A conversation for SPAN 312 about Gabriel García Márquez's most famous book, One Hundred Years of Solitude. With Gerald Martin and Jon Beasley-Murray.

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It is perhaps because ultimately Macondo is so full of the ghosts of the motley cast of characters that have wandered through the book’s pages, that García Márquez can only put an end to it all by shouting “enough!” and bringing on a cataclysmic hurricane that tears the whole place down.

By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia

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The book militantly refuses regimentation, but is aware that “proliferation” can also be a “plague,” even as it flirts with excess at every turn.

By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia

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A conversation for SPAN 312 about Juan Rulfo's novel, Pedro Páramo. With Gareth Williams and Jon Beasley-Murray.

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Here, the signs and impact of the sovereign, the legacy of a bitter past, are everywhere to be seen. But he is haunted by murmurs, voices, that never entirely go away.

By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia

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A conversation for SPAN 312 about Alejo Carpentier's novel of the Haitian Revolution, The Kingdom of This World. With Luis Duno-Gottberg and Jon Beasley-Murray.

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01:03 Music and History

03:10 Latin American Difference

08:06 Unpacking Mestizaje

11:52 Ti Noël's Saga

17:17 An End to Flight

21:37 The Value of Struggle

26:04 Carpentier's Legacy

28:37 Credits

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It is the fact that in Haiti—and the Americas more generally—two (or more) perspectives rub up against each other and clash, shattering the notion that they can harmoniously be contained within the same organic totality, that provokes the surprised awe and wonder that Carpentier reports experiencing, and attempts to recreate in this novel.

By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia

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A conversation for SPAN 312 about Jorge Luis Borges's collection of translated stories and other short texts, Labyrinths. With Daniel Balderston and Jon Beasley-Murray.

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Borges exposes secret complicities, as when apparent oppositions hide more fundamental similarities. But he is also concerned with how novelty and change emerge from repetition, how real difference arises from the most minor of variations.

By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia

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A conversation for SPAN 312 about the collection Madwomen: The Locas mujeres Poems of Gabriela Mistral. With Licia Fiol-Matta and Jon Beasley-Murray.

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