Álvaro Santana-Acuña, "Ascent to Glory: How One Hundred Years of Solitude Was Written and Became a Global Classic" (Columbia UP, 2020)
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My Condo, My Conda, Myconda Reins Aloud
In the fall of two southin. it was really raini it was my first time leaving in cambridge, and it was raining one day after the other. And at a certain moment in the story, it reins aloud for a very long time, writes,. this has become actually a very famous episode in the novel. So i wonder why i did that. Why did i make that connection between the rein in cambridge and the rein in the novel? To my surprise, that was the beginning of research on how works of art and cultural objects at large become classics.
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