week two! : setting

Marquez seems adament about creating a fairy tale sort of feeling with his book. He describes Macondo "At that time Macondo was a village of twenty adobe houses, built on the bank of a river of clear water that ran along a bed of polished stones, which were white and enormous, like prehistoric eggs. The world was so recent that many things lacked names, and in order to indicate them it was necessary to point." and everything seems mystical and magical. The world, in the novel, seems so strange, but that's most likely because we're "seeing" everything from a completely new view. The residents of Macondo seem so sheltered, but in reality they made themselves that way, securing the city away from anything except a few gypsy camps. Though it is curious that the gypsies can enter and find the city while no other groups of people try it. Perhaps Marquez was trying to symbolize something with that but one can not be sure, maybe the gypsies were the only ones who cared enough to make it to Macondo. The setting fits in very well with the story, slightly patchwork and eclectic. I am quite impressed with Marquez's style of writing and am pleasantly surprised by how much I like this book.