This is by far the greatest one I've read**.
Mo Yan once said in a speech: "In 1984, I read "One Hundred Years of Solitude" for the first time, and I felt shocked, followed by regret, it turned out that ** could be written like this. ”
Yu Hua said: "Marx is a great writer, and I have nothing to admire him but him. ”
If an ordinary ** is a tree, then "One Hundred Years of Solitude" is a forest.
It took me a week to read the book, three or four days to think about what was presented in the book, and I read a lot of reviews and notes about the book.
I found that I wanted to write a lot of content, but I didn't know how to write for a while.
I will simply introduce this book briefly today, and I plan to read it again later and write it as a series.
1 About the Author
Gabriel García Márquez doesn't need much introduction, and if you don't know yet, it means that you don't have an idea for literature.
Here I still want to introduce him, as Maugham said, a writer's work has a lot to do with his personal values and life.
To have a deep understanding of a work, one must have an understanding of the writer's life. (not the original words).
Márquez was born in 1927 in the seaside town of Arakataka, Colombia's Magdalena.
As a child, I lived with my maternal grandparents, a retired military officer and former colonel, who was stubborn and radical, but also kind.
It is not difficult to explain the accuracy of the description of the colonel's military life in his book.
My grandmother was very knowledgeable and had many myths and legends and ghost stories, and Márquez was the most loyal listener.
Márquez began reading "One Thousand and One Nights" at the age of 7, and he grew up in a world with more than the average person.
In 1936, he went to live in Sucre with his parents.
In 1947, he was admitted to the National University of Bogotá to study law, and at the same time began to write literature. He dropped out of school in 1948 and became a journalist.
Interestingly, many famous writers are journalists, such as the Nobel Prize-winning Ernest Miller Hemingway (The Old Man and the Sea), George Orwell (Animal Farm, 1984), Marguerite Duras (The Lover) and so on.
Journalism is a hard job, but what you see and think provides a lot of material for writers.
Márquez's main works are shown below.
The most famous of them are "One Hundred Years of Solitude" and "Love in the Time of Cholera", and "The Autumn of the Patriarch" is also shocking, and I plan to reread it recently.
The most shocking thing is that this book was published when he was forty years old, and he began to write this masterpiece at the age of 36.
When he was in his fifties, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature, the highest honor in the temple of literature.
He died of illness in 2014.
2 Writing Background
From the beginning of the thirties of the nineteenth century to the end of the nineteenth century, Colombia experienced dozens of civil wars, large and small, in which hundreds of thousands of people were killed.
The cruelty and hypocrisy of the rulers, the ignorance and ignorance of the people, were written into the book by the writer.
From the very beginning to the end, there is no warmth, no understanding, no help between people, each of them indulges in their own desires, and finally soaks in the potion of loneliness until death comes.
Although they are all relatives, physical distance cannot carry the gap in their hearts.
It took a hundred years for the hard-working and capable Ursula to change the shackles in the family's genes.
The colonel fought for decades, and when he looked back, he didn't know what he was fighting for.
This is very similar to the Latin American countries of that era that wanted to get rid of poverty, backwardness and ignorance, and integrate into the big world.
The author's shocking description probably also implies that the Latin American people should unite and work together to keep up with the progress of the times, and fight against the lonely nature of life and the limitations of geography.
He used the disappearance of the Buendía family from the earth to warn people that if all people were immersed in their own desires and loneliness, then the nation would also die out many years later.
3 Introduction
This book is the author's Nobel Prize-winning work and Márquez's most outstanding masterpiece.
"Love in the Time of Cholera" is also a great work, but there is still no way to compare it with "One Hundred Years of Solitude" in terms of volume.
Some people say that "The Right Bank of the Erguna River" is the Chinese version of "One Hundred Years of Solitude", and I can only say that they have only one thing in common, and that is to write about the death of several generations in many different ways.
The book is 260,000 words long, and it is not difficult to read.
The reason why many people can't read a paragraph is because they haven't finished reading it, and the first half is really because they will be confused by the same name of father, son, and grandson.
But the further you go, the fewer characters there are, the simpler the story becomes.
The work focuses on the life of seven generations of the Buendía family, from the time they moved to Macondo to the demise of the last generation.
The whole book has a tone that is different from other works, and I forgive me for being too shallow to describe it in words.
It's like a snowflake falling, looking light and beautiful, but it has a biting coldness in the **.
The chicken soup sentences that are popular on the Internet claiming to be from this book are not from this book, and Márquez would not write in such a great work as "the essence of man is a person or." Don't expect too much from others. "That's the case.
