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"For Garcí a Má rquez the world contains mysteries that we need and can easily live with, but also miracles that we cannot understand, that speak for forces unknown to men. 'Leaf Storm, ' then, brings together both Garcí a Má rquez's early and late styles. The former deserves our respect; the latter requires our celebration."-- Peter S. Prescott, "Newsweek""To call these allegories would be to suggest that they are 'symbolic' somehow and perhaps plainly stated. They ore not; the texture is that of the prose poem, and the intention a restatement of religious belief. But the feeling one comes away with is that of enchantment, which is a sense of having endured terror and magic." -- Paul Theroux, "Chicago Tribune""Garcí a Má rquez has extraordinary strength and firmness of imagination and writes with the calmness of a man who knows exactly what wonders he can perform. Strange things happen in the land of Má rquez. As with Emerson, Poe, Hawthorne, every sentence breaks the silence of a vast emptiness, the famous New World 'solitude' that is the unconscious despair of his characters but the sign of Má rquez's genius." -- Alfred Kazin, "The New York Times Book Review"
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'Garcia Marquez has extraordinary strength and firmness of imagination and writes with the calmness of a man who knows exactly what wonders he can perform. Strange things happen in the land of Marquez. As with Emerson, Poe, Hawthorne, every sentence breaks the silence of a vast emptiness, the famous New World 'solitude' that is the unconscious despair of his characters but the sign of Marquez's genius.'
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Product details
Series: Perennial Classics
Paperback: 160 pages
Publisher: Harper Perennial; Reissue edition (February 1, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 006075155X
ISBN-13: 978-0060751555
Product Dimensions:
5.3 x 0.4 x 8 inches
Shipping Weight: 4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.0 out of 5 stars
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I bought this book to help my study on Spanish. I love Gabriel Garcia Marquez, but the original is still too hard for me. This translation work is quite acurate while maintaining the flavor of Garcia Marquez. It helps me greatly and speed up my understanding. However, In addition to be a study aid, the book also provides a great deal of enjoyable reading. I recomend it for a summer reading.
Good book.
I especially loved the "A Very Old Man with the Enormous Wings." It smacked of surrealism and was simply and beautifully written. Very melancholic in tone and narrative, as expected of Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
Purchased to practice my Spanish. It's a real challenge
Wonderful stories.
Leaf Storm (1955 as La Hojarasca – The Newcomer) is set in the fictional town Macondo. It is 2:30 pm on Wednesday, 12 September 1928. It is the funeral of the foreign doctor – ‘the most hated man in town.’ Only Colonel Aureliano Buendia, his 30-year-old daughter Isabel, and ‘the child’ who is almost 11 years old, attend the funeral; the rest of the town would rather let the old doctor rot. Isabel wonders how they will treat her now.The 60-years-old doctor arrived in Macondo 25 years earlier, in 1903, and lived for the first eight years with the Colonel. Through the three narrators (three generations of the Buendia family) we learn of Isabel’s husband who abandonned her nine years ago, never to return, when ‘the child’, the boy, was two-years-old. We learn of the Colonel’s wife, Adelaida, and ‘Pup’ the priest. And we learn why the townfolk despise the foreign doctor so much.Leaf Storm is about abandonment, loss, betrayal, rejection, solitude, reclusion and isolation, and the rituals of death. The writing of Gabriel Garcia Marquez is succinct, evocative, and sensory. This novella is the precursor to One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967, published in English in 1970) set in the same fictional town, with some of the same characters. Although I am reading this novella many years after reading the novel, it nevertheless excels as a stand-alone short story by the Colombian winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature. And it makes me want to read One Hundred Years again.
