IT WAS INEVITABLE: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.
I remembered that she had also looked at me in that way in the past, from that remote dream where I made the chair spin on its back legs and remained facing a strange woman with ashen eyes. It was in...
Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest.
Hibát hibára halmozott, mert a szemével próbálta látni, amit a megérzés tisztábban láttatott vele.
He was shaken by the overwhelming revelation that the headlong race between his misfortunes ad his dreams was at that moment reaching the finish line. The rest was darkness, 'Damn it,' he sighed. 'How...
He spent six hours examining things, trying to find a difference from their appearance on the previous day in the hope of discovering in them some change that would reveal the passage of time.
He [Dr. Juvenal Urbino] arose at the crack of dawn, when he began to take his secret medicines: potassium bromide to raise his spirits, salicylates for the ache in his bones when it rained, ergosterol...
Había huido de ella tratando de aniquilar su recuerdo no sólo con la distancia, sino con un encarnizamiento aturdido que sus compañeros de armas calificaban de temeridad, pero mientras más revolcaba s...
God was a full-fledged member of the Conservative Party.
Go away, she said voicelessly.Aureliano, smiled, picked her up by the waist with both hands like a pot of begonias, and dropped her on her back on the bed. With a brutal tug he pulled off her bathrobe...
Gabito isn't deceiving anyone, she said with an innocent smile, but sometimes it happens that even God needs to make weeks that are two years long.
From that time on the parish priest began to show signs of senility that would lead him to say years later that the devil had probably won his rebellion against God, and that he was the one who sat on...
For a week, almost without speaking, they went ahead like sleepwalkers through a universe of grief, lighted only by the tenuous reflection of luminous insects, and their lungs were overwhelmed by a su...
En la escuela desportillada donde experimentó por primera vez la seguridad del poder, a pocos metros del cuarto donde conoció la incertidumbre del amor, Arcadio encontró ridículo el formalismo de la m...
Ella tuvo que hacer un esfuerzo sobrenatural para no morirse cuando una potencia ciclónica asombrosamente regulada la levantó por la cintura y la despojó de su intimidad con tres zarpazos, y la descua...
El motivo principal de esa guerra era el terror de los narcotraficantes ante la posibilidad de ser extraditados a los Estados Unidos,
El coronel destapó el tarro del café y comprobó que no había más de una cucharadita. Retiró la olla del fogón, vertió la mitad del agua en el piso de tierra, y con un cuchillo raspó el interior del ta...
Don't stay with Urdanetea, he told him. And don't go with your family to the United States. It's omnipotent and terrible, and its tale of liberty will end in a plague of miseries for us all.
Descubrí que mi obsesión de que cada cosa estuviera en su puesto, cada asunto en su tiempo, cada palabra en su estilo, no era el premio merecido de una mente en orden, sino al contrario, todo un siste...
De az aggság áthatolhatatlan magányában olyan éleslátással tudta mérlegelni a család életének legjelentéktelenebb eseményeit is, hogy csak most tárult fel előtte tisztán sok igazság, amit hajdan a nag...