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Gabriel Garcia Marquez in Spanish? | ||
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| kieran Newbie United Kingdom Joined 5487 days ago 12 posts - 14 votes Studies: Spanish | Message 1 of 5 12 November 2009 at 11:56pm | IP Logged |
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Where online could I purchase this? and how does it sound in Spanish?
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 meramarina Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5958 days ago 1341 posts - 2303 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Italian, French Personal Language Map | Message 2 of 5 14 November 2009 at 6:54am | IP Logged |
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You can easily locate the works of García Márquez at Amazon, in both English and the original Spanish.
There are also sites used to locate the best price for a given book; the one that comes to mind first is Addall.com He is not too difficult to read if you have studied Spanish. I used some of his shorter stories in intermediate-level Spanish classes. His literary style requires some adjustment; in Cien Años de Soledad, for example, you'll have to deal with seventeen characters with the same name, if I remember correctly! 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| camden Newbie Australia cam-thebrink.blogspoRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5377 days ago 2 posts - 3 votes Speaks: English* | Message 3 of 5 15 March 2010 at 11:51pm | IP Logged |
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He's wonderful in Spanish! I'm intermediate-advanced and just finished El Amor en los Tiempos del Cólera
without too much difficulty - a little afraid of Cien Años de Soledad but one day soon. El Coronel No Tiene Quien Le Escribe is a good place to start, I read it as a lower intermediate and found it just difficult enough - short, snappy sentences, and short enough that you don't get frustrated with it. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Julien71 Tetraglot Groupie United States Joined 5363 days ago 42 posts - 52 votes Speaks: French*, English, German, Spanish Studies: Portuguese, Hungarian | Message 4 of 5 16 March 2010 at 12:49am | IP Logged |
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Could you find any colombianismos in García Márquez's writings?
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| Quabazaa Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5600 days ago 414 posts - 543 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, German, French Studies: Japanese, Korean, Maori, Scottish Gaelic, Arabic (Levantine), Arabic (Egyptian), Arabic (Written) | Message 5 of 5 17 March 2010 at 5:27pm | IP Logged |
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There are heaps of colombianismos, at least in Cien Años de Soledad, which is the only book of his I have read in Spanish. Though most often they are things like plants, fruits, or a particular type of cooking utensil or something, so it's not always necessary for the plot. Definitely worth reading him in Spanish :)
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