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100 years of solitude

trajan · 2004-12-10 10:31:49

I'm half way through this and really loving it. Anyone else read it. Curious book though, all the characters seem to find themselves moved around by the writer as if little action figures, with no life or personality of their own outside the plot stream, which is to say they don't seem like people, just pawns. And yet the…

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trajan

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I'm half way through this and really loving it. Anyone else read it. Curious book though, all the characters seem to find themselves moved around by the writer as if little action figures, with no life or personality of their own outside the plot stream, which is to say they don't seem like people, just pawns. And yet the book is totally class. Funny that.

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#2 10-12-2004 2:31pm

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He's going for that fairy tale vibe. Yes, it's a cool book though.

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#3 10-12-2004 9:16pm

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simu wrote:

He's going for that fairy tale vibe.

In some ways - don't forget that Garcia Marquez is one of the better known magic realists. Not really a fairy-tale, rather a setting that is subtly different to reality.

Great novel, though I haven't read it in an awfully long time. Must dig it up again.

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#4 11-12-2004 2:26am

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I know but i heard that a lot of writers feel trapped by critics in a magic realist straight-jacket so I decided to avoid the term.

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