Margie - 4-26-2004 at 02:46 PM
Are there any Marquez/Paz fans out there?
I am working on Fire & Blood, A History of Mexico by T. R. Fehrenbach, anybody out there have a go at this already?
I love Marquez !
Books
academicanarchist - 4-26-2004 at 04:45 PM
Marquez is great. 100 Anos de Soledad is a great novel, and he has many short stories. One I read many years ago was Historia de un naufrago. Paz is a
bit contrived for my tastes. Fire and Blood is not the best history of Mexico. If you are looking for something in English, there are a number far
better than the one you have chosen. If you read Spanish,then you should start with Historia General de Mexico. Of all the countries in Latin America,
Mexico has been the one most studied by gringos.
Good Mexican History Text
Margie - 4-26-2004 at 09:08 PM
Dear Professor,
Could you please recommend a good comprehensive History of Mexico text in English?
Gracias, Margie
Eli - 4-27-2004 at 12:24 PM
My heart does a little dance anytime I hear Gabrial Garcia Marquez is Loved and still read, he certainly deserves that at least. Although I must admit
that it has been over 30 years since I last read "100 years of Solitude", at the very mention of the book, scenes pop into my head of a Sweet Innocent
rising to Heaven, and loosing grandma in a box under the bed, like she was a little doll, and an old man gone mad and tied to a tree. For so many
years, correctly or incorrectly these images are painted in my memory for life. Still, my favourite all time Love story ever written by anyone is
"Love in the Time of Cholera", oh my, the muse was with Marquez when he came up with that tale. May the God's bless his soul for all he has given us,
he is one hot dude.
I have always meant to study Octavio Paz, haven't fulfilled that one yet, hopefully, someday. I really need peace of mind to read poetry and more so
even yet, when the deed is to be done in Spanish.
Mexican History
academicanarchist - 4-27-2004 at 12:46 PM
Michael Meyer, et el.
Margie - 4-27-2004 at 03:31 PM
Thank you, I was stumbling through Fire and Blood and it wasn't clicking, thank you so much.
"Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover
ice..."
Time to re-read it again and also Love in the Time of Cholera & The Autmn of the Patriarch.
Thanks, guys.