Dong Yuhui on "One Hundred Years of Solitude": If you only read one book in your life, it must be "One Hundred Years of Solitude"; If there is only one book on the shelf, it must be "One Hundred Years of Solitude"; The old story that can still be passed down after 1,000 years must be "One Hundred Years of Solitude". "One Hundred Years of Solitude" tells the world with the fate of a family of 7 generations that loneliness is the norm in life, and on the way to getting old, instead of trying to resist loneliness, it is better to learn to enjoy loneliness.
Until the age of eight, Márquez lived in his native town of Aracataca. He was born with an umbilical cord around his neck and almost suffocated, which is also the reason for his later claustrophobia. When he grew up, he was very afraid of staying alone in a small room, and bought a large, spacious and bright house with huge floor-to-ceiling windows and plenty of light.
Grandma Márquez had many rules, and she was forbidden to violate the rules. For example, as soon as she sees a black butterfly approaching a door or window, she immediately chases it away with a broom. Because once the black butterfly flies into the house, it will kill the family. She hates sulfur very much, and as soon as she smells sulfur, she will immediately protect the children around her, because where there is sulfur smell, there must be demons. On weekdays, if there is a strange sound in the yard, it is probably a witch who sneaks into the house, and she will tell the family to take precautions. Early in the morning, if a funeral procession passed by the door, she quickly let the lying child sit up, because the undead would take away the soul of the lying child.
If Márquez had fallen because he was running around, his grandmother would have used the question to play: "You see, the elders hate disobedient children the most, and they will push them down." Just now an elder was behind you, didn't you see it? I saw her smiling at you. Now, though, she's gone. ”
Marquez's elementary school teacher, Rosa, came to her home, and her grandmother welcomed her warmly, saying: "Miss Rosa, you may not know, I heard a big movement last night, a witch did not sit firmly on her magic broom, and fell on the roof over there. ”
Every evening, Márquez would sit in a rocking chair smelling jasmine, listening to the sound of insects, thinking about the demons and monsters that his grandmother said, and immersed himself in a magical fantasy world. This feeling is very wonderful, in his opinion, the demons and monsters that his grandmother talked about intruded into his world of thought at night, and they were as real as the fragrance of flowers and insects.
Grandma's dream world is colorful, there are living and dead, witches and demons, which makes little Gabo fascinated and yearned. In the sun, he has been living in that world that belongs to him; And in the moonlight, he will be full of inexplicable fear of that world. Márquez's silent "ghost stories" were so impressive that they have become his fondest and most memorable memories.
For Márquez, it was his grandmother who helped and influenced his writing career the most, and who inspired him the most. When his grandmother told him those creepy ghost stories, she could always quietly depict those horrific scenes, as if she had seen it with her own eyes. She tells stories very calmly and colorfully, and those seemingly impossible things are immediately made real and believable once they are polished by her. Márquez used this method when he wrote One Hundred Years of Solitude, and his grandmother was like his teacher of writing.
If his grandmother taught him how to tell stories and provided story material, then grandpa provided him with the hero of the story.
Grandfather Colonel Nicholas has a legendary life, and he almost died twice in war, but God seems to favor him especially and always makes him save from danger. He was tall, looked very burly, and was usually dressed very neatly, maintaining the style of a soldier.
Grandpa often took Márquez around the town, and one day, when grandpa and grandson came to the banana company's store, grandpa saw frozen fish and said to his grandson: "Look, it's frozen fish." "Márquez was excited and curious to see so much ice for the first time. He reached out and touched the ice, feeling as if he was "hot". Later, he wrote in One Hundred Years of Solitude: "The ice I touched was hot, and that was because the town I described was the hottest in the world. The town needs ice because the magic of ice is amazing, but when I say ice is 'hot', I mean that the town is extremely hot, so there is nothing incomprehensible about the town being hot and the ice being 'hot'. If it's not 'hot', there's nothing to say about the so-called hottest town. So 'ice is hot' alone is enough to prove that the town is hot enough, and nothing else goes into saying. ”
Grandpa once had a good friend, and many years ago, the two had a duel in which he killed each other. He has always felt guilty for his actions. In order to escape the past, he moved from his hometown and settled in the town of Arakataka. However, that lingering experience haunted him, and the memories of his friends always disturbed him. Years later, Márquez wrote his grandfather's feeling of being tormented by the undead into "One Hundred Years of Solitude", so there is a classic image of Alkatio saddened by ghosts.
Grandpa also told Márquez about the splendor of the town, stories similar to many of the stories of Colonel Aureliano in One Hundred Years of Solitude.
"One Hundred Years of Solitude" has a unique style, which is both magnificent and fantastical. A few strokes in the rough place outline the bloody ruthlessness of decades of civil war; The delicate description of the torment of lust in love is like Mu Ru complaining; The strange place, the ghost world of the world, the past, the future is unpredictable. Light and heavy, it is recognized as the most representative work of magical realism and has been called "one of the most outstanding novels written in Spanish in the 20th century".
Mo Yan: The first time I read "One Hundred Years of Solitude", I felt like "being struck by lightning".
Chen Zhongzhong: "One Hundred Years of Solitude" and Márquez shocked me.
Su Tong: "One Hundred Years of Solitude" is the artistic standard of a good novel, and I have not yet reached such a novel.
Jiang Xun: "One Hundred Years of Solitude" is a European and American novel very similar to "Dream of Red Mansions".
Mai Jia: In the second half of the twentieth century, if there was only one writer in the world, it would be Márquez; If there is only one book, it is "One Hundred Years of Solitude".
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