Erika L. Sánchez, from Lessons on Expulsion: Poems; “Amá”
[Text ID: “In One Hundred Years of Solitude, / Márquez wrote that we are birthed / by our mothers only once, but life obligates / us to give birth / to ourselves over and over.”]
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It was the year they fell into devastating love. Neither one could do anything except think about the other, dream about the other, and wait for letters with the same impatience they felt when they answered them.
Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera (translated by Edith Grossman)
Do you ever get sad knowing that you'll never know all the languages and so since translators make choices (they have to) and things sometimes don't fully translate you can never experience every book exactly as it was originally intended to be read?
Biblioteca Gabriel García Márquez. This is the public library of the Sant Martí quarter of Barcelona, Catalonia.
This library has been selected as one of the candidates for best public library awards given by the World Library and Information Congress and the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions.
The awards take into account a wide variety of issues, ranging from the interaction with the social and cultural networks of the neighborhood, sustainability, flexibility, comfort, architecture, digitalization, learning, social connection...
The Gabriel García Márquez library has been designed to be comfortable (they even have hammocks!), big windows that allow the use of natural light, and a sustainable and self-sufficient building. The library is specialized in Latin American literature, it also has a radio studio where people can record radio programmes and podcasts, it has a conference room, a kitchen, a table top games area and an exterior terrace. It also organises many activities including workshops on oral and documentary memory of the Sant Martí community.
Video and info (adapted) by itsxaviripoll on Instagram.
Illustrations for the 50th anniversary edition of Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez’ Cien años de soledad (One Hundred Years of Solitude). Art by Chilean illustrator Luisa Rivera.