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Like García Marquez's bestselling One Hundred Years of Solitude, it is a densely populated, myth-ridden antiepic...
...private artificer. Now that his increasing blindness prevents him from working them out on paper, he describes to Interviewer Guibert how he composes his enigmatic short stories and poems, learning them by heart in silence before confiding them to a tape recorder or a secretary. Gabriel García Marquez, author of the brilliant Colombian novel One Hundred Years of Solitude, confesses that he became a conjurer with words only because he was too timid to become what he really in tended to be: a stage magician...
...ninth, however, with one out, pinch hitter Gonzolo Marquez. Gene Tenance and Don Mincher singled, to secure a 3-2 victory...
...more recent short stories included here that one finds the authentic Garcia Marquez in the humor, the color and detail, the easy access to magic balanced by harder ironies. In The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World, ostensibly written for children, the inhabitants of a fishing vil lage discover a magnificent corpse on the beach, and in marveling at its splendor come to recognize the meanness of their own lives. In another story, a flea-bitten old angel makes a mysterious appearance...
Blacaman the Good, Vendor of Miracles is a wicked little fable about an itinerant worker of cures and exactly how he acquired his specialty. Blacaman is the kind of brazen fellow Garcia Marquez obviously enjoys. The only thing he refuses to do is raise the dead, because, he says, "They're murderous with rage at the one who disturbed their state." He knows better, however. Offered the road to sainthood, he declines: "The truth is that I'd gain nothing by being a saint after being dead; an artist is what I am." And he actually manages...