Gabriel García Márquez's "Death Constant Beyond Love”
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Happy New Year! Please join the Asheville Short Story Club (East) for our next reading, “Death Constant Beyond Love” by Gabriel García Márquez, the Nobel Prize–winning Colombian author known for blending political insight with lyrical storytelling. This short story follows a powerful politician confronting love and mortality during a staged campaign visit, revealing the emptiness beneath authority and spectacle. Through irony and quiet tenderness, Márquez explores themes of power, corruption, loneliness, and the inescapability of death.
Please note, this meeting is on a Wednesday (we usually meet Tuesdays)
The short story can be read by clicking here.
(If you have trouble with the link please me (Adam) know)
See ya there!
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Reading and discussion for the Asheville Short Story Club (East) of Márquez’s short story on power and death; members will analyze themes of power and loneliness.
AI summary
By Meetup
Reading and discussion for the Asheville Short Story Club (East) of Márquez’s short story on power and death; members will analyze themes of power and loneliness.