![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He wrong-foots the reader from the first page, opening with a phrase that suggests that somehow we’re already lagging behind-‘Many years later…’-and suggesting that ‘the world was so recent that many things lacked names.’ So is this a new creation myth? Is the whole of history going to be played out in this little world? I can’t pretend that I was asking such a question as I read this sentence, eight lines into the novel, but in the first chapter at least a lot of things that happen feel like this is all new. Marquez doesn’t make anything easy for us, so it’s some time before we realise that this isn’t some ageless fantasy world of the imagination, but a real country in the first half of the 19th Century. I first read this novel decades ago, and I remember finding it extraordinary. ![]()
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