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"Chronicle of a Death Foretold" is a short novel by Gabriel García Marquez. To classify it as a policial novel would be to sub-estimate its originality.
Imagine a story when you know, from page one, that a crime was committed. You know the victim and you know the killers. With the certainty that gives to talk about successes that happened twenty years ago, there's no possible doubt about the facts. Vicario brothers killed Santiago Nasar, they confessed and even proclaimed their intentions beforehand.
So, the novel spends its pages describing the circumstances that conduce to the death foretold. You'll learn, chapter by chapter, how almost everybody in the little town knew about the intention of Vicario brothers. Almost everybody could do something to stop them. In fact, the brothers seemed not to be very committed to carry the murder.
Nonetheless, nobody did anything. Someone didn't believe that the brothers would in fact carry their vendetta. The butcher that sharpened the knives the Vicario used notified the Sheriff. But the sheriff though it was just drunk talking.
Even Santiago's mother played a tragic role in the events, when she locked her house door, to avoid Vicario brothers could trespass. But in doing so, she avoid her son could scape the persecution that lead to his dead.
The amazing thing about this story is that even after you know how thing will end (the author remembers you Santiago's fate each few pages), you'll find yourself desperately hoping that something different happens, that someone could stop that madness.
It's its tragic and inevitable nature what makes "Chronicle of a Death Foretold" so fascinating. Like life itself.
"Chronicle of a Death Foretold" is a short novel by Gabriel García Marquez. To classify it as a policial novel would be to sub-estimate its originality.
Imagine a story when you know, from page one, that a crime was committed. You know the victim and you know the killers. With the certainty that gives to talk about successes that happened twenty years ago, there's no possible doubt about the facts. Vicario brothers killed Santiago Nasar, they confessed and even proclaimed their intentions beforehand.
So, the novel spends its pages describing the circumstances that conduce to the death foretold. You'll learn, chapter by chapter, how almost everybody in the little town knew about the intention of Vicario brothers. Almost everybody could do something to stop them. In fact, the brothers seemed not to be very committed to carry the murder.
Nonetheless, nobody did anything. Someone didn't believe that the brothers would in fact carry their vendetta. The butcher that sharpened the knives the Vicario used notified the Sheriff. But the sheriff though it was just drunk talking.
Even Santiago's mother played a tragic role in the events, when she locked her house door, to avoid Vicario brothers could trespass. But in doing so, she avoid her son could scape the persecution that lead to his dead.
The amazing thing about this story is that even after you know how thing will end (the author remembers you Santiago's fate each few pages), you'll find yourself desperately hoping that something different happens, that someone could stop that madness.
It's its tragic and inevitable nature what makes "Chronicle of a Death Foretold" so fascinating. Like life itself.
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To classify it as a political novel would be to under-estimate its originality.
With that certainty that gives to talk about successes that happened twenty years ago, there's no possible doubt about the facts.
I'm not completely sure what you're trying to say here.
The Vicario brothers killed Santiago Nasar, they confessed and they even proclaimed their intentions beforehand.
So, the novel spends its pages describing the circumstances that led to the foretold death foretold.
You'll learn, chapter by chapter, how almost everybody in the little town knew about the intentions of the Vicario brothers.
Almost everybody could have done something to stop them.
In fact, the brothers seemed not to be very committed to carrying out the murder.
Some didn't believe that the brothers would in fact carry out their vendetta.
The butcher who sharpened the knives the Vicario used notified the sheriff.
But the sheriff though it was just the drink talking.
When someone says something strange when they're drunk, we say that "it's just the drink talking"
Even Santiago's mother played a tragic role in the events, when she locked her house door to prevent the Vicario brothers from trespassing.
But in doing so, she prevented her son from escaping the persecution that lead to his death.
The amazing thing about this story is that even after you know how things will end (the author reminds you of Santiago's fate every few pages), you'll find yourself desperately hoping that something different happens, that someone could stop that madness.
It's its tragic and inevitable nature that makes "Chronicle of a Death Foretold" so fascinating.
I was trying to say "crime novels", like the ones Agatha Christie wrote.
In the second sentence I was trying to emphasize that we are talking about past events. There's no chance the reader is being fooled into believe things other than the truth.
By the way, I just learned how to send "thank you points", so my previous lack of them could be considered as a technical difficulty.