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Real Rating: 4.75* of five
I can't full-five a book I read three decades ago in the midst of my Latin-American-delights phase. I can tell you that the translation is excellent, captures the spirit of the original Spanish if not the literal idioms. It's a brief book but not a light one, in any sense of the word. I suspect lots of readers look at its length and think, "oh goody good good, a shorty and I can say I've read a García Márquez!"
And were they ever sorry.
Fascism was fought back into hidey-holes during our lifetimes for a reason, y'all, and it's oozed back into the public discourse on the fears and hates of ignorant people yet again. The Left, bunch of elitist idiots that we are, has yet again failed to educate those most resistant to book-larnin' in basic decency. Once upon a time, that was the stated aim of religion, so aber natürlich the Fascists co-opted the religiosifiers to spread their hateful, vile, cruel propaganda for them. They did that last time, too, only then it was Catholicism (Father Coughlin in the US, Pius XII ignoring the Holocaust, the Cristeros in Mexico whose scorched-earth civil war led directly to the WWII influx of illegal migrants enduring slavery in US farm fields).
So long as the lowest, the least, and the last are allowed to wrest control of the microphone from their betters, this will continue to happen.
Elitism fully intentional.
I can't full-five a book I read three decades ago in the midst of my Latin-American-delights phase. I can tell you that the translation is excellent, captures the spirit of the original Spanish if not the literal idioms. It's a brief book but not a light one, in any sense of the word. I suspect lots of readers look at its length and think, "oh goody good good, a shorty and I can say I've read a García Márquez!"
And were they ever sorry.
Fascism was fought back into hidey-holes during our lifetimes for a reason, y'all, and it's oozed back into the public discourse on the fears and hates of ignorant people yet again. The Left, bunch of elitist idiots that we are, has yet again failed to educate those most resistant to book-larnin' in basic decency. Once upon a time, that was the stated aim of religion, so aber natürlich the Fascists co-opted the religiosifiers to spread their hateful, vile, cruel propaganda for them. They did that last time, too, only then it was Catholicism (Father Coughlin in the US, Pius XII ignoring the Holocaust, the Cristeros in Mexico whose scorched-earth civil war led directly to the WWII influx of illegal migrants enduring slavery in US farm fields).
So long as the lowest, the least, and the last are allowed to wrest control of the microphone from their betters, this will continue to happen.
Elitism fully intentional.