Jeff, I am late on seeing this post or I would have linked to it in my own article this week. I enjoyed reading the historical perspective behind the story.
I fell for the propaganda that "magical realism" was poor. I realise now how much the US propaganda is taken up by the British Press, who have become little more than mouthpieces for our governments, and totally pro-America. I have missed out on reading South American literature because of this anti-communist blether. Since reading Gorbachev, I have realised what nonsense the Americans talk. Recently, when Obama was in, we had to hear his plans for medicare in the US compared to "the British NHS, a Communist organisation". When Johnson was PM, they Americans wanted a trade deal as long as we allowed them access to NHS as commercial partners. This was the point at which mistrust tipped over into actual desire for us to loosen the American yoke.
Anyway, I'm off to source some of Marquez's books. Thanks for a deep, insightful look at Marquez, and I'm hoping this is the start of more indepth articles about the Nobel Prize. I think it will be less pressure on you, and more informative for us.
Jeff, I am late on seeing this post or I would have linked to it in my own article this week. I enjoyed reading the historical perspective behind the story.
I fell for the propaganda that "magical realism" was poor. I realise now how much the US propaganda is taken up by the British Press, who have become little more than mouthpieces for our governments, and totally pro-America. I have missed out on reading South American literature because of this anti-communist blether. Since reading Gorbachev, I have realised what nonsense the Americans talk. Recently, when Obama was in, we had to hear his plans for medicare in the US compared to "the British NHS, a Communist organisation". When Johnson was PM, they Americans wanted a trade deal as long as we allowed them access to NHS as commercial partners. This was the point at which mistrust tipped over into actual desire for us to loosen the American yoke.
Anyway, I'm off to source some of Marquez's books. Thanks for a deep, insightful look at Marquez, and I'm hoping this is the start of more indepth articles about the Nobel Prize. I think it will be less pressure on you, and more informative for us.