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| | | | Caryl Swift 
Poland
Local time: 19:14
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No possible option here for me - I've read both, enjoy, admire and rate both equally.
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I can't choose one over the other, it's too hard. I love them both. Besides, their styles are completely different.
| | | | Julio Torres
Mexico
Local time: 11:14
English to Spanish
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For Spanish native speakers, García Marquez has an advantage over Hesse: he writes in our language. Hesse depends on the translator. =(
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Andrea Quintana
Argentina
Local time: 14:14
Member (2006)
English to Spanish
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| Missing option: "Both" | Jul 7, 2006 |
I agree with Claudia and Caryl.
I've read both in Spanish, and they're great, each with different characteristics to admire and enjoy. My vote definitely goes to both.
| | | | Henry Hinds
United States
Local time: 11:14
English to Spanish
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In memoriam | Of course, Gabo | Jul 7, 2006 |
For Spanish native speakers, García Marquez has an advantage over Hesse: he writes in our language. Hesse depends on the translator.
That says it all. And of course, it is a provincial view, from which we are not exempt.
| | | | | More provincial view | Jul 7, 2006 |
Julio Arturo Torres Jaubert wrote:
For Spanish native speakers, García Marquez has an advantage over Hesse: he writes in our language. Hesse depends on the translator. =(
Neither works are in my native tongue, not even in English translations. I am thoroughly provincial and typical of non-exempt.
By the way, are we out of Poll subjects?
| | | | Henry Hinds
United States
Local time: 11:14
English to Spanish
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In memoriam
By the way, are we out of Poll subjects?
Unfortunately I´m sure we´re not, but it sure would be nice if we were.
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Dusica Cook
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Local time: 19:14
English to Bosnian
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| 47% haven't read them! | Jul 7, 2006 |
difficult choice, but...
i am shocked to see that 47% of 275 (at the moment) haven't read either of the two!
it is a disgrace to the profession!
| | | | Kirill Semenov
Ukraine
Local time: 20:14
Member (2004)
English to Russian
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| My thought exactly... | Jul 7, 2006 |
Dusica Cook wrote:
i am shocked to see that 47% of 275 (at the moment) haven't read either of the two!
it is a disgrace to the profession!
Sure, it is. But I hope the poll will urge some our colleagues to read both Marquez and Hesse.
| | | | LuciaC
United Kingdom
Local time: 18:14
English to Italian
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I love them both with a preference for Marquez.
But if so far many respondents are, say, Asians, I wouldn't be shocked if they hadn't read them. After all how much Chinese, Corean or Indonesian literature do we (Westeners) know?
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... for me. I read only Hesse.
Anni
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| Nor hesse neither García Marquez | Jul 7, 2006 |
I read both and in original language, but I don't like their novels; I prefere other authors, like Hugo, Dumas, Emily Bronte and Cervantes
| | | | Aurora Humarán (X)
Argentina
Local time: 14:14
English to Spanish
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| Not enough options | Jul 7, 2006 |
as other colleagues have already mentioned.
Once you like a writer, I don't think you can like him 'more' than another writer.
I like Papini, Carpentier, Tabucci, Paz, Cortázar, Hesse, Bioy Casares... but I don't have my Top 50 ranking where Gabo is Number 1 and Rosario Castellanos goes second... I like them all... for different moments of my life, and even of my day.
I was about to start City (Baricco), but I decided that now I NEED to read Maurice (Forst... See more as other colleagues have already mentioned.
Once you like a writer, I don't think you can like him 'more' than another writer.
I like Papini, Carpentier, Tabucci, Paz, Cortázar, Hesse, Bioy Casares... but I don't have my Top 50 ranking where Gabo is Number 1 and Rosario Castellanos goes second... I like them all... for different moments of my life, and even of my day.
I was about to start City (Baricco), but I decided that now I NEED to read Maurice (Forster). Different writers, both Number one for me.
No possible ranking when our friends (the Writers) are involved. They are all my Number One.... Ok, I should exclude Borges, I know! I know! (my shrink is working on this obsession, though! )
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Dusica Cook wrote:
i am shocked to see that 47% of 275 (at the moment) haven't read either of the two!
it is a disgrace to the profession!
I think you're jumping into conclusions.
Note that the poll options are very limited. I've chosen the option "I haven't read them" because I interpreted it as "I haven't read enough by both of them". I read only one thing by Hesse a long time ago, and I don't find that it gives me a good enough basis to compare him with Marquez, whom I've read a bit more - perhaps three books.
I don't see how this would be a disgrace to the profession. Perhaps if we were all literary critics, or professors or translators of Spanish and German literature.
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