Perennial Classics Innocent Erendira and Other Stories, (Paperback)

from veracite

I wish there was a star rating for 'didn't quite understand it'. I was doing okay until "Dialogue with the Mirror". From there on either Marquez was writing under the influence of hallucinogens or I lost the ability to comprehend written English. Is there a key to Marquez? Something that can help...

from deebee1

A collection of short stories spanning more than four decades of his career, the earliest one written in 1947. GGM is a favorite of mine, but this collection was a disappointment, and several stories seemed to me amateurish though they were written already in his later years. All the stories empl...

from deebee1

A collection of short stories spanning more than four decades of his career, the earliest one written in 1947. GGM is a favorite of mine, but this collection was a disappointment, and several stories seemed to me amateurish though they were written already in his later years. All the stories empl...

from aviechu

I for one, prefer his later styles much, much better.

from nmhale

Another collection of short stories, and Marquez excels in the format. In this book, the first short story - the one about Erendira of the title - is about half the book, and the other eleven stories are much shorter. The majority of the stories are about death, actually, whether it's encroaching...