THE DEEP ONES: "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" by Gabriel García Márquez

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THE DEEP ONES: "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" by Gabriel García Márquez

2AndreasJ
Redigerat: feb 22, 2:35 pm

I guess this is "magical realism" rather than "weird" already by its author's home continent, but it reminded me at points both of Jeffrey Ford and of Ballard's "The Drowned Giant" (though any influence is from Márquez, of course).

Annoyance or not, overall the angel proved a blessing for Pelayo and Elisenda.

3RandyStafford
feb 24, 11:07 am

It was acceptably short and didn't overstay its welcome. The old man seems an entity into whom people can invest their theories and hopes.

The bit with the spider woman was odd. For a moment, I took her crushing of the old man to be literal instead of just upstaging his appeal.

4WeeTurtle
feb 26, 9:38 pm

I haven't looked at these threads in a while but I caught the title of this one and my local theatre group is putting on a play of this story. Question is, if I go see it, do I read the story first or after?

5semdetenebre
Redigerat: feb 28, 1:48 pm

Have another meatball.



It might have been interesting to discover how Elisenda and Pelayo would have rid themselves of a dead angel (something along the lines of the previously mentioned "The Drowned Giant", perhaps?), but then we wouldn't have the story's moral, that sometimes those unruly supernatural (or not) annoyances in life can become "but an imaginary dot on the horizon of the sea."

>4 WeeTurtle:

It's a very short story. I'd read it first and then see where the theatrical adaptation takes it.