Word: leafstorm
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Dates: during 1972-1972
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...LEAFSTORM AND OTHER STORIES by GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ 146 pages. Harper...
...book, which contains a novella and six stories, is in most ways a letdown. Leafstorm, the long work, is also about Macondo, but it is an early, earnest exercise in which three narrators-a boy, his mother and his grandfather-recall the old man's efforts to give a decent burial to an outcast whom the town wants to leave to the vultures...
...Garcia Marquez, who is now 43, obviously came to terms with his great gifts after he had finished Leafstorm. He has acknowledged that reading Faulkner and making a pilgrimage through Yoknapatawpha country helped him to enrich his own private literary property and see its mythic possibilities. At any rate he developed from a cautious, limited craftsman into a prodigal fabulist with total command in his protean imagination...
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