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La increíble y triste historia de la Cándida Eréndira y de su abuela desalmada (Contemporanea)
Este libro excepcional reúne la novela corta que le otorga su título y otros seis relatos más, de los que todos menos uno pertenecen a la etapa de plena madurez del escritor. Fueron los años en los que Macondo le abrió las puertas del realismo mágico: la frase se hace más larga y caudalosa, la realidad se expresa mediante fórmulas mágicas y legendarias, los milagros se ins...more
Paperback, 160 pages
Published
February 7th 2006
by Plaza y Janes
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This amazing book brings together the short novel that gives the book his name,and six more fantastic short stories. Each of them a masterpiece on their own,all of them world famous. It's hard for me to pick a favorite from this collection,or from any other by Garcia Marquez,he's just such a good and powerful writer,a magician. I really enjoy and love the ending for the story "Blacaman el bueno,vendedor de milagros",I thought I was reading something from "The Arabian Nights"....more
This is a good start for ggb readers. The title story, at 60 pages practically a novella, is beautiful. "Innocent Eréndira..." has moments of colorful magical realism, particularly during the grandmother character's bouts of sleep-talking.
There is a series of vaguely-connected shorts on the blur between sleep and death in the middle of the collection. These I didn't enjoy. The stream-of-consciousness technique and inner-dialogue made them difficult to follow.
Tw...more
There is a series of vaguely-connected shorts on the blur between sleep and death in the middle of the collection. These I didn't enjoy. The stream-of-consciousness technique and inner-dialogue made them difficult to follow.
Tw...more
In curtea cuiva coboara un batrin inaripat, un mort mare si frumos e aruncat de valuri pe tarmul unui sat, un senator moare la data exacta, un vinzator de miracole ii da tovarasului sau puterea de a invia mortii, o bunica "nesabuita" isi forteaza nepoata sa se prostitueze - toate aceste istorioare si celelalte din volum, povestite in inconfundabilul stil marquezian, creeaza acea lume de margine de mit, in care realul si fantasticul se impletesc, lume in care personajele se misca firesc...more
One of my tasks for spring break was to choose 3-4 books to read with my fifteen-year-old son over the next 12 weeks. Wanting to include an example of magical realism, I began skimming books by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and other authors. I quickly decided that the best known novels would not be appropriate for (or appreciated by) my son.
But, being the persistent type, I came upon this selection of short stories at the library and decided to search it out for a single story we could r...more
But, being the persistent type, I came upon this selection of short stories at the library and decided to search it out for a single story we could r...more
Este deve ser o livro com o título mais longo que já li (ainda bate "A rapariga que sonhava com uma lata de gasolina e um fósforo" em alguns caracteres)... e é engraçado que quando lia este título interpretava sempre a palavra "cândida" como fazendo parte do nome e não como um adjectivo que caracteriza a Eréndira. Só ao ler a história é que percebi o meu engano mas ainda me é difícil ler o título com a interpretação mental correcta... mistérios do cérebro... :)
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Ler "A incrível e triste história da cândida Eréndira e da sua avó desalmada" foi como estar a ver um filme de Hayao Miyazaki com partes menos próprias... o que é óptimo! Não sei até que ponto o Nobel foi merecido pois, apesar de ter gostado imenso, não me parece material de Nobel da Literatura. Mas talvez algum tipo de significado subjacente me tenha passado ao lado...
De qualquer modo, para uma primeira (e verdadeira) experiência com GGM, o saldo é extremamente positivo. A...more
De qualquer modo, para uma primeira (e verdadeira) experiência com GGM, o saldo é extremamente positivo. A...more
Oh, the first story - A very old man with enormous wings - is absolutely fantastic, and it reminded me of this wonderful painting by Romanian artist Stefan Caltia:
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I haven't always liked reading short stories. But I realise now what amount of work it takes to tell a story in only a few pages, to concentrate all the ideas you would put in tens or hundreds of pages (supposed you were to write a novel) in just a few paragraphs. And sometimes, I guess, writing stories...more
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I haven't always liked reading short stories. But I realise now what amount of work it takes to tell a story in only a few pages, to concentrate all the ideas you would put in tens or hundreds of pages (supposed you were to write a novel) in just a few paragraphs. And sometimes, I guess, writing stories...more
sebenernya buku yang kubaca.. cuma buku kecil yang penerbitnya.. AKU BACA (klo ga salah gitu.., jadi cuma ada cerita Erendira-nya aja...
Erendira.. seorang gadis yang hidup bersama neneknya... Tapi neneknya ini kejam banget... Dia menyuruh Erendira yang masih baru tumbuh sebagai gadis belia, untuk mengerjakan semua tugas.. termasuk memandikan neneknya itu..
Nah yang gilanya, untuk mendapatkan uang, Sang Nenek tega menjadikan cucunya itu sbg penjual tubuh.. jadi, Erendira d...more
Erendira.. seorang gadis yang hidup bersama neneknya... Tapi neneknya ini kejam banget... Dia menyuruh Erendira yang masih baru tumbuh sebagai gadis belia, untuk mengerjakan semua tugas.. termasuk memandikan neneknya itu..
