"A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings"
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: Was The "Angel's" Intent For Him to be Profited From?
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, born in 1928 in the town of Aracataca in the Magdalena province of Columbia, is a writer who does not use real events to create his stories, rather images and fantasy-like magical realistic notions. He received the Nob ....
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.... his surreal presence.
Garcia Marquez's use of both the earthly and the divine are quite interesting, because he uses the angel to convey both a spiritual presence as well as an earthly desire to live well in the real world, which in turn ultimately enriches the main characters in the story, Pelayo and Elisenda. The author does not portray the divine as one might think. When a person thinks of an angel they think of a very elegant, beautiful figure usually clothed in white with a spiritual pre ....
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