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I've always wondered how non-spanish or even non latin american people can enjoy García Márquez. His books display great usage of the language and are full of h
by Volrath89 7y ago
I've always wondered how non-spanish or even non latin american people can enjoy García Márquez. His books display great usage of the language and are full of historic references. I personally enjoyed his work after having read a lot of other books (expanding my vocabulary) and only after learning colombian history and not before
PD: Before becoming a nobel laureate writer, he worked as a journalist for a newspaper. In my university we studied one of his articles in depth, as they were beautifully written.
- rukuu001 7y agoMy latin in-laws shake their heads in pity because I can't 'get' García Márquez, even reading in Spanish.
- sanderjd 7y agoI find the writing beautiful even in translation. It always makes me wish I could read the original language. It does make me feel like I'm missing a lot of things, but even with those things missing I find that it's better than most other things I read. I've had a very similar feeling when reading Russian authors like Gogol, Pushkin, and Dostoevsky.
- habosa 7y agoSpanish-language novels translated to English is reliably my favorite category of books. I think with a good translator the beauty of the language carries through. (I speak some Spanish but not enough to read a whole book)