Collected Stories by Gabriel Garcia
Marquez
Highly Recommend This Short Story Collection: Good Reading.
Collected here are twenty-six of Gabriel Garcia Marquezs most brilliant
and enchanting short stories, presented in the chronological order of their
publication in Spanish from three volumes: Eyes of a Blue Dog,Big Mamas
Funeral, and The Incredibleand Sad Tale of lnnocent Eréndira and Her
Heartless Grandmother. Combining mysticism, history, and humor, the
stories in this collection span more than two decades, illuminating the
development of Marquezs prose and exhibiting the themes of family,
poverty, and death that resound throughout his fiction.
Personal Review: Collected Stories by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Marquez takes you into a magical tour throughout this wonderful short
story book that you can read repeatedly and never tire from it. He is a

master at his art and always engulfs you with a subject simply by using his
unique surreal style of putting things together in writing.
I have read this book several times in both languages Spanish and
English, and grasped more of his "magical realism" in Spanish, simply
because it was originally written in that language and there is always
something lost during translation, although the English version was pretty
decent. Marquez's words are vivid and visual, as you read the stories you
imagine them on a movie screen.
The Man With Enormous Wings is a great one, a shabby old man with
wings falls from the sky during a heavy rainfall in some tiny South
American village, and since the people that live there are superstitious they
assume he's an angel from the far away heavens. So they decide to put
him in a chicken coop and spread the word that there is an angel in town
so people from all over the place come around with bizarre ailments such
as a man that could not sleep because the noise from the stars kept him
awake at night. Another woman could not stop counting and she had run
out of numbers to count. Well, it goes on and on and nothing happens. The
freak with wings becomes sick and somehow manages to fly away flapping
it's wings like a vulture while Elisenda is cutting onions.
Then there is The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World, about some
children, playing by the sea and seeing some bulky mass approaching
them. At first, they think it is an enemy ship, but discover it is a dead body.
The kids drag him into the town and all the women in the village start
fussing all over him, especially because he was a big man. They clean him
up but couldn't find clothes big enough for him to wear since he was a
large man, and they decide to name him Esteban which means Stephen in
English, I guess because he looked like a gringo. The men in the village
start to get a little jealous about the women fuss too much over this dead
Esteban. The women make up stories about what his life would have been
like, what he might have done for a living, and felt sorrow over this orphan
corpse. Eventually after the women grieve tremendously for Esteban, they
gather flowers, hold a funeral, and he's thrown back into the sea (this was
supposed to be a children's story).
Well, there are twenty four more wonderful stories in this book that you
must read including Erendira and her Heartless Grandmother, and Death
Constant Beyond Love.
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