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A review by gitli57
Collected Stories by Gabriel García Márquez
adventurous
challenging
funny
reflective
3.0
If the title is accurate, I have now read all of GGM's published short stories. While some of them were enjoyable and some were even laugh out loud funny, in all honesty, it is unlikely I will reread many of them.
After decades of periodically returning to his work, less and less Marquez feels really necessary to me, with the exception of One Hundred Years of Solitude. I would be happy to be convinced I am mistaken about that, so please feel free - be nice and don't rely on the importance of "magical realism", which I think is a misnomer. Some of us just experience the world that way and it's not magic just because western science can't figure out how to measure it.
After decades of periodically returning to his work, less and less Marquez feels really necessary to me, with the exception of One Hundred Years of Solitude. I would be happy to be convinced I am mistaken about that, so please feel free - be nice and don't rely on the importance of "magical realism", which I think is a misnomer. Some of us just experience the world that way and it's not magic just because western science can't figure out how to measure it.