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Literary Introduction | Marquez′s Novel The old Man With Two Big Wings 文学推介 | 马尔克斯的小说《巨翅老人》

August 31, 2023 Hua Siyao 

The old Man With Two Big Wings, a short story written by  Gabriel Garcia Marquez, was secondary to his well-known work of magical realism, One Hundred Years of Solitude. Similarly. The short story presents an absurd world calmly and objectively, as well as a kind of cyclical time.

马尔克斯的短篇小说《巨翅老人》是其魔幻现实主义作品《百年孤独》的次生作品。小说冷静、客观地呈现了一个荒诞的世界,一种循环往复的时间。


The novel shows a combination of reality and fantasy, with a plethora of paranormal phenomenon. For instance, a fallen angel with a pair of wings, a large tarantula with a girl's head and a spider's body, etc.

小说展现了现实与幻想的结合,小说中描写了很多超自然现象,例如,有一对翅膀的落魄天使,长着女孩的脑袋、蜘蛛身体的大狼蛛等


In addition, the author reveals reveals the coldness of human relationships and the money-oriented concepts, when the fallen angel was surrounded, abused, and regarded as a tool for soliciting money.

此外,作者还揭示了人际关系的冷漠和金钱本位的观念。小说中,天使被围观、被辱骂,被视为敛财的工具。


After reading the novel, I felt that the time of the village seems to be recurring and unchanging. In the end of the short story, the angel flies back up to the sky, and life goes on as usual.

读完小说,我觉得这座村庄的时间似乎是循环往复、一成不变的。在短篇小说的结尾,天使飞回了天空,生活一如既往。




Date: August 31, 2023


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