After reading the first article by González Echevarría, I found that the article helped me put a lot of different things in perspective - not only about the novel, but about our class this semester as a whole. Many of the themes (Biblical references, myth/ imagination over science, incest, etc) which we discussed in class in relation to 100 Years were mentioned, and after reading this article, I was more acutely aware of these details while reading the last two chapters of the novel.
What Echevarría's article, though, made me more aware of was the stylistic transition as I remembered the other works we read earlier in the year. Clearly 100 Years is completely different from The Jamaica Letter, but I came to see The Jamaica Letter, among the other writings, as truly a more scientific document, as Echevarría suggests the earlier Latin American literature is, not solely a letter from the Romantic period. Reading Echevarría's thoughts about how "the native has timeless stories to explain his changeless society" makes the more circular and definitely nonlinear pattern of the narrator's storytelling to be more understandable, as I now feel I have learned about a reason behind it.
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