Earlier quoted context omitted.
"had cause to remember" and "introduce him to ice"?
It's just not the same. :'(
Agreed. "Show him ice" is closer.
Gabriel García Márquez, Literary Pioneer, Dies at 87
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#162Earlier quoted context omitted.
"had cause to remember" and "introduce him to ice"?
Potentially to "experience ice for the first time", but that lacks the romantic-ness of the Spanish original. The problem is that English's "meet" or "know" would cause the reader to double-take, and potentially still not understand the meaning, whereas in Spanish it feels normal.
Many years later, Colonel A.B. faced a firing squad while remembering that distant afternoon when his father came to show him ice.
Re: Gabriel García Márquez, Literary Pioneer, Dies at 87
#163Oh my. A paragon of magical realism and my second favorite author. Rest in peace. Liking storytelling alone is sometimes not enough to like Marquez, you have to love language too. He uses (some might say abuses) language to impact his storytelling, often using incredibly long, convoluted sentences to weave his narrative. It can be hard to follow, sometimes intentionally, but I find it enormously satisfying to read an…
> Rest in peace. I, on the other hand, hope that the three men that Marquez's close friend Castro had executed for trying to get to the US on a boat will rest in peace. Not to mention all the dissidents who died in his prisons. Marquez lived in Cuba and for decades witnessed the daily suffering and poverty of the Cuban people. The endless monitoring of Castro's secret police. The constant rationing of basic necessiti…
Marquez pointed out that he was able to assist some political prisoners but he knew that with Castro he could only go so far.
Re: Gabriel García Márquez, Literary Pioneer, Dies at 87
#164“Do not allow me to forget you” ― Gabriel García Márquez
(we won't forget you)
Re: Gabriel García Márquez, Literary Pioneer, Dies at 87
#165Oh my. A paragon of magical realism and my second favorite author. Rest in peace. Liking storytelling alone is sometimes not enough to like Marquez, you have to love language too. He uses (some might say abuses) language to impact his storytelling, often using incredibly long, convoluted sentences to weave his narrative. It can be hard to follow, sometimes intentionally, but I find it enormously satisfying to read an…
> Rest in peace. I, on the other hand, hope that the three men that Marquez's close friend Castro had executed for trying to get to the US on a boat will rest in peace. Not to mention all the dissidents who died in his prisons. Marquez lived in Cuba and for decades witnessed the daily suffering and poverty of the Cuban people. The endless monitoring of Castro's secret police. The constant rationing of basic necessiti…
Seeing your comment downvoted just shows this cliched simpathy for the left that was a fad in the 60's and 70's for anyone who wanted to be perceived as an intellectual (sure it worked to get chix by then); its still kicking and alive it seems. By that time you could sell a scam that steals a nation resources as love for the poor.
But today after we know what happened in Cambodia, Ethiopia, North Korea - to cite a few - under comunist regimes; being a simpathizer of communism just can evidence either ignorance, lack of empathy and sensibility or attachment to an old hungover hipster fad.
That said, I enjoyed reading cien años de soledad but I also know that Macondo would be no better under communist rule.