Chronicle of a Death
Foretold is a novella by Gabriel García Márquez. It was published in
1981 and tells the story of the murder of Santiago Nasar y a very journalistic
way. The star of this book is the end of the story and the name is because
every character know that Santiago Nasar will be murder, but Santiago doesn’t
know until he gets shot.
The reason because Santiago is
murder by the two Vicario brothers is that their sister Ángela Vicario said to
his husband that she wasn’t virgin cause Santiago Nasar’s foult. That’s why Vicario brothers announce to the
town thar the will kill Nasar.
I love this book because the is
very exitin to read it, thios is one of those bokke tath you can’t stop reading
over and over again. Also every time I read it a don’t want to get to the end. A
vey special thing of this book is that is wrote like a chronicle so is very
easy to read in spanish.
"The brothers were brought up to be men. The girls were brought up
to be married. They knew how to do screen embroidery, sew by machine, weave
bone lace, wash and iron, make artificial flowers and fancy candy, and write
engagement announcements… my mother thought there were no better-reared
daughters. 'They're perfect,' she was frequently heard to say. 'Any man will be
happy with them because they've been raised to suffer.'"
This quote shows the severity of
the lives women lead in the reserved Colombian culture of the town. The
narrator describes the upbringing of Angela Vicario and her siblings. Women are
not allowed to get jobs or follow their own dreams, their lives are bounded on
all sides by tradition and the expectation to get married and have families. A
woman's worthiness as a wife was measured by her beauty in conjunction with her
ability to gracefully run all aspects of a household. the idea that a woman suffers
in marriage is irrelevant and a
woman does’t have expectation of happiness unless she is
fortunate enough to love whichever man decides to court her. In this Spanish
culture, marriage is not based on love.
"A tour de force . . . In prose that is spare yet heavy with meaning,
Garcia Marquez gives us not merely a chronicle but a portrait of the town and
its collective psyche . . . not merely a family but an entire culture.” –The Washington Post Book World
This is a revew from Amazon that attach
importance to the social part of this story. This could be a criticism
to the way to resolve the problems in the society and the traditionalism of the
human minds.
Anyway… I
really recomend this book <3
