No one writes to the colonel and other stories /
Written with compassionate realism and wit, the stories in this mesmerizing collection depict the disparities of town and village life in South America, of the frightfully poor and outrageously rich, of memories and illusions, and of lost opportunities and present joys.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Harper & Row,
[1968]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | Written with compassionate realism and wit, the stories in this mesmerizing collection depict the disparities of town and village life in South America, of the frightfully poor and outrageously rich, of memories and illusions, and of lost opportunities and present joys. Coronel no tiene quien le escriba, first published in 1961, is a novella by Gabriel García Márquez about an impoverished, retired colonel who waits 15 years for a promised pension that never arrives, symbolizing lost hope and dignity in post-civil war Colombia.The colonel lives with his asthmatic wife in poverty in the fictional town of Macondo, surviving on meager means, pinning their hopes on a fighting rooster left by their dead son, while facing poverty and the absurdity of their situation. García Márquez considered it his best work, believing One Hundred Years of Solitude was necessary to make people read it. |
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| Item Description: | Translation of El coronel no tiene quien le escriba (Novella) and Los funerales de la Mamá Grande (Compilation). Los funerales de la Mamá Grande originally published in: Los funerales de la Mamá Grande: México : Universidad Veracruzana, 1962. |
| Physical Description: | v, 170 pages ; 22 cm |
| ISBN: | 0060114177 9780060114176 0060751576 9780060751579 0380009943 9780380009947 |