Reviews

La hojarasca by Gabriel García Márquez

uutopicaa's review against another edition

3.0

Dejemos algo en claro: Gabriel García Márquez es un gran escritor, aunque no se encuentre ni por casualidad entre mis preferidos. Sus historias están muy bien planeadas, tiene excelentes narradores y sabe cómo pasearnos por algo monótono, pero haciéndolo sentir especial. Eso, es mágico.

Creo que es un libro que podría haberse ordenado mejor. Sí, ese es el problema: lo siento desordenado.

Me hubiese gustado saber quién me habla y cuándo porque la verdad es que los narradores cambian abruptamente y sin previo aviso.
Me habría encantado que los diálogos no fuesen iguales que los pensamientos. La mitad de las veces están con guiones y la otra mitad con comillas (y no es porque sean indirectos, es aleatorio).
Me encantaría tener una forma de saber cuándo se narra en paralelo y cuando con avance temporal.

Pero bueno, la historia es genial. Los personajes son espectaculares. Únicos. Es una historia que representa un fragmento de un momento en la vida de tres personas y nada más. No tiene un "conflicto con resolución" y muchas preguntas quedan sin resolver. Comienza y termina en cualquier instante para mostrarnos que los personajes tenían su vida antes de empezar la novela y que seguirán haciendo sus cosas luego del final.

Creo que lo que muchos critican es lo que a mí más me ha gustado de la obra. Debo ser un bicho raro.

Y como dije al comienzo, respeto al autor y a sus ideas, pero el estilo narrativo de esta novela no me ha convencido.

¿Quieren saber más de la obra? Pueden leer la reseña completa en mi blog http://pardonmispanglish.blogspot.com/2017/09/resena-la-hojarasca-gabriel-garcia.html#more

beeeeonka's review against another edition

challenging reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

flelix's review against another edition

dark reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.25

meebus1's review against another edition

emotional mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

lucasangonesi_epub's review against another edition

emotional mysterious reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

Slow, hard, deterrent but at the same time intriguing and with good narrative and environment constructing. The beggining and middle are better than the ending... It takes too long to finish and to reveal important information. It's painfully slow at the very end.

alice_harp's review against another edition

challenging emotional mysterious reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

I read One Hundred Years of Solitude and loved it - I picked up Leaf Storm as a way to reintroduce myself to Gabriel Garcia Marquez. I found this pretty slow going! The quite wordy stream of consciousness writing style is a bit tougher to get into when you're out of practice or not used to it I think. I enjoyed the mystery of the plot and really getting inside the heads of the characters, and I liked that some of their motives weren't fully explained. I think the lack of plot in this compared to One Hundred Years made me enjoy it less though, even though One Hundred Years is harder to follow given the number of characters with the same names!

maria_94's review against another edition

reflective sad

4.0

an_treides's review against another edition

dark informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

catarinalobo's review against another edition

4.0

The book is a good intro to Gabo’s world: Macondo, death, solitude, the latin america athmosfere...

Although, Gabo’s style is not very refined in this one - because it is his first work. It is not relly magic realism yeat, but gives a nice view of what is coming.

rebecadavila's review against another edition

emotional lighthearted reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0