100 Years of Solitude Part 1: Crash Course Literature 306
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Date: 2022-04-04
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Roberto
Beyond all the points mentioned, this book still contains a hidden element and story structure that will be impossible to truly comprehend beyond the frontiers of Colombia. My grandmother always told me stories of when Marquez used to hang out with Rafael Escalona in the Cesar region. One hundred years of solitude is written in the form of a Vallenato. A Colombian originated musical genre that was born to tell the stories of those who traveled and met different fates on their paths. To truly comprehend the ways of the novel one must first understand why it was written the way it is. It-s an almost musical narrative novel, magical realism is not a device used for narrative, but rather something that flows in the blood of those Colombians who were born from the Caribbean Valley and live their lives as a forever vallenato song, and that-s what really gives this novel the richness that it contains.
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Beyond all the points mentioned, this book still contains a hidden element and story structure that will be impossible to truly comprehend beyond the frontiers of Colombia. My grandmother always told me stories of when Marquez used to hang out with Rafael Escalona in the Cesar region. One hundred years of solitude is written in the form of a Vallenato. A Colombian originated musical genre that was born to tell the stories of those who traveled and met different fates on their paths. To truly comprehend the ways of the novel one must first understand why it was written the way it is. It-s an almost musical narrative novel, magical realism is not a device used for narrative, but rather something that flows in the blood of those Colombians who were born from the Caribbean Valley and live their lives as a forever vallenato song, and that-s what really gives this novel the richness that it contains.
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Pablo
One of my preferred books. I reread it from time to time. The original text in Spanish has a flavor of mango; guayaba, maracuya and arepas, and breathes balancing the phrases, it's almost poetry in prose. The French translation is pretty nice but the breathing of the phrases is lost with most of the flavors. Translation is a very tricky exercise. I feel that the translator in English had suffered greatly. He got the meaning but not the music, the balancing swing of the Spanish. That was impossible.
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One of my preferred books. I reread it from time to time. The original text in Spanish has a flavor of mango; guayaba, maracuya and arepas, and breathes balancing the phrases, it's almost poetry in prose. The French translation is pretty nice but the breathing of the phrases is lost with most of the flavors. Translation is a very tricky exercise. I feel that the translator in English had suffered greatly. He got the meaning but not the music, the balancing swing of the Spanish. That was impossible.
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Ronald
The -discovery of ice- got lost in the translation. It wasn-t natural ice he was talking about but refrigerated ice like when a machine freezes water to into ice for the very first time. Plus in these places close to the equator some people have never ever experience extreme cold temperatures to recognize snow or frozen anything. Not hating just explaining a minor detail lost from Spanish to English. Thanks for your video.
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The -discovery of ice- got lost in the translation. It wasn-t natural ice he was talking about but refrigerated ice like when a machine freezes water to into ice for the very first time. Plus in these places close to the equator some people have never ever experience extreme cold temperatures to recognize snow or frozen anything. Not hating just explaining a minor detail lost from Spanish to English. Thanks for your video.
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Alejandro
I'm Venezuelan and the story of this book describes perfectly what I think is the essence of most -Latin- American history. Every character, event, -magic-, all feels so familiar and made me rethink about how simple or not actually is every hidden village in the bast map of the continent, with lost memories that we will never know, buried in time and oblivion
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I'm Venezuelan and the story of this book describes perfectly what I think is the essence of most -Latin- American history. Every character, event, -magic-, all feels so familiar and made me rethink about how simple or not actually is every hidden village in the bast map of the continent, with lost memories that we will never know, buried in time and oblivion
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Lutfia
Wow. thanks for the summary. Encapsulated what I felt but did not know there were words for it, e. g. -magical realism. ' And I do appreciate the sentence structures (translated into the English language. I will add these other authors to my list.
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Wow. thanks for the summary. Encapsulated what I felt but did not know there were words for it, e. g. -magical realism. ' And I do appreciate the sentence structures (translated into the English language. I will add these other authors to my list.
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Heowa
-My copy of the book didn't self-destruct as soon as I finished reading. - Yeah, well, neither did mine, but as odd as it may sound, reading the end to that book somehow feels like it does. Something inside you definitely does self-destruct.
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-My copy of the book didn't self-destruct as soon as I finished reading. - Yeah, well, neither did mine, but as odd as it may sound, reading the end to that book somehow feels like it does. Something inside you definitely does self-destruct.
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Burning
Great video but something about the narrator is really off putting. Maybe it-s the way he never looks away from the camera, or maybe it-s the way his facial expressions don-t quite match his tone of voice, but it-s disturbing.
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Great video but something about the narrator is really off putting. Maybe it-s the way he never looks away from the camera, or maybe it-s the way his facial expressions don-t quite match his tone of voice, but it-s disturbing.
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Kamila
My love for One hundred years of solitude has no bounds. Still if I'm rereading it and put it away for a week I still have no idea where on a timeline I am and whose children am I reading about. That's part of the magic.
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My love for One hundred years of solitude has no bounds. Still if I'm rereading it and put it away for a week I still have no idea where on a timeline I am and whose children am I reading about. That's part of the magic.
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GrimJerr
Talk about solitude, try being abducted from earth for 15 minutes and spending 1000 years in suspended animation, aware of every second. Sure the 1st 800 went quick but I had to pee for the last 200 years. -
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Talk about solitude, try being abducted from earth for 15 minutes and spending 1000 years in suspended animation, aware of every second. Sure the 1st 800 went quick but I had to pee for the last 200 years. -
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Snoopy
I didn-t get past chapter 5 of this book cause it was too confusing and I have the first day of school tomorrow where ima have a test already on this book. I-m just gonna use this as my study guide -
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I didn-t get past chapter 5 of this book cause it was too confusing and I have the first day of school tomorrow where ima have a test already on this book. I-m just gonna use this as my study guide -
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