Event #28

“Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice”. Everybody has heard at least once the opening sentence of One Hundred Years of Solitude, one of the most widely read novels of all time. García Márquez evades the rules of suspense and spoiler – popular concepts in the literature debate of our times – and anticipates crucial details to the reader. The only word that interests the novelist is in fact “wonder”. And the element which triggers wonder has nothing to do with surprise. Nor with the magic that has often been attributed to this book, although the author denies it. Yet there is another form of magic transpiring between the pages of this unforgettable novel: that of a writer in a state of grace able to capture the reader and take him to another dimension.