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QUOTE].[/I'm getting desperate.
"One Hundred Years of Solitude". Supposed to be this literary masterpiece. Nobel prize winning author.
I'm over 300 pages in, and I don't get it.
The names are mostly the same, which gets very confusing after the first 3 generations, and the writing style is jumbled and goes from present to future to past with very little segue.
This is supposed to be the best book he's written. And I still don't get it.
Has someone else read this? Can you tell me what I'm missing?
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I remember reading that on the recommendation of a total Marquez fanatic. ...I loved it, but I could no more explain it than you. I think I liked the fabric of it. It almost doesnt matter what the detail is.....its the smell and the feel of the endless rain, its the grief that underlies the economic realities of oppression and its the hybridised culture born of previous culture clashes, magical realism at its finest though I know many object to that term. Its a fantasy woven by a storyteller poet to while away the hot hours of political frustration
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