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I read this earlier this year for the first time and tbh i thought it stunk. The "magical realism" felt mostly sterile and flat, the ethic is horrendously cynical, and a lot of it was legitimately really gross like the dirt eating and child r*pe. I have dramatically been asking everyone I know who had read it why they think it's so good and have yet to have anyone give me a satisfactory answer and I'm pretty convinced that I'm the only person in the world who has actually read this disgusting book.
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Like most media, its overall popularity is a result of when and where it came from. The genre and scope of the book were unique at the time.
It's kinda like how Blair Witch makes "top horror" lists, but it sort of sucks unless you experienced the viral marketing and uncertainty of whether it was actually real. Now found footage horror movies are commonplace, so it's been surpassed.
Anyway, I think the book does a good job of conveying the sense of wonder and endless possibilities a pre-government, pre-technology jungle settlement.
There are plenty of memorable characters and tragic storylines.
Remedios, who is so beautiful that men kill themselves, and she eventually ascends to heaven.
Pietro Crespi, a hopeless romantic pianola that falls in love with two members of the family and kills himself after being spurned by both.
Aureliano, who possesses infinite knowledge, and prophesies the end of the family.
The characters have outlandish motivations and traits. Everyone is having s*x regardless of age and relation. It's just a unique experience that paved the way for the genre.
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I appreciate the response. I figured that there was a certain amount of "needing to be there" for it. I absolutely get where you're coming from that something that is revolutionary becomes mundane after it's been copied 100 times.
There were definitely brightspots, but the outlandish motivations made it difficult to emphasize with many of the characters and the scenes were grotesque to the point that reading it was legitimately pretty unpleasant. The morality of Mocondo really turns me off from the book also. The whole book felt very matter-of-factly fatalist. Man is base, things are degenerating from Eden, when it looks like things are improving they are actually getting worse, men will always want to frick their mothers or gorgeous r-slurs. Very life-denying, imo.
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