Saturday, February 13, 2010
The general who never won a victory
General González commanded the largest forces in the Revolution and he came out of it with the unique honor of having lost every battle in which he was engaged. Sounds French to me. Though González was from Lampazos de Naranjo, not far from Nuevo Laredo...
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El coronel Aureliano Buendía es seguramente una alusión al general Rafael Uribe Uribe, tanto por el físico del coronel, que corresponde completamente al del general (contextura delgada y ósea, bigote afilado, mirada penetrante), como por ser ambos liberales y por el hecho de que todas las guerras civiles que iniciaron las perdieron (15 el general y 32 el coronel).
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I read "One hundred years of solitude", but it was in English (or perhaps French?) translation. I'm missing some words in here -= what does Uribe have to do with Gonzalez?
...por el hecho de que todas las guerras civiles que iniciaron las perdieron.
Got it?
I am leaving it in Spanish because I think it might be fun for you to figure it out. I would've put a comma in the sentence, after iniciaron.
Yeh, yeh, yeh, Lamps is close to Laredo. But Rio Grande City is closer...
I still don't get the upshot: Are you pulling for Speedy González here, or are you trying to say Gabriel García Márquez had it all explained, or what? I'm still trying to figure out all those machinations with Zapata, Carranza, et al. Sounds like a pretty nasty civil war they had down there during la Revolución. You ever read in depth about the subject?
No, I am almost entirely ignorant about it. All I know is that my great-grandfather and grandfather moved from Piedras Negras to Roma because the Villa guys would come and empty the till in their store periodically.
...por el hecho de que todas las guerras civiles que iniciaron las perdieron.
= "...for the fact that all of the civil wars that they started they lost."
Mejor?
¡Muy bien!
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