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Title: Living to Tell the Tale by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Edith Grossman ISBN: 1-4000-4134-1 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 04 November, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (23 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: One of the few honest autobios out there right now
Comment: This book took me about 3 months to read. For me, that is a LONG time. Like "One Hundred Years of Solitude," this book is difficult, but extremely enjoyable and rewarding. To put it simply, Garcia-Marquez is one of the finest authors on the planet, and this book begins to explain the how and why of his talents, while displaying them fully in the superb writing.
"Living to Tell the Tale" takes the reader from Garcia-Marquez's birth up to his move to Switzerland in his late 20s. The book is written in long, unbroken chapters, which makes the reader feel like they are reading a journal entry, making the book highly personal and honest. The timeframe is often ambiguous, which means that even though this is nonfiction, Garcia-Marquez's trademark "magical realism" is evident. In fact, after reading this book, I am not sure that Garcia-Marquez made up the magical events in his novels...magic happens all around him.
One of the most interesting parts of this book is the insight Garcia-Marquez gives into his writing style. For example, he states that he avoids using adverbs. I had never noticed that before, but when I was finished reading, I was astounded by all the different ways he describes things, without ever using an -ly ending. Equally fascinating are his recounting of events that were later described in his novels: the shut down banana factory, the first sighting of Maconda, the two doomed lovers from "Love in the Time of Cholera."
I don't speak Spanish well, but it is apparent even to me that Edith Grossman is the reason Garcia-Marquez is so readable in English. Anyone can tell this is an excellent translation.
I am giving this book five stars, but even as I do that, I know the next two volumes will be superior. Here you see the beginnings of the master; in the next two volumes we will see him at work.
Rating: 5
Summary: gabriel garcia marquez, at its best
Comment: These book is what it wraps it all. His life is so important, because it has a direct effect on his other novels and short tales. I have read some of his other books and is amazing how his life experiences relate so much to the way he writes. What I like the best of these and all his other books, is the way he can describe situations and things, and makes you be part of it because of these vivid descriptions. For example in his autobiography (Living to tell the Tale) says a lot about stories that make such an impact in his live, and memory, that later he writes them and that is how extrodinary books come to life: "Del amor y otros Demonios", "One hundred years of SOlitude", "El otono del patriarca", and of course his fist novel "la hojarasca".
Worth reading it, but more worth it if you know his previous novels and short stories. Highly recommend it.
Rating: 5
Summary: GREAT!
Comment: Marquez has influenced so many writers living in the US: from Jorge Reyes (Rediscovering Cuba) to Cristina Garcia (Dreaming Cuban), to even internationally recognized authors such Isabel Allende (The House of Spirits). Which is why his books, his voice, his voice has moved from simply being good to being great! And this book, the first in a three-volume installment, proves it.
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Title: Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes, Edith Grossman, Harold Bloom ISBN: 0060188707 Publisher: Ecco Pub. Date: 21 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez ISBN: 0060929790 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 November, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Namesake : A Novel by Jhumpa Lahiri ISBN: 0395927218 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 16 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: Love by Toni Morrison ISBN: 0375409440 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 28 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: The Way to Paradise : A Novel by Mario Vargas Llosa, Natasha Wimmer ISBN: 0374228035 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: 19 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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