No one writes to the colonel and other stories /
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 wi...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
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1979.
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| Edition: | First Harper Colophon edition. |
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| Summary: | 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. "These stories are told in spare, unpretentious but picturesque prose, compassionate of human frailty, but also rich in wit and irony. The characters are all too human, alternately humorous and tragic."-- Library Journal. |
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| Item Description: | Translation of: El coronel no tiene quien le escriba (Novella) and Los funerales de la Mamá Grande (Compilation). "CN 700"--Spine Los funerales de la Mamá Grande originally published in: Los funerales de la Mamá Grande: México : Universidad Veracruzana, 1962. |
| Physical Description: | v, 170 pages ; 21 cm |
| ISBN: | 0060907002 9780060907006 |