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andyarruda's review against another edition
5.0
Tem como ser menos que isso?
Que livro incrível!
aaaii que vontade de procurar cada discurso que Gabo já fez e assistir, participar dessa noção política, sócio-cultural que ele expunha de forma tão lírica e aberta.
Super duper recomendo.
Que livro incrível!
aaaii que vontade de procurar cada discurso que Gabo já fez e assistir, participar dessa noção política, sócio-cultural que ele expunha de forma tão lírica e aberta.
Super duper recomendo.
runawaykid's review against another edition
3.0
"I want to believe, my friends, that this is, once again a tribute paid to poetry. Poetry by whose virtue the prodigious inventory of ships enumerated by old Homer in his Iliad are visited by a wind that pushes them to sail with unearthly, dazzling speed. Poetry that sustains, in the slender scaffolding of Dante's tercets, the entire dense, colossal structure of the Middle Ages. Poetry that with such miraculous totality reaches our America in "The Heights of Macchu Picchu" by Pablo Neruda, the great, the greatest, and where our best dead-end dreams distill their millenarian sorrow. Poetry, in short, the secret energy of daily life that cooks garbanzos in the kitchen and spreads love like contagion and repeats images in mirrors. In every line I write I always try, with greater or lesser success, to invoke the elusive spirits of poetry and leave in each word a testimony to my devotion because of its powers of divination and its permanent victory over the muffled powers of death."
3.5 stars - a slim collection of speeches by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, mostly given during receipt of some literary prize, with lines that occasionally burst into poetry.
3.5 stars - a slim collection of speeches by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, mostly given during receipt of some literary prize, with lines that occasionally burst into poetry.
aixahv14's review against another edition
4.0
Me ha gustado mucho, es muy interesante entender la vida y las preocupaciones de Gracia Marquez a través de los discursos que fue dando a lo largo de toda su vida. Únicamente no le doy las 5 estrellas porque se me ha hecho corto. Los discursos que más Mr han gustado son:
La soledad de América Latina
Brindis por la poesía
En honor de Belisario Betancur con motivo de sus setenta años
Mi amigo Mutis
Periodismo: el mejor oficio del mundo
Un alma abierta para ser llenada con mensajes en castellano
La soledad de América Latina
Brindis por la poesía
En honor de Belisario Betancur con motivo de sus setenta años
Mi amigo Mutis
Periodismo: el mejor oficio del mundo
Un alma abierta para ser llenada con mensajes en castellano
paloma_sanchezh's review against another edition
5.0
Es difícil ser objetivo sobre nuestro escritor favorito; sin embargo, con o sin equivocación, después de leer este volumen que recopila los discursos de Gabriel García Márquez, no puedo más que afirmar: Gabo se encuentra entre los mejores escritores del siglo XX.
El formato cambia, pero en estos discursos aún es posible encontrar la esencia que el colombiano imprimió a cada una de sus novelas, cuentos. Al leer estos textos, uno no puede más que reflexionar, reír o sentirse invadido por una profunda nostalgia ante muchas de las afirmaciones que son ciertas. En ellos, encontramos al hombre sensible, honesto, temeroso de las multitudes pero firme ante los temas que le apasionaban.
El libro contiene citas que son joyas, desde las que se encuentran en su más emblemático discurso, cuando recibió el Nobel de Literatura, hasta aquellas encontradas en el texto en qué Gabo habla de cómo comenzó a escribir hasta la profesión de fe hecha sobre la literatura.
Me resultó conmovedor ver el amor de García Márquez tanto por México como por Colombia, o más bien, por toda América Latina. El discurso sobre su tierra, me resultó particularmente relevante y emotivo, considerando la situación actual de México. En la conclusión de este texto, el autor hace un llamado para amar dicha tierra (Colombia) de tal manera que se convierta en la tierra que nos merezca y merezcamos. Sólo así podrá haber un cambio después de la crisis política y social.
Gracias, Gabo.
