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kalkwiese's review against another edition
3.0
Das hier ist eine Sammlung von drei Kurzgeschichten-Bänden.
Da wäre zuerst "Augen eines blauen Hundes". Hier finden sich Marquez' frühe Erzählungen, die eher schwermütigen Prosagedichten gleichen und oft nur wenig erzählen. Wer Hunder Jahre Einsamkeit kennt und liebt, wird sich hier wundern, denn offensichtlich musste Marquez als Autor noch reifen. Es sind hauptsächlich diese Geschichten, wegen denen meine Bewertung so tief liegt.
Dann folgt der Band "Das Leichenbegräbnis der großen Mama". Plötzlich erzählen die Geschichten und es gibt immer wieder Verbindungen zu Hundert Jahre Einsamkeit und den dort vorkommenden Figuren.
Zuletzt kommt die Sammlung "Die unglaubliche und traurige Geschichte der einfältig Erendira und ihrer herzlosen Großmutter". Das sind eindeutig die besten Geschichten in diesem Buch, die alle völlig überzeugen können und wo Marquez' Erzähltechniken alle effektiv eingesetzt werden. Nun spürt man, dass man Texte eines großen Erzählers liest.
"Die Erzählungen" mag durchwachsen sein, aber für Liebhaber von Marquez' Büchern dürfte es dennoch interessant sein, seine Entwicklung als Geschichtenerzähler so anschaulich nachverfolgen zu können.
Da wäre zuerst "Augen eines blauen Hundes". Hier finden sich Marquez' frühe Erzählungen, die eher schwermütigen Prosagedichten gleichen und oft nur wenig erzählen. Wer Hunder Jahre Einsamkeit kennt und liebt, wird sich hier wundern, denn offensichtlich musste Marquez als Autor noch reifen. Es sind hauptsächlich diese Geschichten, wegen denen meine Bewertung so tief liegt.
Dann folgt der Band "Das Leichenbegräbnis der großen Mama". Plötzlich erzählen die Geschichten und es gibt immer wieder Verbindungen zu Hundert Jahre Einsamkeit und den dort vorkommenden Figuren.
Zuletzt kommt die Sammlung "Die unglaubliche und traurige Geschichte der einfältig Erendira und ihrer herzlosen Großmutter". Das sind eindeutig die besten Geschichten in diesem Buch, die alle völlig überzeugen können und wo Marquez' Erzähltechniken alle effektiv eingesetzt werden. Nun spürt man, dass man Texte eines großen Erzählers liest.
"Die Erzählungen" mag durchwachsen sein, aber für Liebhaber von Marquez' Büchern dürfte es dennoch interessant sein, seine Entwicklung als Geschichtenerzähler so anschaulich nachverfolgen zu können.
annuraida's review
I've finished reading the Chronicles of a Death Foretold, and will be in a daze for the next few hours
luzbella's review
2.0
Granted, Marquez is a master of flowery language and there are MANY Colombian colloquialisms in his work, but these translations are absolutely awful and tone-deaf. I am going to throw the book OUT, rather than donate it and subject someone else to this 'porqueria'. Too bad.
56/365 - 2022
56/365 - 2022
graywacke's review
5.0
10. Collected Novellas by Gabriel García Márquez
translators Gregory Rabassa & J. S. Bernstein
published: 1990
format: 281 page paperback
acquired: December
read: Feb 5 - 11
rating: 4½
It's a pity I waited so long to review these, but these novellas are the work of a, using the word of my flight attendant, master. Not sure I can capture much now.
[b:Leaf Storm|31721|Leaf Storm and Other Stories|Gabriel García Márquez|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1410141595s/31721.jpg|3444333] (1955)
This is a story of transition. In Márquez's fictional Macondo the Banana growers move in giving the town a burst of activity and industry, then this all fades and the town slowly reverts back to its former insignificance. The story here is about a doctor who comes to town and stays with a family, and doesn't leave until he's nudged out, encouraged to move two houses down. Over the course of time this doctor runs a strong and then weakening practice, stops practicing, becomes reclusive and finally manages to accrue the hatred of most of the town. But the story, which switches narrators without warning, is largely about the family that originally boards him.
