This link has been bookmarked by 3 people . It was first bookmarked on 21 Jun 2008, by Tashfeen Mahmud.
-
23 Nov 09
-
28 Aug 08
-
21 Jun 08
-
There’s not a single line in any of my books that I can’t tell you which experience from reality it corresponds to. Always, there’s a reference to a concrete reality. Not a single book! And someday, with more time, we could verify that, we could start playing this game, to wit: this corresponds to such-and-such, that to another, and I can remember the day and all, exactly . . .
-
My grandfather had killed a man, and I remember the screwiest thing happening . . . I was in Valledupar, and suddenly a tall guy, really tall, with a cowboy hat, introduced himself to me. And he said, “Are you Márquez?” I said, “Yeah!” Then . . . he . . . stares at me like this, . . . and says to me, “Your grandpa killed my grandpa!” And I shit my pants! I looked him and didn’t know what to say . . . He ordered . . . I’d sort of settled in, leaning against the wall . . . and he started telling me. His name was José Prudencio Aguilar! And I’ll say no more.
-
It was all like that. Do you know how I financed that whole trip lasting over a year, when I was roaming this way and that through the entire region? Ultimately it was on that journey that I found all the roots for One Hundred Years of Solitude and everything else. I was selling encyclopedias! I sold the Enciclopedia Utea. It has medical books. Books for everything!
-
. I went out to the patio, where there was a big and beautiful black woman who did the housework, who was trying to hang the sheets with one of those clothes pins . . . And there was wind . . . And so if she hung the sheet this side, the wind blew it off that side . . . And she was completely crazy with those sheets . . . until she couldn’t take it any more and Aaaaahhhh! Aaaahhhh! . . . She cried out desperately! . . . Wrapped up in the sheets! . . . And up she went . . . And that’s how it was with everything.
-
It’s not that the book is coded, what’s coded is the events that serve as its foundation, just as some of the events in One Hundred Years of Solitude are.
-
Would you like to comment?
Join Diigo for a free account, or sign in if you are already a member.