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Text: English, Spanish (translation)
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Melancholy Continues With Phantasmic Hopes !,
This review is from: No One Writes to the Colonel (Hardcover)
Gabo's fatalism,melancholy and agony continues in this Chef d'oeuvre making the reader believe that life is Despair as Kafka or Samuel Beckket experienced it.It's about a Colonel who had fought against the government for liberty, rights and freedom ..But after the Truce , the colonel still awaits his mail(pension).The mail and the Rooster are the only hope which are Keeping him alive with his wife..Full of Compassion , sympathy and sufferings .. A must read. If El Dorado ever existed in South America ,then Macondo- the oppsite- also exists there.
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Emotive and thought provoking,
By Karen Ashe (Northern Ireland) - See all my reviews
This review is from: No One Writes to the Colonel (Hardcover)
I studied this book as part of my A level Spanish course and found that avid readers who didn't study Spanish were missing out on a great experience! While the story of "El Coronel" is a simple, rather uncomplicated one, it deals with contempory and historical social issues in a thoughtful and interesting way. The way it is written evokes great sympathy and pity in the reader for both the Colonel and his wife, but particuarly the former with his child-like innocence and continuing sense of hope. It is not an inaccurate description of how many lives were (and still are) at the time in Colombia...therefore you realise that there's always someone else worse off than yourself! An excellent read.
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