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I'm Not Here to Give a Speech by Gabriel García Márquez
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