As I'm sure many of you are noticing while you read 100 Years of Solitude, there's a lot happening in this book and a lot of it doesn't always make sense. Gabriel Garcia Marquez is writing in a style called "magical realism," a genre we will talk about a lot tomorrow. I wanted to kickstart your thinking about this and about 100 Years of Solitude in general with another really fantastic Crash Course video on the book featuring YA novelist John Green:
As I work to prepare for tomorrow's class, I'm realizing I am genuinely more excited to talk about this text than any other text we've delved into so far. I haven't read this book since college myself, and I am overwhelmed by how complex, gorgeous, difficult, and well, magical, this book really is.
See you all tomorrow!
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