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Tag Archives: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
be an ingenuous reader
“I must be a very ingenuous reader, because I’ve never thought that novelists mean to say more than what they say. When Franz Kafka says that Gregory Samsa woke up one morning transformed into a gigantic insect, it doesn’t strike … Continue reading
Posted in Books, South America, Writing
Tagged Columbia, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Magic realism
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Memorable Opening Lines
In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since. — F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1925) I lost an arm on my last trip home. — Octavia Butler, Kindred (1979) Once … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Writing
Tagged F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, J.D. Salinger, Mark Twain, Sylvia Plath
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The Path to Paradise
Italian architect and illustrator Federico Babina has created this fabulous series of posters that imagine the houses of celebrated authors. Archiwriter covers many of the world’s greatest male writers. each poster incorporates a famous line and allusion to an appropriate … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Art, Books, Writing
Tagged Dante, Ernest Hemingway, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Hermann Hesse, Italo Calvino, Paul Auster
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