... which was actually the initial prelude. I've read a number of the works of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, most notably, his classic One Hundred Years of Solitude (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) as well as Love in the Time of Cholera (Oprah's Book Club). I first read "Leaf Storm" a few decades ago, and decided it needed a re-read. Like William Faulkner, who found a seemingly inexhaustible source of material in that small postage-stamp size of earth that is Lafayette Co., Mississippi, which he fictionalized as Yoknapatapa Co., so too Marquez produced story after story based on his own town of Aracataca, Columbia, which he would fictionalize as Macondo. Both Faulkner and Marquez would win the Nobel Prize, separated by a bit more than four decades."Leaf Storm" was published twelve years before "One Hundred Years..." It is a novella which sets the stage for his later work. All the familiar elements are there: the town itself, of Macondo. Always in the background is the Civil War, which tore Columbia apart, dating from the 19th Century. The Civil War provides so much of the impetus for current actions. And there is the "magical realism" that is the hallmark of Marquez' style... those seemingly impossible events that just happen.Marquez draws the reader in with the death of a doctor that the town hated. The search for the "why" carries the reader through the first half of the novella. As Marquez describes the town's feelings, in a style reminiscent of Faulkner : "...satisfied rather at seeing the longed-for hour come, wanting the situation to on and on until the twirling smell of the dead man would satisfy even the most hidden resentments." In fact, the authorities deliberately delay burying him... so that the town can smell the odor of his dead flesh. Now, that is hatred, in a classic sense. So, what did the doctor do to merit this? It is actually what he did NOT do: he refused to treat wounded soldiers during the Civil War. Hum. Proving that there are many disparate threads that seem to tie together, I had to reflect upon the various administrators of VA hospitals who denied medical care to veterans. As the priest in Marquez' story posits it: their burial should be conducted by the sanitation department.In this early novella of Marquez, his narrative powers are quite apparent. He tells the story from three different points of view, which span three generations. There is Colonel Aureliano Buendia, who, as a point of honor, originally decided to shelter the doctor, and is determined to see that he has a proper burial, despite the town's feelings. The other two narrators are Buendia's daughter, Chabela, and her child. And always, there is how Marquez describes Macondo, and its founding: "Arriving there, mingled with the human leaf storm, dragged along by its impetuous force, came the dregs of warehouses, hospitals, amusement parlors, electric plants; the dregs made up of single women and men who tied their mules to hitching posts by the hotel, carrying their single piece of baggage, a wooden trunk or a bundle of clothing, and in a few months each had his own house, two mistresses, and the military title that was due him for having arrived late for the war."The publisher of my copy, issued in 1979, was Picador. They tacked on six short stories, of varying quality, as it always seems, to fill out their offering. "The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship" is five pages long, but only one sentence. Take a deep breath. It is a stylistic precursor to The Autumn of the Patriarch. And I found the story "Blacaman the Good, Vendor of Miracles" a riff, between Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Thomas Pynchon.I was going to originally rate it 4-stars, since I found the ending somewhat unsatisfactory, but upon further reflection, decided it was simply an excellent prelude for "100 years...", thus, 5-stars.
What can I say?There is a reason that Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a master. He didn't just have a unique and powerful way of writing, he also had a unique and powerful way of seeing the world around him. I am also reading Gabriel Garcia Marquez, A Life by Gerald Martin. It has been a fascinating journey, reading Leaf Story as I read about the early years of his life in Colombia and traveling in Europe, what used to be the U.S.S.R., the United States, and Cuba.It was easy to give this book 5 stars. A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings may still be my favorite story, but the entire book got under my skin.
The brilliance is this: The leaf storm is the arrival of--for lack of a better term--industry to the small town of Macondo. The leaf trash are the elements of the population that the storm blows into town, leaving the residents already there feeling like outsiders.This is presented in the prologue. What follows is so unique. It is not factual, it is like watercolor bleeding on a wet canvas. The stories sprawl into the psyches of the imagined citizens. We get their hearts and souls.I've written about each of the stories on my blog [...] on the entries between October 18, 2012 and November, 19, 2012.It is really unfortunate that this treasure has not become available for ereaders.
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