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“Exquisitely harrowing . . . very strange and brilliantly conceived . . .a sort of metaphysical murder mystery.”—The New York Times Book Review

“This investigation of an ancient murder takes on the quality of a hallucinatory exploration, a deep, groping search into the gathering darkness of human intentions for a truth that continually slithers away.” –The New York Review of Books

“Brilliant . . . A small masterpiece . . . we can almost see, smell and hear Garcia Marquez’s Caribbean backwater and its inhabitants.”—San Francisco Chronicle

“As pungent and memorable as a sharp spice, an examination of the nature of complicity and fate . . . an exquisite performance.” –The Christian Science Monitor

"A tour de force . . . In prose that is spare yet heavy with meaning, Garcia Marquez gives us not merely a chronicle but a portrait of the town and its collective psyche . . . not merely a family but an entire culture.” –The Washington Post Book World



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"EXQUISITELY HARROWING . . . . Very strange and brilliantly conceived. . . . A sort of metaphysical murder mystery. . . . The murder will stand among the innumerable murders of modern literature as one of the best and most powerfully rendered."
A mysterious and haunting tale of romance and murder, that begins with the marriage of a man and a woman in love. But when he inexplicably mistreats his beloved on the night of the wedding, he is in turn murdered by her brothers, and we are left with a strange sense of inevitability and passions gone terribly awry.


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4.0étoiles sur 5 Fuenteovejuna did it ?, Mai 15 2004
Par bel_78 "Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfa... (Buenos Aires, Argentina) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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This review is from: Chronicle of a Death Foretold (Paperback)
How can an author keep the reader interested in his book when he gives away the ending in the first page?. Well, he needs to be an extraordinary writer, with the ability to enthrall the reader completely. Of course, not everybody can do that, but the truth is that the author of this book isn't "everybody". Gabriel García Márquez was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982, and he clearly deserved it. You can easily see that if you read some of the many master pieces he wrote: this is just one of them.

"Chronicle of a Death Foretold" has many ingredients that make it a wonderful book. In my opinion the most important ones are García Marquez's brilliant prose, and the risk he took by doing the unthinkable: bluntly telling the reader the end of the story in the first pages of the book. However, I think I should also highlight that the story itself is excellent: a wedding, a bride returned to her family in disgrace, her brothers forced by their code of honor to kill her previous lover, and announcing to all that want to hear them that they intend to do so. This is indeed the "Chronicle of a Death Foretold"... Everyone knows who is going to die, except for the intended victim and his mother.

On the whole, this book is incredibly good and somewhat picturesque. The story takes place many years ago, in a provincial town with different values from those we have nowadays, and García Márquez manages to make the reader understand that. I couldn't ignore the sense of fatalism that pervades the book, probably due to the fact that something is already certain: things will turn out badly in the end.

Despite that, even though we know from the first page what is going to happen, we still want to find out why did it happen. There is another pertinent question: who were the culprits?. The girl's brothers or the whole town, that knowing what they were going to do didn't stop them?. In Lope de Vega's words, I believe that "Fuenteovejuna did it"... But that is merely a personal opinion.

My advice?. Buy this book, read it, and reach your own conclusions. You are highly likely to enjoy the process :)

Belen Alcat

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4.0étoiles sur 5 A metaphysical murder mystery, Avril 28 2004
Par Philippe Horak (Zug, Switzerland) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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This review is from: Chronicle of a Death Foretold (Paperback)
A man returns to the town where the murder of Santiago Nasar took place 27 years before.
Santiago Nasar got up at five-thirty in the morning on the Monday he was going to be killed by the twins Pedro and Pablo Vicario. The narrator is told by Placida Linero, Santiago Nasar's mother, that within the hour, her 21 year old son would be dead.
Why did the twins want to kill the proprietor of The Divine Face, the ranch he had inherited from his father? Why did they chose that particular morning, when the bishop was due to visit the village? Why wasn't Santiago Nasar aware of the fact that somebody had shoved an envelope under the door of his house with a written document warning him that he was going killed, stating in addition the place, the motive and other quite precise details of the plot? How could the murder have been committed despite the fact that nearly all the inhabitants of the town knew that it was inevitably going to happen?
The investigation of this murder takes the quality of a hallucinatory exploration into the past. The narrator's quest for the truth leads him into the darkness of human intentions, a truth that perpetually seems to slither away. This small masterpiece is one of the greatest classics of the 20th century.
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4.0étoiles sur 5 Engaging story about fate, love, women, and culture, Avril 21 2004
Par A. Qureshi "purple-ruby" (Santa Clara, CA) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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This review is from: Chronicle of a Death Foretold (Paperback)
This novella just grabs you and sucks you in until you've finished the last page. I read this book for a book club and I think I enjoyed it even more because I had a chance to discuss the engaging language and themes with other readers. After all, there's so much to be said about characters such as Angela Vicario, whose mother said that her daughters were perfect because "any man will be happy with them because they've been raised to suffer." The depiction of women and love is not unique to the Latin American culture, but Gabriel Garcia Marquez's language makes it more vivid and captivating. The story is apparently based loosely on a true event, which makes it all the more intriguing. It's about a man whose imminent death is discussed throughout the town that he lives in, yet no one is able to stop it or at least warn him about it. I started reading it and got to around page 15 when I realized I wasn't paying enough attention and had to start over again from the beginning. I've heard of quite a few people getting off to a slow start with it. There are a lot of different names thrown at you, and though it's a chronicle, it's not chronological, so it's a story that needs to be read with some focus. Once you're in that focused mindset though, it's a quick read and I highly recommend it.
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4.0étoiles sur 5 Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Yet another gem from Marquez. I'll admit though, at first I was a little bored with it, but I think that is more because I just read three novellas by him in two days. Read more
Publié le Janv. 16 2004 par Damian Kelleher

5.0étoiles sur 5 A surprising complexity
The popular notion is that Love in the Time of Cholera may be Gabriel Garcia-Marquez's best book, and that One Hundred Years of Solitude is the one that made him famous. Read more
Publié le Sep 1 2003 par Eric J. Lyman

4.0étoiles sur 5 Death in Garcia Marquez style
Garcia Marquez once again delights his readers in this short novel, written with a lot of irony and humour. Read more
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5.0étoiles sur 5 A Death Foretold
Not quite a mystery because the readers know who the murderers are on the se3cond page, Garcia-Márquez writes in his classic newspaper-like narrative style to detail the events... Read more
Publié le Jui 19 2003 par Jay

3.0étoiles sur 5 Review
The book was somewhat interesting but very well written. The book was told from a, for me, new point of view. Read more
Publié le Jui 4 2003 par Chris Bates

5.0étoiles sur 5 Very good book...
Chronicle of a Death Foretold is an account of the killing of Santiago Nasar. He was stabbed to death by twin brothers Pedro and Pablo Vicario for a perceived offense against the... Read more
Publié le Mai 13 2003 par Set Peña

1.0étoiles sur 5 terrible book that leaves me with a bad taste afterwards
I had to read this book for my eleventh grade honors english class. I love to read when given a good book, however this has been one of the worst books that I have ever had to... Read more
Publié le Mars 4 2003 par Jeremy

5.0étoiles sur 5 A masterpiece
This short novel by GMM is about the inability or unwillingness of people to communicate and take responsibility, and by extension, about their indifference to one... Read more
Publié le Fév 2 2003 par antoine

4.0étoiles sur 5 Excellent novella
While Gabriel Garcia Marquez shows is impeccable at filling his lengthy novels with a wide variety of important aspects of the human experience, his novellas show that the... Read more
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