A woman asked me an interesting question recently. She wanted to know if there was an ethnic group called the Buendias. As I asked her further questions, she explained that she was reading Gabriel Garcia Marquez's book One Hundred Years of Solitude or Cien Anos De Soledad, in the original Spanish Language. No surprise she was confused about what was real and what wasn't in that book.Winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature, Garcia Marquez's writing is called magic realism, a blend of realism and fantasy, a term originally applied to painting but now Latin American writers, most notably, Isabel Allende, now living in California, Alejo Carpentier, Jorge Luis Borges, Jacques Stephen Alexis, Juan Rulfo, Carlos Fuentes, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez. One Hundred Years of Solitude is a prime example.
To learn more try these books, all found on the 2nd floor of Central Park Library: Gabriel Garcia Marquez by George R. McMurray, Gabriel Garcia Marquez by Raymond L. Williams, Living to Tell the Tale by Garcia Marquez and The Modern Latin-American Novel by Raymond Leslie Williams
She was thrilled to learn that Novelist, one of our online book resources, has book discussion questions for her book group or for her own mental stimulation. Learn more about the books you are reading and stimulate thought and discussion when you talk with others about books by visiting NoveList. It is available in the library or from our web site by choosing RESEARCH DATABASES then NoveList.
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