i love 100 years of solitude and couldn't get through love in the time of cholera, but i know this is a contraversial question.
2007-06-28 21:49:14 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
I also liked A 100 yrs of Solitude the best of the books of his I've read, and he did win the Nobel Prize for Literature for it !! It started off a whole new way of writing in Latin America.
2007-06-28 22:36:10 · answer #1 · answered by curious239 3 · 2⤊ 3⤋
I prefer "Love in the Time of Cholera" to "100 Years of Solitude". There're some reasons, that is, I could enjoy reading the whole story of the first romantic novel, maybe I think it's the good, wonderful translation by Edith Grossman whereas I've been struggling with the second one (translated by another scholar) off and on for months. I know it's been claimed as his best, therefore, I'd give you a final verdict when I finish reading it soon, I hope.
2007-06-29 07:28:26 · answer #2 · answered by Arigato ne 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Reading other's answers I can see it's to choose between 100 years of solitude and Love in the time of cholera. I didn't finish last one yet, so I guess it's 100 years of solitude, because that book moved me in personal way and I really liked it, no matter to critics. You should also pay attention to other works of GG Marquez if you like him as writer, for example Chronicle of death foretold, etc., because there you will also find the same reasons for loving his work.
2007-06-29 08:17:49 · answer #3 · answered by Jelena L. 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think One Hundred years of solitude is highly overrated. Some critics have compared it to the Bible!
I find that Love in the Time of Cholera, and The General in his Labyrinth (this one is about Bolivar and my GGM personal favorite) are far superior.
At any rate, four other Latin American writers were Nobel Prize winners: Mistral, Paz, Neruda and Asturias. And then, the best four Latin American writers of the 20th century did not win it: Borges, Cortazar, Carpentier and Vargas Llosa.
There's a lesson there somewhere.
2007-06-29 07:25:51 · answer #4 · answered by Letizia 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I really loved the short story "A very old man with enormous wings" and watched the used book stores for any of his longer works. I got The general in his labyrinth, and with many laborious efforts have never gotten through it. I found it so dry and disappointing. I guess I need to go online and get 100 years instead to assuage my disappointment.
2007-06-29 08:40:53 · answer #5 · answered by Exhausted all known sources 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My favourite is Love in the time of the cholera, cause its a true story about his parents romance, kind and tender.
2007-06-29 06:01:37 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
100 years is considered the 2nd good book written in spanish, after Don Quixote. I beleive i've answered your question.
2007-06-29 05:25:57 · answer #7 · answered by Dimitrios 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