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Subject: Obit: Gabriel Garcia Marquez From: Mrrzy Date: 07 May 14 - 03:24 PM Shocked, shocked there was no thread on him. I am currently rereading 100 years of solitude, still IMHO the best book ever translated into English. |
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Subject: RE: Obit: Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1927-2014) From: GUEST,# Date: 07 May 14 - 04:05 PM "If I knew that today would be the last time I'd see you, I would hug you tight and pray the Lord be the keeper of your soul. If I knew that this would be the last time you pass through this door, I'd embrace you, kiss you, and call you back for one more. If I knew that this would be the last time I would hear your voice, I'd take hold of each word to be able to hear it over and over again. If I knew this is the last time I see you, I'd tell you I love you, and would not just assume foolishly you know it already." Gabriel García Márquez I agree with you, Mrrzy. However, I'd suggest The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World is his best short story. I posted a link to it back in mid-April when I read of his death, but don't recall which thread. |
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Subject: RE: Obit: Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1927-2014) From: Q (Frank Staplin) Date: 07 May 14 - 04:06 PM I also liked "Love in the Time of Cholera. The film was excellent. Filmed in Colombia. Saw it recently, and just checked- the French-English edition available in Canada used for under $5.00 I will probably order. |
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Subject: RE: Obit: Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1927-2014) From: GUEST,# Date: 07 May 14 - 04:15 PM Another great book, Q, and it's good to be reminded of it. I didn't see the movie, but thanks to your reminder I will search for it. |
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Subject: RE: Obit: Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1927-2014) From: Stilly River Sage Date: 07 May 14 - 04:19 PM No One Writes to the Colonel was a good set of short stories. And One Hundred Years of Solitude was the introduction to magical realism for many English-speaking readers. He was also an excellent journalist and I read lots of his essays over the years. I think it was the New York Times and high-end journals. He must have quietly stopped writing, I haven't thought about it but it has been a while since I saw any of his work. SRS |
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Subject: RE: Obit: Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1927-2014) From: maeve Date: 07 May 14 - 04:37 PM Gabriel García Márquez, Nobel Prize-Winning Author, Dies There are many online reports besides the first I posted. Here's another: Obituary: Gabriel Garcia Marquez From the above link, for Mrrzy: "...In 1965, the idea for the first chapter of One Hundred Years of Solitude came to him while he was driving to Acapulco. He turned the car, drove home and locked himself into his room with six packets of cigarettes a day for company. He emerged 18 months later to find his family $12,000 in debt. Fortunately, he had thirteen hundred pages of phenomenal best-selling text in his hands. The novel's first printing in Spanish sold out within a week, and during the next thirty years One Hundred Years of Solitude sold more than twenty million copies and was translated into more than thirty languages. The New York Times called it the first piece of literature since the Book of Genesis that should be required reading for the entire human race..." |
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Subject: RE: Obit: Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1927-2014) From: GUEST,RB Date: 08 May 14 - 08:27 AM a great one, for sure |
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