Word: erendira
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FICTION: Final Payments, Mary Gordon -Innocent Erendira and Other Stories, Gabriel Garcia Márquez -Shosha, Isaac Bashevis Singer -The Execution of Mayor Yin, Chen Jo-hsi -The Left-Handed Woman, Peter Handke -The World According to Garp, John Irving
There is a prince charming of sorts whose actions free the girl, but there is no conventional happy ending. Erendira and her supporting cast belong to the world of legend that Garcia Marquez Yoknapatawphaized out of the Colombian landscape in his lengthy masterpiece One Hundred Years of Solitude (1970). But the short story is not a form that can adequately contain his distinctive magic which requires proliferations of exotic plots, flowering images and familia' tangles...