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Julian Reyes
@julian-reyes · Mexico City, Mexico · Joined August 2024
Owns three editions of One Hundred Years of Solitude and defends all of them.
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One Hundred Years of Solitude · 5 out of 5
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Everyone warns you about the repeated names, and everyone is right. But the repetition is the point: Macondo forgets and so the Buendías repeat themselves. I read the Rabassa translation this time and the opening paragraph still stopped me for a full minute.
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Which translation of One Hundred Years of Solitude do you read?
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