Chekhov's Mistress
Macondo to Remain a Fictitious Place
Residents of the hometown of Nobel Prize-winning novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez failed to pass a referendum Sunday to change the town’s name to Macondo, the fictitious tropical hamlet in his masterpiece “One Hundred Years of Solitude.”
Although 93 percent of residents in Aracataca voted for the change, high absenteeism invalidated the results.
Maybe this is a good thing. If my remembrance is correct, everyone pretty much dies or falls into decrepitude there.
from the Ap wire at The Washington Times
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- Posted by: Bud Parr
- Date: June 26, 2006
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