38/17
The funny thing is that I don’t remember the book that way at all
In the timeless city of Macondo, seven generations of the Buendía family deal with love, forgetting, and the inevitability of their past and fate. This is Netflix’s most expensive project in Latin America to date, with Colombian indigenous groups and communities constructing the props and sets for the series.
Let the beggar’s cloak cover you with its fantastic story
Sure, it was amazing, but then again, the author is very poetic in mining old curses and the like… or tragic love, human nature… It all comes from the Master of the genre. I was swept away by almost everything, not in the first episode, then I was intrigued, and I hope you let the alchemy/magic happen as I did.
Like some Game of Thrones fever
It’s all about history and memory, how incredible and intertwined they are and what we do with them. I feel like reading this novel again, right now!
Sad, but beautiful
The difference is that I can’t read the original, only the translation. This is not Dickens and a Christmas story for children, but a story for adults.
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And very welcome in our troubled political times. “One Hundred Years of Solitude” is one of the biggest TV and streaming releases this month.