tell me about your favorite postmodernist author!
I suppose if I had to pick one - and only one - I might say Gabriel García Márquez. I love how his style is easy to read, in my opinion, but also able to extract such a haunting emotional response. I was particularly struck by his short story collection “Strange Pilgrims” (my favourite being I Only Came to Use the Phone which horrified me - in the right kind of way - and continued to surface in my thoughts for months thereafter) but I have also enjoyed One Hundred Years of Solitude and I’m waiting for a time to read Love in the Time of Cholera. I enjoyed looking into his background as a journalist, and how he moved from there into writing books. His incorporation of history and socio-political issues into his works, too, is masterful (hence my love for I Only Came to Use the Phone). Every person I’ve talked about Márquez with has felt deeply moved by his work, a sure indication of the calibre of his writing, and I hope that those who haven’t read his work before feel a desire to now.
