Nossos espelhos, nossas histórias.

Foto de Gabriel Garcia Marques extraida de: caminhosparafelicidade.wordpress.com

Se você gosta de leitura de qualidade não será difícil entender o sentimento de  “orfandade” que se tem quando os escritores dos quais nos orgulhamos, vão se esvaindo pouco a pouco de nossas bibliotecas.

Nessa semana perdemos Ivan Lessa que apesar de morar em Londres continuava escrevendo para o Brasil e estamos perdendo Gabriel Garcia Marques, prêmio Nobel de Literatura, cuja família confessou a luta contra o Alzheimer (doença que tem levado suas mais belas memórias da vida).

Se nunca teve a honra de ler “Cem Anos de Solidão” de Gabriel Garcia Marques, eis aqui uma chance de conhecer o enredo in English.

One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) is the story of seven generations of the Buendía Family in the town of  Macondo. The founding patriarch of Macondo, José Arcadio Buendía, and Úrsula, his wife (and first cousin), leave Riohacha, Colombia, to find a better life and a new home. One night of their emigration journey, whilst camping on a riverbank, José Arcadio Buendía dreams of "Macondo", a city of mirrors that reflected the world in and about it. Upon awakening, he decides to found Macondo at the river side; after days of wandering the jungle, José Arcadio Buendía's founding of Macondo is utopic.

Founding patriarch José Arcadio Buendía believes Macondo to be surrounded by water, and from that island, he invents the world according to his perceptions. Soon after its foundation, Macondo becomes a town frequented by unusual and extraordinary events that involve the generations of the Buendía family, who are unable or unwilling to escape their periodic (mostly) self-inflicted misfortunes. Ultimately, a hurricane destroys Macondo, the city of mirrors; just the cyclical turmoil inherent to Macondo. At the end of the story, a Buendía man deciphers an encrypted cipher that generations of Buendía family men had failed to decipher. The secret message informed the recipient of every fortune and misfortune lived by the Buendía Family generations.

Extracted from www.wikipedia.org

Good week