Thursday, November 6, 2008

Macondo - Game over

It is rather sad that the book is over now because it was such an interesting read. It kind of reminded me of the moving "The Neverending Story" because of the metafiction aspects of both the book and the movie. In the movie the events happening in the fantasy world almost mimic what is going on in the real world. But the characters in the book are aware of the "outside" world and the person who is reading the book. In 100 Years of Solitude you have the metafictional aspects in the end of the book where it makes you pause, look back over the whole book, and ask yourself: Was any of this real or was it all just a dream or a work of fiction?
I like metafictional elements in books so long as it is not overdone; it adds a very interesting and different aspect to the normal kind of book.

1 comment:

Duluoz said...

Good work, Anthony. It is, indeed, a great book.