Posted by noa on September 13, 2003, at 13:06:25
In reply to Anyone read Salman Rushie or Gabriel Marquez, posted by almondjoy on September 13, 2003, at 0:57:55
I read "One Hundred Years of Solitude" and loved it. I have some friends that also loved it and some who just don't like 'magical realism' so they couldn't stand it. I read it a long time ago, I think at least a dozen years, but there are still images that come to mind from the book sometimes when people say certain things--usually they are the kind of typical ordinary things people tend to say in every day conversation that Marquez kind of takes the core human universality of and explodes it into something rather mythic and surreal. I have a ready example to give but if you're going to read it, I'll hold off so it won't spoil it for you.
I've read "Shame: A Novel"
by Salman Rushdie, which I liked and which predates "The Satanic Verses", as well as some of his short stories (sorry, don't remember any titles).
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