No one wrote to him about the character of the colonel

The Colonel, Nobody Wrote to Him, written in 1957 and published in 1961, in which Márquez says that the story is based on the image of a man waiting for a ferry on the pier, silent and worried.

The story takes place in October of a certain year, the protagonist Colonel is 75 years old, and his son was shot and killed nine months ago while distributing secret leaflets in the Dou Ran and Chicken Farm, leaving only a fighting.

The colonel and his wife, who suffered from asthma, lived in such a difficult situation that they could barely survive, and the wife even boiled stones in the pot on several occasions lest the neighbors think that they would not be able to open the pot.

Every Friday the Colonel would go to the dock to wait for the mail ship, if there was a letter from him. The colonel had been waiting for his pension, which was fifteen years.

I like the dialogue buried in the book, especially the one between the colonel and his wife, which is short, bitter, humorous, such as:

Wife: I want to plant roses.

Colonel: You can plant it if you want!

Wife: Pigs will eat it.

Colonel: Pigs are better eaten, and pigs that grow up with roses have a more fragrant meat.

The colonel asked his wife to return the newly bought shoes.

Wife: Those Turks are ignoring you.

Colonel: They have to take care of it.

Wife: What if they ignore it?

Colonel: Then leave it alone.

There were forty-five days before the day of the cockfight, and his wife grabbed the colonel by the collar, shook it vigorously, and asked, "What do we eat?"

The Colonel was frank:

Eat. End of the full text.

The work depicts the complicated feelings of an old colonel in his 70s who is looking forward to a pension but cannot do so, and the embarrassing life that arises from it. At a young age (19 years old), the colonel took part in the "war for the defense of the republic". After the war, the new ** promised to give them a pension to spend their old age in peace, his wife suffered from severe asthma, and his son also died in a cockfight.

But this wait for the colonel became a desperate wait, day after day, year after year.

Although "The Colonel Who Nobody Wrote to Him" was not favored by the publishers when it was published, and the publishers were not even willing to pay the manuscript fee, believing that it was generous enough to publish for him, it received a lot of praise after its publication. Some literary critics believe that "The Colonel Who Didn't Have a Man to Write to Him" is no less than "One Hundred Years of Solitude" in terms of artistic success, and the character of the colonel is one of the most successful characters portrayed by Marquez.

The Chilean poet and philosopher Roberto Bolaño described it as "a perfect work".

Márquez himself is a super-magician, both in terms of character and storyline.

But there is basically nothing magical in "The Colonel", but a cruel reality, war, poverty and sickness, the loss of children and the inaction of bureaucrats. It's a kind of surreal rationality.

The colonel lived to be 75 years old, 56 years waiting, and fifteen years waiting for a letter that has not been heard from. "Fifty-six years have passed since the last civil war, and the only thing the colonel has done is wait, and there are only a handful of things that have been waited", an irrational person is completely unable to wait for a long time.

The colonel has a distinct personality, he is pure, straightforward, kind, and resolute. In order to preserve his personal dignity, the colonel calmly went to meet death. In the final part, when the wife tells the colonel that the lads "took the chickens away," "they also say that the chickens are not ours, but the whole town."

The colonel said calmly: "They did the right thing. And decided:

The chickens are not for sale. At this point, the Colonel's temperament was further sublimated.

Quite a few years ago, Zhenbao Island killed a colonel in Maozi, which is great.