Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
October 23, 2005
Published:
Chicago, IL : Chicago Tribune
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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Notes:
"Even the language, though it cannot avoid being rich under [Gabriel García Márquez]'s fingers, is direct. Though Spanish usually becomes shorter when rendered in English, the excellent [Edith Grossman] translation and the original Spanish version of 'Memories' are of roughly the same word count. García Márquez cunningly alludes to this economy when he quotes in the text from a Mexican poem that commends to writers given to verbosity 'torcerle el cuello al cisne,' which means 'to twist the neck of the swan.'"