Nah yang gilanya, untuk mendapatkan uang, Sang Nenek tega menjadikan cucunya itu sbg penjual tubuh.. jadi, Erendira d...more
Gabriel Garcia Marquez is one of the writers than brings honor to native Spanish speakers and writers. At the beginning of this short recollection of stories, I couldn't actually get the flow of the stories, the meaning and feeling, if I may explain; but after I immersed myself into Marquez realistic and fictional world, I enjoyed the reading a great deal.
Good reading, but what I really didn't like were the endings applied to each story, not what I expected. I expected a more clear and log...more
Good reading, but what I really didn't like were the endings applied to each story, not what I expected. I expected a more clear and log...more
If you're in the mood to feel like everything in the world is unhappy and unfair... than this is the book for you!! I've heard about authors writing about the real world but come on! There's nothing realistic about this! It's just a cranky old man who's view on life is bleak, writing just to make known the fact that he hates the world. I give this 2 thumbs way down and will not recommend to anyone. Every story has the same message....life sucks so deal with it. It gets really old really fast. If...more
.. مجموعة من القصص.. تغوص بك في عالم مدهش .. عالم غابرييل الخيالي .. حيث كل شيء ممكن .. تعصف بك الأحداث الى عالم لايعرف الحدود .. جميلة هي رواياته .. جميل هو خياله بالرغم من غرابته ..
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.. بغض النظر عن جمال مفرداتها .. إلا أنني وجدت بعض الفراغات اللتي لم يتم ملؤها .. خلفت ورائها حيرة شديدة في ماهية مايرمي إليه .. ماجعل الفهم متعسراً على فهم بعض أحداثها ..
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.. بغض النظر عن جمال مفرداتها .. إلا أنني وجدت بعض الفراغات اللتي لم يتم ملؤها .. خلفت ورائها حيرة شديدة في ماهية مايرمي إليه .. ماجعل الفهم متعسراً على فهم بعض أحداثها ..
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"...atendendo os doentes comuns em grande quantidade mediante combinação especial, os loucos conforme sua mania, as crianças por metade do preço e os tolos por gratidão, e vamos a ver quem se atreve a dizer que não sou filantropo, damas e cavalheiros, e agora sim, senhor comandante da vigésima esquadra, ordene aos seus rapazes que deixem as barricadas para que passe a humanidade sofredora, os lazarentos à esquerda, os epilépticos à direita, os tolhidos onde não estorvem e lá atrás os menos ...more
A mystical,dark read, but not as great as "Love in the time of cholera". Erendira is the best story which kicks off right in the beginning and the remaining short stories go downwards with its mediocre writings and uninteresting focus.
Erendira accidentally burns down her greedy grandmother's house and as punishment, is sold into a seedy life of prostitution.The story focuses on her grandmother's never-ending appetite for more and overbearing control and Erendira's tortured ...more
Erendira accidentally burns down her greedy grandmother's house and as punishment, is sold into a seedy life of prostitution.The story focuses on her grandmother's never-ending appetite for more and overbearing control and Erendira's tortured ...more
احببت قصة ايرينديرا البريئة وكرهت جدا استغلال جدتها لها
هل الظروف ممكن تبرر الاعمال وتدفعنا لاشياء ننكرها ربما ايرينديرا تناقش ذلك
هناك قصص اخري محببة للنفس في المجموعة لكن هناك ايضا العديد من القصص الغير مفهومة أعتقد انها تستحق قراءة ثانية لعل الامور تنجلي خاصة واني قرأتها في وقت دراسة وضغط
هل الظروف ممكن تبرر الاعمال وتدفعنا لاشياء ننكرها ربما ايرينديرا تناقش ذلك
هناك قصص اخري محببة للنفس في المجموعة لكن هناك ايضا العديد من القصص الغير مفهومة أعتقد انها تستحق قراءة ثانية لعل الامور تنجلي خاصة واني قرأتها في وقت دراسة وضغط
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Definitivamente Gabriel García Márquez es mi cuentista favorito del mundo. Todo lo que necesito en la vida: emoción, poesía, humor, amor lo puedo encontrar en sus cuentos no en sus novelas. Esta es definitivamente una de sus mejores colecciones y se la recomendaría enfáticamente a todos los que deseen conocer exactamente porqué fue Premio Nobel de Literatura en 1985. Asi que este es el mejor libro para comenzar a quererlo y seguramente nadie a quien le sea regalado quedará inmune al genio colomb...more
If you want adult fairy tales and lore, this is for you. Garcia Marquez has his own genre to contend with and it's works like these that make him a recognizable figure in your literary consciousness. His short stories are fables and allegories... they contend with time and death and love... the images are pulled out of dreams and Latin American culture (and what wasn't there before is invented now) with wicked mastery...all the while a dreamscape is well established in the reader's inspired nogg...more
composed of the title novella and eleven other short stories, innocent erendira features some twenty-five years of garcia marquez's earlier, briefer writings. more than half of the included stories were penned in his early 20's, and while they demonstrate a young talent, they are hardly comparable to his more mature outings. amongst the collection's best pieces are "innocent erendira," "the sea of lost time," "eyes of a blue dog," and "the woman who came at s...more
Il commento a questo libro non può non essere positivo. Come dice colei che me lo ha consigliato, in questo, come anche in altri libri di Marquez, vengono narrate cose che leggendole superficialmente possono apparire irreali e inverosimili; invece con una lettura più attenta si possono trovare molte analogie con la vita reale e si può notare che certe situazioni sono più comuni di quanto si possa pensare.