He would say that "Colonel Herineldo Márquez, who had escaped three assassinations, survived five wounds, survived a hundred battles, was defeated by endless waiting, succumbed to the bleak evening scene, and thought of Amaranta in a borrowed dimly lit room." The last of the veterans whose whereabouts he knew appeared in the newspapers, with their faces humbled up, and the unknown republic** stood beside them.
I know you're old, but now I realize you're much older than you seem. ”
The main characters and events in the book are also described by the author from multiple angles, so that they are flesh and blood.
About magic, it is indeed very magical, but also terrifying, after reading this paragraph "He was entangled by the memories of himself and others like a deadly spear piercing the atrium of the heart, and could not help but envy the cobwebs that were diagonally slanted among the withered roses, the weeds and poisonous weeds so tenacious, and the bright air of the February morning so calm."
Then he saw the child. All that was left of the boy was a swollen, shriveled skin, and the ants of the world were dragging him back to the nest along the gravel path of the garden. ”
After this image appeared, I didn't want to leave in my mind, and it directly scared my sleep.
Regarding the content, we will talk about it slowly, and the following is still an introduction to the character relationship that everyone needs the most.
4 Profile
First generation: Father: José Arcadio Buendia.
Mother: Ursula Igualand.
PS: They are cousins.
Second generation: Boss: José Arcadio (Lover: Pilar Ternera - a son, wife: Rebecca Buendía - no queen).
Second: Colonel Aureliano Buendía (Remedis Moscott - no queen, lover Pilar Ternera - a son).
Adopted daughter: Rebecca Buendía (husband José Arcadio - no queen).
Daughter: Amaranta Buendia - No Queen.
ps: Although the second child had 17 sons with 17 women, they were all killed in the end, and there was no queen. The son who had a lover was finally killed by death, and there was no queen.
That is, only the eldest of the three bloodlines in this generation has an illegitimate child here, and the third is the descendant of this child from the third.
Third generation: eldest illegitimate son: Arcadio (José Arcadio, son of Pilar Ternela) (wife Santa Sofia della Peta has two sons and a daughter).
Second illegitimate child: Reoriano José (Colonel Aureliano Buendía, son of Pilar Ternera) - no queen.
PS: The Colonel's genes have since been lost.
**: Parents - Arcadio, wife Santa Sofia de la Pi).
Twins: Jose Arcadio second --- no queen.
Aureliano Buendía 2nd (wife: Fernanda del Capio, lover: Petra Cortés).
Daughter: Remedis Buendia --- no queen.
PS: All three grandchildren are descendants of the eldest illegitimate son.
Fifth generation: José Arcadio.
Meme Buendía (lover Aureliano Babylon - a son).
Amaranda Surula (husband Gaston, lover Aureliano Babylon).
PS: All three children are twins Aureliano the second.
Sixth generation: Aureliano Babylon (son of Meme Buendia and Aureliano Babylon).
ps: Mei Mei and her lover's child.
Seventh generation: Aureliano (Rodrigo).
The child of Arenano Babylon and his aunt Amaranda Surula was born with a pig's tail and died from being eaten by ants.
ps: Mei Mei's illegitimate son didn't know that he was also the blood of the family, and his grandmother never told him his true identity.
Ursula didn't know that the child she had been raising at home was her sister's child, and she thought that it was a child floating in the cradle, as her mother said.
Written at the end: If ** is to describe a person, the average writer will describe the person's appearance, clothing, conversation, and thoughts, but Marquez also describes the person's blood and hair.
If a person can only choose one ** to read in his life, then I will definitely recommend this one.
There may be two reasons why many people can't read it:
The first one reads too little.
Reading less means that the expression of ** is not clear and the comprehension ability is weak.
It seems to be writing scenes, but it is actually writing about people's emotions. If you can't read it, you can't understand it, and if you can't understand it, it's hard to continue.
Second, the mind is not quiet.
This kind of complex work can only be understood if you have to pay full attention and concentrate on reading it. Once you run away, you will get lost in the multitude of characters and don't know what to do.
If you can't read it, read it several times, or go to the Internet to search for the explanations of heroes and heroes from all walks of life, and then read it after you have a general understanding of the plot of the book. (Be careful to distinguish between false information).
After understanding this book, you have read through the nature of loneliness in life and the return of human desires.
You will understand that memories are clouds in the sky, and all life at the moment is beautiful and worth cherishing.