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Collected Stories (Paperback)

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Author)
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  • Paperback: 304 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin (1 May 2008)
  • ISBN-10: 0141032553
  • ISBN-13: 978-0141032559
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 2.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 103,432 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Sweeping through crumbling towns, travelling fairs and windswept ports, Gabriel García Márquez introduces a host of extraordinary characters and communities in his mesmerising tales of everyday life: smugglers, bagpipers, the President and Pope at the funeral of Macondo’s revered matriarch; a very old angel with enormous wings, stranded in a young couple’s back garden; a town plagued by dying birds that fall from the sky and an awestruck village captivated by a beautiful drowned sailor. Teeming with the magical oddities for which his novels are loved, Márquez’s stories are a delight.

About the Author
Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1927- ) was born in Aracataca, Colombia. His most recent book, Memories of My Melancholy Whores, is his first new novel to be published in a decade and is available as a Penguin Paperback. He is the author of several novels, works of non-fiction and collections of short stories, including Leaf Storm (1955); One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967); The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975); Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981) and The General in His Labyrinth (1989). He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982.

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4.0 out of 5 stars tremendous use of language, 22 Sep 2005
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These are short stories written with long sentences - sentences
that say more than many authors can in a whole chapter of writing.If you haven't read Marquez before,read these stories -
their brevity gives you a chance to recover from the shock of the distance from the start of a sentence to its end!
Marquez is a master at making readers want to belive the unreal as he moves from one fantastic image to another,always linking the images with something known and tangible.When I read my first ever Marquez sentence,I smiled - his writing causes an immediate and positive reaction.
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4.0 out of 5 stars The growth of a genius, 17 Oct 2002
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Essentially a 'collected collected stories', this pulls together collections from 1947, 1962 and 1972 and as a result the worst material (if you can call it that) comes first.

The Eyes Of A Blue Dog stories betray the author's young age (he was 19), with a darker, more morbid subject matter that Marquez fans will be familiar with. The stories aren't as compelling or rich - but this is compensated for with the other two collections, which are as beautifully written as you'd expect, with some wonderful strangeness invading familiar towns.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Of course, from Marquez I expect to be in awe, and always am, 20 Jan 1999
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Marquez breifly meet Hemingway. Actually he saw him from across the street. He said Hemingway had a passion and relentless fever to write, unsurpassed by no other writer in history. Marquez considers Hemingway to be worthy of his aspirations. It is clear however, in this collection of his short stories, that Marquez needs little improvement in producing images that express passions and feelings deep enough and rich enough to drink. Marquez sets the scene, with the use of a small amount of words. The language is acurrate, and filled with immediate images for the reader. Gabriel Garcia Marquez's short stories exemplify the authors control of his language, and ability to produce such memorable moods and emotions with such little amounts of letters.Translated from Spanish or not, the images are still there. Hemingway has a rival in dynamic simplicity.
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