Garcia Books

Una selección interesante de relatos, pero no exactamente los mejores, aunque haya maestros innegables como Borges, Cortázar o Rulfo.

Love in the Time of Cholera is an excellent book that depicts the power of romantic love and explores the realities of married life in a humorous matter. The narrator approaches Florentino's obsession and Fermina's marriage with a comical approach. Still managing to show a connection between the characters and those who read the book. Florentino Ariza, devotes his entire life to the pursuit of a women he has only spoken to a couple of times and has never been alone with. He waits fity years for Fermina's husband to die so he can finally win over the heart of the women he loves. That is not all that makes this book so interesting. Fermina Daza and Dr. Urbino Juvenal are married throughout those fifty years that Florentino waits for Fermina. Although their marriage is based on petty power trips, small acts of kindness, practical love and infidelity they never forget that they love and need one another. Dont get me wrong Florentino isn't so innocent himself. Even though he waits an eternity for her or so he calls it he doesn't do it alone. Through out his waiting period, he has 622 liaisons and counting with very weird sexual fetishes. This story ends in a comic way the same way it started and continued throughout the story. Why don't you read it for yourself to see if love does prevail after all? Believe me you won't regret it.

I have just read this short story in Spanish, though in a Penguin book of Short Stories in Spanish with parallel text in English. It has a "mysterious realism" with Maria's intuition. A good easy read and thought provoking.

The ending is ambiguous, Maria has been expecting death, having interpreted her dreams, but finds something else worth waiting for. With a short story there is no harm in "giving away" a twist at the end, but worth debating what the ending means.

I am deciding whether:
(a) She has found somone to love and end her loneliness.
(b) The Franco regime has got her. There are lots of references to the Republican heroes and their unmarked graves, she writes on their names in lipstick when she thinks the guards are not watching. The story refers to State Agents shooting dead a student who wrote "Visca Catalunya lliure" on a wall. Could imprisonment for the cause be the ending worth waiting for so many years? Is the car that picked her up a secret service car?

Enrique's book is a very good example of how to condense in an easy to read book the A to Z of incentive marketing in Spanish. We are using it as a welcome pack to new employees in our Incentive Company. Good work!!

Miguel Yacobi - ThinkSmart

An intimate look (although admittedly a bit biased, as the writer was an admirer of Leonide Massine)at a man who was a premier male dancer and chief choreographer of European ballet from 1914 through 1939. Historian Vicente Garcia-Marquez helps to ensure that Massine is recognized for his role in 20th century ballet history, as a dancer who collaborated with other prominent figures such as Diaghilev, Straveinsky, Falla, Cocteau, Pcasso, Matisse, Miro and Dali...among others. High points of the book include vintage photos and passages such as these, where Massine, while dancing, gives insight into the creative process of ballet: "I felt instinctively that something more than perfect technique was needed here, but it was not until I had worked myself up into a frenzy that I was able to transcent my usual limitations. I felt an almost electrical interaction between myself and the spectators....until I was dancing with a sustained force that seemed far beyond my reach at other times."

I give "Message to Garcia" to new Management employees of our Town. The message is "brief" which I feel is important, and clear. It demonstrates what I expect of our Management Team players.

Fred Allyn, Jr.
Town of Ledyard Ct
Mayor

I put some time aside to listen to this book and was glad I did. Although a bit long for me after listening to the book it was time well spent.

Cuernavaca is a paradise city near Mexico City. This guide is a necesary tool for the foreign tourist and maybe local people because Morelos is growing up so fast. If yo come to Morelos don't do it without this guide.

It's about time someone would write up a profound review onsuch a profound director. Such a book should be almost the cinematiccontra to the excellent review, "Rhetoric of fiction", by Wayne C. Booth, where he examines the question: "Where does the real story lie?", to which th answer is, ofcourse, in the reader/viewer's mind, and not on the screen, or in the pages of the book. But this book is not such... Such examples are lacking in the book, which is very interesting, there's no mistake in it, but it doesn't examine the purpose of such narrative and stylistic tools, but only very broadly points them out.

Still, very good.

Hay muchos cuentos en este libro. Uno es "Amor indígena" en la venganza del cóndor. En este cuento leemos un cuento de tres hombres que viajan por la sierra Peruana. Aprendamos en clase que esta obra fue escrita en Francia en el siglo XX. García Calderón tiene una opinión hostil hacia la sierra Andina. Él escribió esta obra como una representación negativa de la vida Peruana para los europeos.
En el cuento, hay un narrador, un señor feudal y un comerciante. El señor feudal y el comerciante viajan con el narrador y son mestizos o indígenas porque saben quechua. El narrador del cuento es un intelectual urbano. Al narrador, la sierra Peruana es exótico y todo es debajo su control.
En el cuento, el narrador tiene nostalgia para los años de la conquista. Él representa la perspectiva de los conquistadores y europeos cuando ellos llegaron a América. Él quiere vivir como los conquistadores (sus antepasados) que usan las mujeres indígenas para hartar sus deseos sin amor o remordimiento. El narrador piensa que "estaba enamorada" porque él vio una "india primorosa como las que sedujeron a los conquistadores."
No sabemos mucho de la indiecita porque el autor no da cuenta de sus sentimientos, su humanidad o su valor. Aprendemos a algunos aspectos de su vida, pero no en mucha detalle. Al fin, el papel de ella es ser una fantasía para el narrador.
Pienso que este cuento demostró cómo algunos europeos han deshumanizado los indígenas. Creo que el narrador es muy chauvinista porque piensa que tiene el poder total y que las mujeres indias están allí solamente para le sedujo. Pienso que era inapropiada que él dió gracias a sus antepasados para violar mujeres. Sin embargo, es la opinión del narrador y del autor y necesitamos a tratar de comprenderla.