8/5
The Book: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
ISBN: 978-0-06-088328-7
Suggested By: Mecca Willman
Where: Home
When: 7-8P
Music: None
Company: The Family
Pages: 284-339 (55)
The Lead In: The cycles are wonderful. This book is beautiful.
The 411 on the 55: Meme is a beautiful young woman who falls in love with an automobile mechanic. Her mother and father disapprove of her love and so they ban the young man from their house. It does not stop them from loving each other and butterflies begin to flock to Meme. It is a physical manifestation of her love. He is shot entering the bathhouse to see Meme and becomes an invalid. She is sent to an cloister to live as a nun.
Line of the Day: “She was still thinking of Mauricio Babilonioa, his smell of grease, and his halo of butterflies and she would keep on thinking about him for all the days of her life until the remote autumn morning when she died of old age, with her name changed and her head shaved and without ever having spoken a word, in a gloomy hospital in Cracow.” pg 297
Fact on the Fiction: Throughout this success, Marquez kept writing and smoking. He consumed sometimes six packs of cigarettes a day during the furious period of writing One Hundred Years of Solitude. His novels since, both magical and legendary, have kept him at the forefront of literature since 1970. Oprah.com
No comments:
Post a Comment