Topic: Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude (on Netflix)

[Noel_Vera]

Thoughts on the Netflix adaptation of Nobel Prize winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude.

It was an experience and every time I've returned Marquez's story would cast its spell again and I'd be lost in the swampy jungles and stamped-dirt avenues and rumpled-sheet sweatsoaked bedrooms of Macondo, the fictional home town of the Buendias, and have to pull myself away to look around, the way gaudy corals and brilliant costumed marine life would seduce a snorkeler past his lung capacity, so he's forced to kick upwards for air. 

And now this series streaming on Netflix, and I wondered: will I have that same experience? Will it dazzle me the way Marquez's prose as translated by the also brilliant Gregory Rabassa dazzled me past the point of self-preservation? Will I have that experience of shaking my head to clear my mind of Marquez's intoxicating fumes, only to find the everyday world just that much less vivid, that much more dull?