8/4
The Book: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
ISBN: 978-0-06-088328-7
Suggested By: Mecca Willman
Where: Home
When: 8:30-9:20P
Music: None
Company: The Family
Pages: 228-283 (55)
The Lead In: This story is really beautiful in the deaths of its characters. As each of them goes, it seems they have moments of clarity, knowing their death is immanent.
The 411 on the 55: Remedios the Beauty is a girl with little brains but impressive beauty. She drives men insane with her looks, as well as emanating a scent that causes death. Men see her, fall in love, are rebuffed and then kill themselves. She is uninterested in the carnage she works and travels through the city ignoring men and their enraged sex drives.
Line of the Day: “But when she saw her eating with her hands, incapable of giving an answer that was not a miracle of simplemindedness, the only thing that she lamented was the fact that the idiots in the family lived so long.” pg 235
Fact on the Fiction: “[the view that enchantment has to involve fairies and elves] It is obviously not shared by the Colombian novelist Gabriel García Márquez, who has created in "One Hundred Years of Solitude" an enchanted place that does everything but cloy. Macondo oozes, reeks and burns even when it is most tantalizing and entertaining. It is a place flooded with lies and liars and yet it spills over with reality. Lovers in this novel can idealize each other into bodiless spirits, howl with pleasure in their hammocks or, as in one case, smear themselves with peach jam and roll naked on the front porch.” NYTimes
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