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Written just before One Hundred Years of Solitude, this fascinating novel of a Colombian river town possessed by evil points to the author's later flowering and greatness. --Ce texte provient de la Paperback �dition.

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Written just before One Hundred Years of Solitude, this fascinating novel of a Columbian river town possessed by evil points to the author's later flowering and greatness.ace, the colorful idiosyncrasy of character are present for us to marvel over once again."--New Republic. --Ce texte provient de la Paperback �dition.

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3.0�toiles sur 5 Lays the groundwork for later works, Mai 12 2004

Par	Matthew M. Yau "Voracious reader" (San Francisco, CA) - Voir tous mes commentaires (REAL NAME)

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(***1/2) In Evil Hour is one of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's earliest works, through virtues of wit and compassion, the rich and dreamy portrait of a mythical town, in one way or another the book preludes to the most successful One Hundred Years of Solitude. In this short novel, incendiary lampoons infested a Columbian riverside town and traduced its most respected citizens. It began as Cesar Montero marched into the house of Pastor and gunned down its master after reading a crumpled note revealing secret of an affair. What followed was an ineluctable transformation of the town that deceit, murder, inveigle, and violence replaced the inveterate tranquility.

The tooth pain-afflicted mayor, the doctor, and Father Angel joined in a cooperative effort to identify and locate the lampoon posters while the town strenuously clung onto the last spindle of sanity. Curfew was enforced and any suspected personnel was jailed for alleged lampoon spreading. A list of all residents who had not had lampoons put up on whom was compiled. Authorities turned to card reading to divine the origin of the traduces. The entire tale is inexorably redolent of a quiet, throbbing paranoia as the result of the lampoons, which haunted and rendered everyone insomniac.

The book, though not as flourishing as its successor (One Hundred Years of Solitude), riddles with life trivialities, constant desires for confession and absolution, and ominous signs in the minute episodes that shape daily life. Though somewhat slow-moving and trite at parts, In Evil Hour has the virtues of wit and reveals the foundation upon which the author based in his later novels - vision of some mythical small town being haunted by bits and pieces and waves of political upheaval. Characters are mere instruments and vehicles with which Marquez wrote against government oppression.

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3.0�toiles sur 5 "God's mercy is another way of beating us up", Sep 21 2002

Par	Enrique Torres "Rico" (San Diegotitlan, Califas) - Voir tous mes commentaires (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)

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This short novel is a good but not great. I found it difficult to get into in spite of it's brevity. The book captures the imagination but on a limited scope as the plot is a little convoluted to say the least. I found myself along the way wondering where the story was going as GGM meandered along revealing bits and pieces of his vision of a small town caught up in the grips of the harsh political climate in Colombia. I didn't think any one character was dominant enough nor for that matter were any in particular shown to have much depth. Coming from the Latin American literary giant GGM I was a bit dissappointed. I suppose the characters were not as important as the overall sense of fear cast by an oppresive government which is in search of dissidents while the mice that are menacing the church scurry about at night as the people do likewise under a curfew. The ominous tension created by GGM is the reality that many have to live under in Latini America and the author shows the depth of that fear resides not only in big cities but in small towns as well. Persecution exists in every level of society and GGM shows that even in a sleepy, pictureque little town near the river the serenity of nature can be disrupted by evil. Recommended for those that like GGM and a glimpse at a precursor to "One Hundred Years of Solitude."

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4.0�toiles sur 5 a gripping idea, but not very well written, Sep 10 2001

Par	Alicja (Poland, Europe) - Voir tous mes commentaires

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It took me only a few hours to read this book. I find the idea of this book really interesting- it's not the magical realism that we know from other books by Marquez. However, no other book has drew me into its action in such a way that , while reading, I actually felt I was sharing the fear and the sense of terror that came over the citizens of the town. And that's something!
I didn't like the way it was written, though.The sentences were neither cohesive nor precise. Maybe it's the translation, although I must say I didn't read the English one.

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3.0�toiles sur 5 Good Book, Slow Plot
I found this book to be pretty good, but it was lacking in terms of a plot, which made reading it tedious. I would recommend this for someone who is more of an avid reader. Read more

Publi� le F�v 4 2001 par Amy Housley

2.0�toiles sur 5 Disjointed plot doesn't satisfy
I was expecting a lot more from this book. I didn't find it particularly interesting, I never connected with the plot, and I'm not even sure there is a plot. Read more

Publi� le Mars 15 2000 par Vaca

4.0�toiles sur 5 No like the end
I really did not like the end of this novel. I was expectin a better ending. I do not know, I just did not feel that it filled my expectations about the kind of ending that this... Read more

Publi� le Janv. 24 2000 par harrison aquino

4.0�toiles sur 5 It's a pretty good book
I don't read much but I enjoyed this book. It taught me something about another place that I didn't know anything thing about. Read more

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