Una raccolta di racconti in cui è la legge dello scrittore a regnare: una cosa è vera nel momento in cui Marquez ha deciso di narrarla. I racconti che ho preferito è quello che dà il nome all'antologia, la storia di una ragazzina che viene costretta dalla nonna a prostituirsi per ripagare i danni causati alla vecchia per una fatalità. E' tutto molto irreale, a tratti fin troppo.
I am a huge fan of Marquez, but this was the least enjoyable thing I have read by him. The first story "Innocent Erendira" is by far the best story: from there the stories spin out into these brief glimpses of what I can only imagine to be greater stories that he has not completed: they are fragmented and leave you in the same place as you began. Marquez is already a difficult writer to follow at times: due to the brevity and surreal-ness of these stories, often all ability to follow h...more
Another stellar collection of short stories from GGM (my fav!). Some of them went over my head and deserve a good re-read. The gems of the collection are the first two stories: Innocent Erendira and her Heartless Grandmother followed by The Sea of Lost Time. He has the most beautiful ways of making impossible things seem so real. If nothing else, at least read the first two.
Garcia Marquez is synonym with madness, still obsessed with Aureliano Buendia and the town of Macondo. As all his other books, it is full of extremely exaggerated metaphors. However this overly exaggerated madness has a strange effect, instead of having a toxic psychedelic effect, opens your mind to new ways of thinking, to careful analysis, to see things in a new light.
I loved the title story, which I found most similar to Love in the Time of Cholera because it has strong characters, a plot that progresses throughout the story, and a similar uniqueness of narrator's voice. The rest of the stories were more mystical and thus more similar to One Hundred Years of Solitude, which I don't like as much. Worth reading.
Of course I had to read a book with such a title! The book is pretty short, and is exactly as the title says, the story of poor sweet Erendira, which is abused and mistreated by her awfully cruel grandmother. I truly hated the grandmother and rooted for poor doomed Erendira.
I should stop trying to expand my horizons. I know I don't like short stories, so why keep trying to force it? I can't even tell if you if these short stories were good or not because I didn't "get" them at all. That is, except for Innocent Erendira (the title story) which I liked quite a bit (it was much longer and more developed than the others).
يالله .. لا أصدق أنني أتممت قرائته !!
لا أعرف ما الذي جعلني لا أستسيغ هذا الكتاب
أظنها الترجمة السيئة .. على الغالب
أو ربما أسلوب الكاتب المليء بتراكيب نفسية
و لغة ثالثة ليست موجودة في القواميس
كل ما أعرفه أن مجموعة القصص فيه .. مستواها
بين المتوسط إلى السيء جداً !
لا أعرف ما الذي جعلني لا أستسيغ هذا الكتاب
أظنها الترجمة السيئة .. على الغالب
أو ربما أسلوب الكاتب المليء بتراكيب نفسية
و لغة ثالثة ليست موجودة في القواميس
كل ما أعرفه أن مجموعة القصص فيه .. مستواها
بين المتوسط إلى السيء جداً !
Garcia Marquez is by far one of my favorite writers, and his short stories are even better than his novels. His incredible imagination lends to concise stories, full of layers and things that make you go "hm." Wonderful.
Voy a confesar algo: este libro, al igual que el de Los Funerales de Mamá Grande,me gusta por que me recuerdan a mi abuela paterna. Ella era Mamá Grande y la abuela de Erendira. Una matriarca panameña, mi abuela, con la habilidad de dominar a su familia hasta su último aliento.
I particularly enjoy García Márquez in short segments, which is why I find all of his short stories to be absolutely amazing...particularly if one has lived in or visited South America.
A collection of short stories, not as good as some of his others. But, still there are some great gems. All the stories have some connection to death.
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Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez is a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist. García Márquez, familiarly known as "Gabo" in his native country, is considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century. In 1982, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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“The woman stayed on her stool, silent, concentrating, watching the man's movements with an air of declining sadness. Watching him as a lamp about to go out might have looked at a man.”
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“She returned many years later. So much time had passed that the smell of musk in the room had blended in with the smell of the dust, with the dry and tiny breath of the insects. I was alone in the house, sitting in the corner, waiting. And I had learned to make out the sound of rotting wood, the flutter of the air becoming old in the closed bedrooms. That was when she came.”
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