didn't respond to this thread immediately because I'm not as connected to him as I am to certain other writers (Borges, Cortazar) -- possibly because I read
One Hundred Years of Solitude in English translation and don't have your knowledge of the beauty of his language.
I haven't kept reading him for the same reason that I prefer Ovid to Homer: not because the writers I prefer are better, but because he paints murals and I'm attuned to decadent miniaturists.