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What do you think about the literary technique used in this novel?

Bambino I normally make a fire when my house is cold. In this novel Marquez decided to make a fire at every single moment. So, even in summertime, when the ho…moreI normally make a fire when my house is cold. In this novel Marquez decided to make a fire at every single moment. So, even in summertime, when the house is already boiling, Marquez keeps on throwing wood into the fireplace. The result is, of course, great comfort in the winter and some painful moments in the summer.

So it's summer, you're sweating and dehydrating, an Marquez is there keeping the fire high while sharing some of the most beautiful poems you have ever heard. Yes, the poems are amazing, but, definitely, something is out of place in that scorching tenement and you just feel like running outside.

In any form of art we can see that concepts, when taken to extremes, asphyxiate beauty. This book is a fine example of that.(less)

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