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...Gabriel Garcia Marquez...
...first it seems rather surprising that a translator as extraordinarily gifted as Edith Grossman should have rendered the title of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's new book, Doce cuentos peregrinos, as Strange Pilgrims. The Spanish literally means something like "Twelve Peregrine Tales." Yet a Spanish/English dictionary will tell you that "peregrino," besides "pilgrim" or "peregrine," also means "strange," "exceptional," and "perfect." It's easy to sympathize with Grossman, for there is no way to convey these connotations in one word. However, all those words are perfectly applicable to Garcia Marquez's first book since The General in His Labyrinth...
...whose dead daughter's body has miraculously not decayed and who travels to Rome to have her canonized. He spends twenty-two years on his quest, lugging his daughter's corpse around in a cello case, surviving a succession of Popes and battling the insurmountable Vatican bureaucracy. Garcia Marquez's prose renders this grotesque premise poignant. Margarito is the (Latin) American innocent abroad, encountering a world he knows nothing about and which he is not prepared to confront...
With the explosion of Latin American literature in the latter half of this century, authors such as Borges and Cortazar, Marquez and Puig have become household names for many Northern Americans. Their work brings into stark focus the social and intellectual conditions in countries with often brutally oppressive regimes...
...Garcia Marquez's famous magical realism is difficult to capture on the stage, but a great deal of this production does a splendid job of suggesting the atmosphere that would generate such a style. In the first scene, where Tobias (Billy Hulkower) is haunted by the crabs, the actors swirl in an eerie and effective dance. The scene where Petra (Neela Pania), who interprets the smell of roses as a sign from God, dies and is buried, is a knockout, probably the most powerful moment in the production. Petra's death and interment take place against a back-ground...