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in the Time of Cholera The
Autumn of the Patriarch Gabriel
Gárcia Márquez |
Many
years later, as he faced the firing squad, General Aureliano
Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father
took him to discover ice.
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Opening words of novel |
At
that time Macondo was a village of twenty adobe houses, built
on the bank of a river of clear water that ran along a bed of
polished stones, which were white and enormous, like prehistoric
eggs. The world was so recent that many things lacked names,
and in order to indicate them it was necessary to point.
One Hundred Years of Solitude |
They
felt that they had been the victims of some new and showy gypsy
business and they decided not to return to the movies, considering
that they already had too many troubles of their own to weep
over the acted-out misfortunes of imaginary beings.
One Hundred Years of Solitude
The people of Macondo, whose mayor proclaimed
the movies were not real and the cinema was 'a machine of illusion'
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It
was as if God had decided to put to the test every capacity
for surprise and was keeping the inhabitants of Macondo in a
permanent alternation between excitement and disappointment,
doubt and revelation, to such an extreme that no one knew for
certain where the limits of reality lay. It was an intricate
stew of truths and mirages that convulsed the ghost of José
Arcadio Buendía with impatience and made him wander all
through the house even in broad daylight.
One Hundred Years of Solitude |
The
only difference today between Liberals and Conservatives is
that the Liberals go to mass at five o'clock and the Conservatives
at eight.
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Colonel Aureliano Buendia |
The
world must be all fucked up when men travel first class and
literature goes as freight.
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Catalan bookstore owner in Macondo |
Carmelia
Montiel, a twenty-year-old virgin, had just bathed in orange-blossom
water and was strewing rosemary leaves on Pilar Ternera's bed
when the shot rang out. Aureliano José had been destined
to find with her the happiness that Amaranta had denied him,
to have seven children, and to die in her arms of old age, but
the bullet that entered his back and shattered his chest had
been directed by a wrong interpretation of the cards.
One Hundred Years of Solitude |
He
[Aureliano II ] had already understood that he would never leave
that room, for it was foreseen that the city of mirrors (or
mirages) would be wiped out by the wind and exiled from the
memory of men at the precise moment when Aureliano Babilonia
would finish deciphering the parchments, and that everything
written on them was unrepeatable since time immemorial and forever
more, because races condemned to one hundred years of solitude
did not have a second opportunity on earth.
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Last words of novel |
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Love
in the Time of Cholera: The 1985 novel was written by Colombian author
Gabriel Gárcia Márquez. Márquez was born on March
6, 1928. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. |
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