This story stands out for its various layers of complexity that I could pick up on a read through it. It's a very ambitious work and mostly works brilliantly
[b:No One Writes to the Colonel|23885|No One Writes to the Colonel and Other Stories|Gabriel García Márquez|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1410130190s/23885.jpg|6888141] (1961)
A fully depressing story because it's hard not to like the colonel and his wife, as they starve waiting for a military pension to arrive that never will arrive.
[b:Chronicle of a Death Foretold|23878|Chronicle of a Death Foretold|Gabriel García Márquez|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1430736599s/23878.jpg|59137] (1981)
Quite fun stuff about a murder that isn't a mystery. The narrator is part of the tale, but tells the tale as if he were a journalist writing an investigative essay, interviewing every key character and then trying to read between the lines. What comes out is psychologically meaningful and even touching, but does a lot of different stuff along the way.
translators Gregory Rabassa & J. S. Bernstein
published: 1990
format: 281 page paperback
acquired: December
read: Feb 5 - 11
rating: 4½
It's a pity I waited so long to review these, but these novellas are the work of a, using the word of my flight attendant, master. Not sure I can capture much now.
[b:Leaf Storm|31721|Leaf Storm and Other Stories|Gabriel García Márquez|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1410141595s/31721.jpg|3444333] (1955)
This is a story of transition. In Márquez's fictional Macondo the Banana growers move in giving the town a burst of activity and industry, then this all fades and the town slowly reverts back to its former insignificance. The story here is about a doctor who comes to town and stays with a family, and doesn't leave until he's nudged out, encouraged to move two houses down. Over the course of time this doctor runs a strong and then weakening practice, stops practicing, becomes reclusive and finally manages to accrue the hatred of most of the town. But the story, which switches narrators without warning, is largely about the family that originally boards him.
This story stands out for its various layers of complexity that I could pick up on a read through it. It's a very ambitious work and mostly works brilliantly
I was sitting across from the Indian woman, who spoke with an accent mixed with precision and vagueness, as if there was a lot of incredible legend in what she was recalling but also as if she was recalling it in good faith and even with the conviction that the passage of time had changed legend into reality that was remote but hard to forget.
[b:No One Writes to the Colonel|23885|No One Writes to the Colonel and Other Stories|Gabriel García Márquez|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1410130190s/23885.jpg|6888141] (1961)
A fully depressing story because it's hard not to like the colonel and his wife, as they starve waiting for a military pension to arrive that never will arrive.
[b:Chronicle of a Death Foretold|23878|Chronicle of a Death Foretold|Gabriel García Márquez|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1430736599s/23878.jpg|59137] (1981)
Quite fun stuff about a murder that isn't a mystery. The narrator is part of the tale, but tells the tale as if he were a journalist writing an investigative essay, interviewing every key character and then trying to read between the lines. What comes out is psychologically meaningful and even touching, but does a lot of different stuff along the way.
aych's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
funny
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
orithyia's review against another edition
challenging
dark
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
madpre's review against another edition
dark
funny
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
- Strong character development? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
4.5
annemaries_shelves's review against another edition
4.0
The collected novellas in this publication includes "Leaf Storm," "No One Writes to the Colonel," and "Chronicle of a Death Foretold."
This collection shows what a novella should be!
Each was fantastic, enveloping the reader in the sluggish heat of Colombia, entrancing you with the lives of unforgettable characters.
While there is significantly less magical realism in the stories as experienced in some of his full length novels, many of the same themes, places, and even characters show up in their early forms (notably Colonel Aureliano Buendia).
It was so wonderful returning to the beauty of Garcia Marquez's writing that I'm sad to leave it once again.
If you only read one story of the three, read "No One Writes to the Colonel" - the author is quoted as "having written One Hundred Years of Solitude so that people would read 'No One Writes to the Colonel.'"
Overall, 4.5 stars!
This collection shows what a novella should be!
Each was fantastic, enveloping the reader in the sluggish heat of Colombia, entrancing you with the lives of unforgettable characters.
While there is significantly less magical realism in the stories as experienced in some of his full length novels, many of the same themes, places, and even characters show up in their early forms (notably Colonel Aureliano Buendia).
It was so wonderful returning to the beauty of Garcia Marquez's writing that I'm sad to leave it once again.
If you only read one story of the three, read "No One Writes to the Colonel" - the author is quoted as "having written One Hundred Years of Solitude so that people would read 'No One Writes to the Colonel.'"
Overall, 4.5 stars!
placey07's review against another edition
dark
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
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