Through One Hundred Years of Solitude and Cronica de una Muerte Annunciada, Garcia Marquez tells stories backwards and upside down: “What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.” His fellow Colombians are masters of basing reality on their own perceptions. For Garcia Marquez is the master of magical realism. Not until I checked where the Noble Prize winner, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, came from, that I grasped even a fleeting intuition for Colombia. Colombia felt contradictory, elusive, ambiguous. Viva Ona Bartkus, August 2021įor many days upon my return from my first trip to Colombia, I tried to compose my reflections.
