8/1
The Book: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
ISBN: 978-0-06-088328-7
Suggested By: Mecca Willman
Where: In Flight to DFW
When: 3-4P
Music: None
Company: Alone
Pages: 60-115 (55)
The Lead In: I’m terrified of flying and this flight was bumpy and terrifying. This book managed to distract me from the rigors of the flight.
The 411 on the 55: How beautiful the writing of this story is. Its powerful and sweet, races from eyes to brain like some drug.
Pietro Crespi falls for a young lady, but she will not have him. He pushes and pushes and seems to be winning her love. He is gifted in dance and the arts, impressive to his desired mother-in-law. But after a long bout of attempted convincing, his love tells him she will never marry him. He is crushed, goes to his workshop, plays his zither for hours and is discovered in the morning, his wrists slit. How beautiful and fitting.
Line of the Day: “Love is a disease.” pg 68
Fact on the Fiction: The fluidity of time is a major theme of this novel: “He reifies the metaphor of history as a circular phenomenon, through the repetition of names and characteristics belonging to the Buendía family. Over six generations all the José Arcadios possess inquisitive and rational dispositions as well as enormous physical strength; the Aurelianos, meanwhile, tend towards insularity and quietude. This repetition of traits reproduces the history of the individual characters and ultimately a history of the town as a succession of the same mistakes ad infinitum due to some endogenous hubris in our nature” Wikipedia
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