It's big in south american lit. Like 100 days years of Solitude uses it a lot - honestly worth a read even if you hate magical realism, it's one of the world greats up there with War and Peace and shit. Maybe you don't like the more modern magical realism like What We Do In The Shadows (or fucking harry potter lol)? Where there's a masquerade keeping everything secret?
Not to nitpick but it’s 100 years of solitude, 100 años de Soledad, not days. The book takes place over about a hundred years and follows seven generations of a family in a fictional rural town in Colombia. It’s one of my all time favorite books and I’m even really excited for the Netflix adaptation (mini series, hopefully they’re still making it as I haven’t heard anything in years and I hope it doesn’t suck when it does finally come out).
Understandable sentiment, and not sure if Gabo ever would have gone for it himself, but his wife/son who manage his estate did and gave their reasoning.
Basically, they say the reason Garcia Marquez never granted movie rights to his works was two-fold: one, the stories are too long to be squeezed into a feature length film and done justice and two: every time Warner Bros or whoever would come knocking they wanted to make a movie in English.
Netflix was able to show that they could do extended storytelling in Spanish for a global audience with shows like Narcos etc, so the estate agreed. Gabo’s son will be involved with the production, I’m cautiously optimistic that it could be a good adaptation.
Hell yeah. Seriously loved this book. It's the only one I can remember finishing and being completely blown away by. I've gifted it several times even though I don't think anyone I've gifted it to has actually read it.
It was the first full length book I read in Spanish after learning it as a second language (years into learning Spanish after already being fluent in speaking, I decided to start reading novels to continue improving), and yeah it is absolutely incredible. Definitely can be a bit confusing at parts with how many characters have similar or the same names etc but it’s a hundred percent worth it.
Yeah magical realism has the element where supernatural shit happens and it never gets acknowledged as something crazy. Like in 100 years where a ghost shows up and it’s played as a major annoyance and not horror.
And just the assumption that anything strange and unusual is automatically hostile. So many cultures view ghosts as a positive, often helpful phenomena but in white america it's always supposed to be scary.
It's big in south american lit. Like 100
daysyears of Solitude uses it a lot - honestly worth a read even if you hate magical realism, it's one of the world greats up there with War and Peace and shit. Maybe you don't like the more modern magical realism like What We Do In The Shadows (or fucking harry potter lol)? Where there's a masquerade keeping everything secret?Not to nitpick but it’s 100 years of solitude, 100 años de Soledad, not days. The book takes place over about a hundred years and follows seven generations of a family in a fictional rural town in Colombia. It’s one of my all time favorite books and I’m even really excited for the Netflix adaptation (mini series, hopefully they’re still making it as I haven’t heard anything in years and I hope it doesn’t suck when it does finally come out).
:NOOOOO: NETFLIX LEAVE GARCIA MARQUEZ ALONE NOOOO
Understandable sentiment, and not sure if Gabo ever would have gone for it himself, but his wife/son who manage his estate did and gave their reasoning.
Basically, they say the reason Garcia Marquez never granted movie rights to his works was two-fold: one, the stories are too long to be squeezed into a feature length film and done justice and two: every time Warner Bros or whoever would come knocking they wanted to make a movie in English.
Netflix was able to show that they could do extended storytelling in Spanish for a global audience with shows like Narcos etc, so the estate agreed. Gabo’s son will be involved with the production, I’m cautiously optimistic that it could be a good adaptation.
I'm really excited for the next chapter in Gabo Thrones' story. I'm glad Netflix is picking up where HBO fell short.
You know what I mixed it up with 120 days of salo lmao
Lol
Hell yeah. Seriously loved this book. It's the only one I can remember finishing and being completely blown away by. I've gifted it several times even though I don't think anyone I've gifted it to has actually read it.
It was the first full length book I read in Spanish after learning it as a second language (years into learning Spanish after already being fluent in speaking, I decided to start reading novels to continue improving), and yeah it is absolutely incredible. Definitely can be a bit confusing at parts with how many characters have similar or the same names etc but it’s a hundred percent worth it.
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Yeah magical realism has the element where supernatural shit happens and it never gets acknowledged as something crazy. Like in 100 years where a ghost shows up and it’s played as a major annoyance and not horror.
I feel like treating random ass ghosts as a horror thing is very :lmayo:
:lmayo: "Oh no! Something that might not be entirely possible to process into useful resources! I'm scared!"
Laughs in ghost busters :porky-happy:
And just the assumption that anything strange and unusual is automatically hostile. So many cultures view ghosts as a positive, often helpful phenomena but in white america it's always supposed to be scary.
I feel like it starts out that way in the muggle world, but otherwise I'd consider it full fantasy (lib and boring, but fantasy nevertheless)