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🎠 Don Quixote: https://cutt.ly/cmNjoK4
🇫🇷 Les Misérables: https://cutt.ly/J3YixoA
📖 Middlemarch Serial Reading: https://tinyurl.com/45rv965c
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0:00 why read One Hundred Years of Solitude?
1:00 One Hundred Years of Solitude Netflix review
2:00 required reading for the entire human race
3:00 how to read Gabriel García Márquez
5:00 welcome to the world of Macondo
6:00 a multi-generational family saga
7:00 history as a cyclical nightmare
8:00 the fantastical nature of the narrative
8:30 Nobel Prize for Literature 1982
9:00 how did the story first come to life?
10:00 life and writing of García Márquez
11:00 appreciating the opening line together
12:00 ‘many years later, as he faced the firing squad’
13:00 Gabriel García Márquez writing routine
13:30 the influence of grandmother’s stories
15:00 communal reading and reading aloud
17:00 how the novel became a bestseller
19:00 what does magical realism mean?
20:00 romance in the literary tradition
20:30 three horsemen of the Renaissance
21:30 influence of Cervantes’ Don Quixote
23:00 appreciating the birth of realism
25:00 alchemical beauty of magical realism
26:00 magical realism’s generic definition
26:30 influence of Franz Kafka’s stories
27:00 influence of Juan Rulfo’s Pedro Páramo
28:00 how to appreciate magical realism
29:00 fiction as lie that points to the truth
30:00 symbolism as literalising metaphors
31:00 magical realism speaks truth to power
33:00 genre as historical and political lens
34:00 gateway to Latin American Literature
36:00 how social revolution connects writers
37:00 the Boom in Latin American Literature
37:00 thinking about the Cuban Revolution
38:00 Gregory Rabassa recommended translation
40:00 Latin Literature during the Cold War
41:00 García Márquez and Fidel Castro
42:00 García Márquez and Mario Vargas Llosa
42:30 how history repeats through revolution
43:30 Latin American Nobel Prize winners
45:00 the influence of Jorge Luis Borges
46:00 compression and subtext in Solitude
46:30 the tradition of the short story form
47:00 cognitive power in Borges’ stories
47:30 appreciating ‘The Library of Babel’
48:30 non-linear cyclical narrative techniques
49:00 the influence of William Faulkner
49:30 Yoknapatawpha County vs Macondo
50:30 on modernism vs post-modernism
52:00 strange temporality in the 20th century
53:00 relative and subjective nature of time
54:00 why you need to read this novel slowly
55:00 great literature puts life in perspective
57:00 classical allusions and biblical archetypes
59:00 influence of Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex
1:00:00 theme of fate and future already written
1:01:00 Colombian and Latin American History
1:02:00 Macondo as microcosm for Colombia
1:04:00 early settlements in Colombia
1:05:00 why the characters have the same names
1:06:00 la violencia in Colombian history
1:07:00 liberal-conservative thousand days war
1:07:30 inspiration for Colonel Aureliano Buendía
1:09:30 on the banana massacre of 1928
1:12:00 selective memory and forgetting history
1:13:00 two reader responses to magical realism
1:14:00 what if you dislike magical realism?
1:15:00 the sublime payoff in this story
1:16:00 the aspect I value most about this novel
1:17:00 estrangement and defamiliarisation
1:18:00 how to read fiction scripturally
1:19:00 recommended pacing for this novel
1:19:30 reading Ovid’s Metamorphoses together
1:20:00 Gabriel García Márquez book club lectures
1:20:30 expressing my deepest gratitude for you
1:21:00 your experience with this masterpiece?