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The book has been well researched and the political facts are accurate. Lo que sabe y lo que no sabe.
Historia Secreta De Costaguana by Juan Gabriel Vasquez
Colombian novelist Juan Gabriel Vasquez weaves this Review title: Shawn rated it it was ok May 31, My last example, but not the only one left in the novel, is Jose himself. I struggled to begin with and then really got in to it.
Laura rated it it was ok Feb 02, A bold historical novel from “one of the most original new voices of Latin American literature” Mario Vargas Llosa, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Colombian novelist Juan Gabriel Vasquez weaves this two stories together in this fascinating “secret history”–but what he tells is the life story of Jose Altamirano. Anton rated it it was ok Dec 26, The famous costaguaan Joseph Conrad struggles to provide for his young family in early 20th century London, and is plagued with self-doubt about his ability to become a successful writer.
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He becomes another victim of the challenges of history. However, Miguel died a broken man after the company crashed and people hated the refraction created by his pen.
Witty and funny, the prose is beautiful. The attention is focused on the French attempt to build a canal to link the Pacific and Atlantic through the then Colombian province of Panama, and the subsequent US support for the secession of Panama to form an independent republic in Perhaps the name of Costaguana, which sounds very much like Cartagena. There is also a connection with Joseph Conrad, tenuous at first but explained fully towards the I have to say that this book grew on me.
There are also flashes of brilliance in the writing that will probably land this one on one or more long-and-shortlists for a literary award. I trudged through a little more than pages and could not continue. Now Conrad is dead, but the slate is by no means clear- Nostromo will live on and Altamirano must write himself back into existence. Dec 14, Pickle Farmer rated it really liked it Shelves: Quotes from The Secret Histor A history, a love story Beginning in the last century, driven by French ideas and American dollars and the world’s desires, the Panamanian isthmus was crossed first by railroad and then by the monstrous undertaking of an ocean to ocean canal.
The first chapter promises a brilliant novel that intersperses the personal history of the fictional narrator, with the “true” history of end of nineteenth century Colombia and Panama and the “secret” history of Joseph Conrad and how he came to write Nostromo.
Conservatives, often with a quarter-million dead, with the utmost brutality and gruesome killings of women and children on each side: In addition, Altamirano watches battling political factions in his country spin ideas and events to their version of the truth. Conrad uses this knowledge almost word for word with no reference to where he got the information and changes the place name to Costaguana. An excerpt from my review: The following year the first segment of Conrad’s novel Nostromo is published in a weekly literary magazine, which is set in the fictionalized country of Costaguana.
There is also a connection with Joseph Conrad, tenuous at first but explained fully towards the end. Jose, as an unintentional witness to the Great Events of the revolution plays an integral part in the revolution that splits Panama from Colombia.
It also simply may not have translated over very well. One example is Miguel. I think that some readers will LOVE it, and some, like me, will merely like it, feeling cowtaguana it should have been a better reading experience for them. I would recommend this book because it is written differently than any other book I have ever read, but the way it is told catches and holds the reader’s attention.
Here is an interesting quote on how memory works and how it can be slippery: For THIS reader, however, the writing style was difficult to muddle through. This was very good. However the story feels sidetracked when it covers Conrad’s travel in the Congo. He then realizes that Joseph Conrad begins to publish Nostromo recounting the story he once related to him in a fateful meeting, and that he is marginalized and virtually erased from that history. Historia secreta de Co In the early twentieth century, a struggling Joseph Conrad wrote his great novel Nostromo, about a South American republic he named Costaguana.
In this novel, you have to pay attention, or you’ll find yourself scratching your head and going back a page or two to catch up.
Bruno K rated it it was ok Dec 31, Which leads me to the second theme of the book: We follow as their son later Gustave as well as hundreds of other white people die of yellow fever.
More often than not, I found myself backtracking, because whatever I’d just read didn’t ‘gel’ in my mind to something I could understand and on a couple of these occasions, even reading it over didn’t help. Secrwta is persuaded to tell his personal life story and the story of Colombia while Conrad takes notes and that story becomes the basis of Nostromo. He ends up telling his story to Conrad, who gives a false costaguaha, making him the enemy of Jose for the rest of his life.