Saturday, September 03, 2005
Mea culpa
Currently I keep vacillating between Shalimar the Clown and Alice in Wonderland. Both will perhaps help me recover from another Marquez read which I finished labouriously. I saw labouriously because some how I am yet to get past my mental barrier of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Yes yes am aware of what I am admitting and that too on such a public platform.
I,of course, did complete one sole Marquez before I picked up Love in the Time of Cholera. And I would not even dream of revieiwing the book. Its far too lilting, poetic and took me far too long to complete it. The finer nuances were long lost , save the parts I read over and over again to jog my memory (yes they were many).
Characters with superb delicious quirks and unrequited love and passage of time in decades - yes the book has most Marquez elements. In fact Marquez is the only authour (for me) where the sheer size of the novel acts as a huge barrier. But I liked this book enough to venture reading 100 years of solitude again or try to read to it again atleast.
I,of course, did complete one sole Marquez before I picked up Love in the Time of Cholera. And I would not even dream of revieiwing the book. Its far too lilting, poetic and took me far too long to complete it. The finer nuances were long lost , save the parts I read over and over again to jog my memory (yes they were many).
Characters with superb delicious quirks and unrequited love and passage of time in decades - yes the book has most Marquez elements. In fact Marquez is the only authour (for me) where the sheer size of the novel acts as a huge barrier. But I liked this book enough to venture reading 100 years of solitude again or try to read to it again atleast.
