Apr
11
Reflexión final
Posted by: | April 11, 2010 | Comments Off on Reflexión final
¡No puedo creer que estoy escribiendo el último blog del semestre! Es increíble que estamos al fin del curso – este curso me ha parecido muy interesante y he aprendido muchas cosas sobre el realismo mágico y la literatura latinoamericana en gener…
Apr
11
span 365
Posted by: | April 11, 2010 | Comments Off on span 365
Me ha gustado mucho este curso. Siempre he tenido ganas de leer 100 años de soledad pero nunca encontré tiempo para hacerlo. Es lo que me ha más gustado del curso y nunca voy a olvidar la historia. Es tan interesante ver la técnica de García Márq…
Apr
10
Flipping the coin.
Posted by: | April 10, 2010 | Comments Off on Flipping the coin.
The most interesting part of this course for me has come at the end with the comparison of McOndo and Macondo. As a HUGE fan of magical realism, I was at first thrown off with the mission statement of McOndo’s editors…..Why would they want to critic…
Apr
5
Comentarios sobre algunos cuentos de McOndo
Posted by: | April 5, 2010 | Comments Off on Comentarios sobre algunos cuentos de McOndo
Para mi, leer los cuentos de esta colección es una experencia muy diferente de leer Cien años de soledad o los dos otros libros – creo que eso se atribuye a las diferencias de forma; los cuentos son mucho más cortos que un libro, y cada cuento est…
Apr
3
Seeking reality.
Posted by: | April 3, 2010 | Comments Off on Seeking reality.
I don’t think it’s that these authors and their stories in McOndo have miraculously appeared after the BOOM, but that North America (et al.) just wasn’t aware of their existence. As media is able to manipulate the beliefs and perspectives that the gen…
Mar
28
These Three Kings
Posted by: | March 28, 2010 | Comments Off on These Three Kings
Okay. A comparison of three meccas in Latin American literature: Leyendas de Guatemala by Asturias, El reino de este mundo by Carpentier, and García Márquez’s Cien años de soledad. First off, I find that Latin American authors have much to critique…
Mar
21
Y después de un ‘Buendía’ de tarea…….
Posted by: | March 21, 2010 | Comments Off on Y después de un ‘Buendía’ de tarea…….
First, may I point out that this book extends it’s solitude to it’s readers….or maybe just to our Spanish class. I have been sitting here for hours trying to finish off the novel while my roommates are out at the Kingshead drinking Winter Ale….my …
Mar
14
Themes and scattered thoughts…
Posted by: | March 14, 2010 | Comments Off on Themes and scattered thoughts…
It’s common for titles to give away certain areas of the plot; there’s always some sort of foreshadowing which comes from ‘judging a book by its title’. Cien años de soledad is no different as it ventures into the question of time and the sense of so…