El formato cambia, pero en estos discursos aún es posible encontrar la esencia que el colombiano imprimió a cada una de sus novelas, cuentos. Al leer estos textos, uno no puede más que reflexionar, reír o sentirse invadido por una profunda nostalgia ante muchas de las afirmaciones que son ciertas. En ellos, encontramos al hombre sensible, honesto, temeroso de las multitudes pero firme ante los temas que le apasionaban.
El libro contiene citas que son joyas, desde las que se encuentran en su más emblemático discurso, cuando recibió el Nobel de Literatura, hasta aquellas encontradas en el texto en qué Gabo habla de cómo comenzó a escribir hasta la profesión de fe hecha sobre la literatura.
Me resultó conmovedor ver el amor de García Márquez tanto por México como por Colombia, o más bien, por toda América Latina. El discurso sobre su tierra, me resultó particularmente relevante y emotivo, considerando la situación actual de México. En la conclusión de este texto, el autor hace un llamado para amar dicha tierra (Colombia) de tal manera que se convierta en la tierra que nos merezca y merezcamos. Sólo así podrá haber un cambio después de la crisis política y social.
Gracias, Gabo.
grimamethyst's review against another edition
5.0
Gabriel Garcia Marquez's novel 100 Years of Solitude was a life-changing book. It shook me to my core and forever changed my view on fiction and writing altogether. I was beyond delighted to get access to the English language edition of his collected speeches, I'm Not Here to Give a Speech, published by @vintageanchorbooks and provided to me for review from the good folks at @netgalley .
These speeches, gathered by the author, span from his graduation from school to the 25th anniversary of 100 Years of Solitude at an event that was attended by Spain's monarchy.
They were as delightsome as I had hoped. Eloquent, warm, effortlessly poetic, heartfelt and sincere. I learned about his friends, his family, his home and his love for Latin America. I think my favorite of the speeches was The Cataclysm of Damocles which was delivered in 1986 but could have been delivered today and been as necessary.
This is a book I will cherish and I couldn't recommend it more. Garcia Marquez was an absolute gift.
These speeches, gathered by the author, span from his graduation from school to the 25th anniversary of 100 Years of Solitude at an event that was attended by Spain's monarchy.
They were as delightsome as I had hoped. Eloquent, warm, effortlessly poetic, heartfelt and sincere. I learned about his friends, his family, his home and his love for Latin America. I think my favorite of the speeches was The Cataclysm of Damocles which was delivered in 1986 but could have been delivered today and been as necessary.
This is a book I will cherish and I couldn't recommend it more. Garcia Marquez was an absolute gift.
dickh's review against another edition
5.0
This is a collection of speeches written by Garcia Marquez and they reveal much of his style as an author. Although several are memorable and worth reading, the one titled "The Cataclysm of Damocles" is worth reading and remembering and would further any discussion on the true benefits of peace.
neverwithoutabook's review against another edition
3.0
I'm Not Here to Give a Speech is a short collection of Gabriel García Márquez’s speeches. Márquez is the Nobel Prize-winning author of masterpieces, One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) and Love in the Time of Cholera (1985).
In his speeches Márquez discourses on the “tragedy” of Latin America, whose wars, military coups and thwarted political idealism make it the “immense homeland of deluded men”. Márquez spoke from experience. His father, Gabriel Eligio García, had worked in Colombia in the 1920s for the United Fruit Company, which succeeded in reducing Honduras to such a state of corruption that it earned the original title of “banana republic”.
Much of what Márquez says, in speeches delivered between 1944 and 2007 are truly beautiful and haunting. Thank you, Netgalley & Knopf Doubleday Publishing, for this copy in exchange for an honest review. 3.5 out of 5
In his speeches Márquez discourses on the “tragedy” of Latin America, whose wars, military coups and thwarted political idealism make it the “immense homeland of deluded men”. Márquez spoke from experience. His father, Gabriel Eligio García, had worked in Colombia in the 1920s for the United Fruit Company, which succeeded in reducing Honduras to such a state of corruption that it earned the original title of “banana republic”.
Much of what Márquez says, in speeches delivered between 1944 and 2007 are truly beautiful and haunting. Thank you, Netgalley & Knopf Doubleday Publishing, for this copy in exchange for an honest review. 3.5 out of 5
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