Cien años de soledad en compañía

I grew up in California knowing about 100 years of solitude as the magical realism forerunner overshadowing some popular Latin American books, movies, or telenovelas. I read it twice: once in English once in Spanish. many years ago after reading other writers like Cortazar, Carlos Fuentes, Miguel Angel Asturias, Juan Rulfo … I found that 100 years of solitude was not exactly a throwback to anything nor a literal precursor of other renown texts of Latin American popular culture -// 100 years of solitude stands apart, is unique, and rivals any Faulkner novel and almost any Joycean universe. Still, I had yet to find someone also bilingual to discuss Gabo with. And someone who would explain the context and the backstory and knew the symbolism and meaning of the dates and the archetypes in the book. Thank you because this is truly a well produced, and exquisitely planned work of love, dedication and conviction. I am very grateful for the consistent academic depth and insight on display in each episode by the guests and the hostess. I truly wish we would’ve had something of this quality in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s or while I was growing up in California and my mom was watching channel 34 or 52. In closing, your podcast’s given me a better understanding of where we came from.