Chronicle of a Death Foretold
NOBEL PRIZE WINNER - From the author of One Hundred Years of Solitude comes the gripping story of the murder of a young aristocrat that puts an entire society--not just a pair of murderers--on trial. A man returns to the town where a baffling murder took place 27 years earlier, determined to get to the bottom of the story. Just hours after marrying the beautiful Angela Vicario, everyone agrees, Bayardo San Roman returned his bride in disgrace to her parents. Her distraught family forced her to name her first lover; and her twin brothers announced their intention to murder Santiago Nasar for dishonoring their sister. Yet if everyone knew the murder was going to happen, why did no one intervene to stop it? The more that is learned, the less is understood, as the story races to its inexplicable conclusion.
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Wow. [Spoilers!] You are told right away that this is the story of two brothers killing the man who took their sister's virginity out of wedlock, but that's not really it. This is the story of an entire town ruining lives and murdering a man in perfect silent coordination. The brothers clearly don't want to do it and run around town telling everyone their plans so someone will stop them- but no one will. Society does stuff like this all the time. Yes, it is the story of machismo, but it's much more as the entire town reveals all their motives. Santiago Nasar probably didn't take Ángela Vicario's virginity but she didn't want her brothers to murder the actual person so she pointed to a man no one particularly liked. But the thing is the town knows this! And they go out of their way to allow his murder anyway.
"All right girl," he told her, trembling with rage, "tell us who it was."
She only took the time necessary to say the name. She looked for it in the shadows, she found it at first sight among the many, many easily confused names from this world and the other, and she nailed it to the wall with her well-aimed dart, like a butterfly with no will whose sentence has always been written.
"Santiago Nasar," she said.
How is this so gorgeous even after being translated?? Can I just read Marquez forever plz
She only took the time necessary to say the name. She looked for it in the shadows, she found it at first sight among the many, many easily confused names from this world and the other, and she nailed it to the wall with her well-aimed dart, like a butterfly with no will whose sentence has always been written.
"Santiago Nasar," she said.
How is this so gorgeous even after being translated?? Can I just read Marquez forever plz
Absolutely stunning. Márquez crafts a fantastical narrative full of psychological fairytale elements that make it impossible to put the book down. His culture is woven into every page. The journalistic style of writing is refreshing and fits perfectly into the cyclical nature of the book. A beautiful, never ending tragedy.
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