Word: marquez
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sleep. The man, named Tobias, perceives the odor of roses rising from the sea. The villagers soon become aware of the scent, the village becomes a carnival and a mythically rich American named Mr. Herbert arrives to solve everyone's problems. Such is the core of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's short story, "The Sea of Lost Time," now a dramatic production appearing at Adolphus Busch Hall...
...circular structure of time in this family saga reminds one, inevitably, of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude, However, with its wistful quality and its preoccupation with love in extreme old age, Hijuelos' book bears a closer affinity to Love in the Time of Cholera. A Pantagruclian gusto concerning sea, food, and bodily functions also informs the novel...
Fourteen Sister is likely to upset some readers Occurrences that seem disreputable in Garcia Marquez' Picturesque backwater towns become more distorting when they arise in Cobbleton, Pennsylvania at the beginning of the novel, a plane crashes because the Montez O'Brten house exudes so much femininity that the pilot is overcome and the engine malfunctions; later, the ghost of Nelson's sister returns to watch him make love to Mariels. American readers can swallow these events when they're set in Macondo and Aracatacas; magical realism has been relegated to the level of quaint events in imaginary south...
...influence of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Latin American magical realism as a burden for you and other Hispanic writers, something you can't get away from...
...past, an American past but also interceding with this Cuban psyche and also with the Irish take on things, the melancholy which I guess is in all my books. There are parts of Fourteen Sisters that to me are truly magical that no one mentions, so different from Garcia Marquez that it's amazing to me. I could've written a follow-up to Mambo Kings could've done a follow-up to my first novel. I'm just trying to change things a little bit. Not to be [retentions, or anything, I just want to break the mold...