In a small Spanish sea-coast town in South America, every year toward the end of January the sea grew harsh and emitted a foul odor, also dumping its garbage on the town. This contaminated the town with an unbearable mood until the next December. But, one year a man of strange origin, a "gringo" came to town and with his presence the sea became smooth, an emitted an odor of roses.
Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist. García Márquez, familiarly known as "Gabo" in his native country, was considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century. In 1982, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
He studied at the University of Bogotá and later worked as a reporter for the Colombian newspaper El Espectador and as a foreign correspondent in Rome, Paris, Barcelona, Caracas, and New York. He wrote many acclaimed non-fiction works and short stories, but is best-known for his novels, such as One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) and Love in the Time of Cholera (1985). His works have achieved significant critical acclaim and widespread commercial success, most notably for popularizing a literary style labeled as magical realism, which uses magical elements and events in order to explain real experiences. Some of his works are set in a fictional village called Macondo, and most of them express the theme of solitude.
Having previously written shorter fiction and screenplays, García Márquez sequestered himself away in his Mexico City home for an extended period of time to complete his novel Cien años de soledad, or One Hundred Years of Solitude, published in 1967. The author drew international acclaim for the work, which ultimately sold tens of millions of copies worldwide. García Márquez is credited with helping introduce an array of readers to magical realism, a genre that combines more conventional storytelling forms with vivid, layers of fantasy.
Another one of his novels, El amor en los tiempos del cólera (1985), or Love in the Time of Cholera, drew a large global audience as well. The work was partially based on his parents' courtship and was adapted into a 2007 film starring Javier Bardem. García Márquez wrote seven novels during his life, with additional titles that include El general en su laberinto (1989), or The General in His Labyrinth, and Del amor y otros demonios (1994), or Of Love and Other Demons.
Love it when books meet and nod to each other in my head. One of the charactersin this story was a subject to the statement "a person does not die when they should, but when they want." Reading Marquez in original for first time in a long while, reminded me how much I enjoy the endless beginnings of his stories.
Garcia Márquez me hace cuestionarme cuántas cosas pueden entrar en un par de páginas. Sentimientos desgarradores, secretos de familia, emociones, maldiciones de un pueblo, estados, climas húmedos, ambientes agobiantes, magia naturalizada, anatomía crecida y achicada por amar, paisajes nublados, olor a puerto, moscas irritantes y un mar que te chupa, al igual que el relato en sí mismo
Me gusto,me pareció muy interesante,la menera en la que esta narrado me atrapó. El cierto sarcasmo que contiene me parece maravilloso,hubo partes que me causaron gracia.
Lento y bastante complejo, tuve que leer reviews para entenderlo de verdad. García Márquez no es mi escritor y sinceramente no me gustó mucho este cuento
3☆ zato ker ambos estaban tan cansados que confundieron las cosas y en último sólo pudieron hacer como las lombrices en vez de los conejitos y eso me da muchísima gracia
The magic of García Márquez is in this story when a cursed and smelly piece of coast suddenly emits the smell of roses. Somehow this change is linked to a newcomer who is a gringo.