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Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges, Argentina | 5 | 33.33% | |
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez, Colombia | 5 | 33.33% | |
The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Brazil | 5 | 33.33% | |
The Labyrinth of Solitude by Octavio Paz, Mexico | 0 | 0% | |
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05-11-2012, 02:05 AM | #1 |
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Latin America Vote May 2012 • The MR Literary Club
Help us choose the May 2012 selection to read for the MR Literary Club! The poll will be open for three days.
In the event of a tie, there will be a one-day run-off poll. In the event that the run-off poll also ends in a tie, the tie will be resolved in favour of the selection that received all of its initial nominations first. Select from the following works: Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges, Argentina Spoiler:
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez, Colombia Spoiler:
The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Brazil Spoiler:
The Labyrinth of Solitude by Octavio Paz, Mexico Spoiler:
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05-11-2012, 05:17 AM | #2 |
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Four good choices there but in the end I went for Love in the Time of Cholera.
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05-11-2012, 05:34 AM | #3 |
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I'm behind on my book club reading commitments. I think I'll sit this one out.
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05-11-2012, 07:18 AM | #4 | |
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I had to go with Gabriel García Márquez. From his biography:
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05-11-2012, 07:49 AM | #5 |
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I'd like something a little more "different ", so I'm going with Brás Cubas.
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05-11-2012, 08:02 AM | #6 |
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They are all tempting, but I've been meaning to read some Gabriel García Márquez for ages, so...
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05-11-2012, 11:20 AM | #7 |
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Very tempting list that draws me into this fine reading club! Love in the Time of the Cholera is one of my all-time favourites. So I wouldn't mind it if it wins but I voted for Machado de Assis to read something new. Does anyone know if there is a free Portuguese version anywhere?
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05-11-2012, 02:21 PM | #8 |
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05-11-2012, 05:09 PM | #9 | |
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Actually, I would have preferred Octavio Paz, but with votes piling up for Garcia Marquez, I did vote strategically, I admit - not that I do not like Garcia Marquez, but I'd like to go for the less familiar. |
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05-11-2012, 05:26 PM | #10 |
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05-12-2012, 01:18 AM | #11 |
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Paola, in which language would you read it, in Portuguese or Italian or English? Or to put it more general: how does the Italian book market treat books in latin languages like Spanish, Portuguese or French? Are they translated or are they simply imported, does your knowledge of Italian enable you to read them in the original? I know that your languages are closely related but I'm never sure how closely. Thanks! |
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In Italy I think it is possible to find imported books, though you'd pay a premium, and my guess is that you would have much more choice of transated texts - are you taking the plunge in Italian? |
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05-12-2012, 03:06 PM | #13 |
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No, I was referring to Italian because I understood that it was your mother tongue. Long time ago I learned Portuguese but as I've never used it afterwards I have forgotten most of it. But I kept an interest in these languages that derived from Latin.
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05-14-2012, 05:35 AM | #14 |
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05-14-2012, 07:19 AM | #15 |
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Well at least the list was pared down to three possibilities.
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