Resumo de A Colonel, A Rooster, A Village

In 'The Colonel has no one to write him' Gabriel Garcia Marquez precedes his famous macondinean saga with its nostalgic psychologies, with the step of age in his characters, with the clearly defined american geography, in spite of the deliberate vagueness of references; but at the same time also offers us a story which has literary value by itself. It is the unexpected event of an old and poor colonel who shares the solitude of his dead son with his wife; who awaits the saving arrival of his pension by post; elderly warrior with an Don Quijote air in contrast with the practicality of his wife. On top the main character, and here we approach the crux of the matter, maintains a fighting rooster which had been his sons; and so the animal shows itself as a type of emotional continuation through death. And above all a symbol of the village. In effect, the relation between matter or money and idea or revolution centers around the rooster, if we want to get into symbolism. Sometimes the principal characters want to sell the rooster, at other times they decide that it should continue fighting in the henfights, which decision is the most eminent one as a diversion for the village and its non-conformist cause, of which the dead son has also been addicted to and for which they had made him offer his life. The story possessesa skilfull summary and is full of suggestions. All of its ample meanings of its psychological would-be plot, verbal or through action are not spurned in the almost journalistic concise style in which it is written. The old man is a resigned man and hopeful at the same time. His speach is sometimes fatalistic, but always keeps the hope of the post; which should bring him news of the war pension that he awaits and which, he hopes, will take his marriage out of the misery, and in this way not having to sell the rooster of his son, always strolling in the novelistic sphere. That which surrounds the imminent intimate plot - the melancholic feelings and desires of the old soldier - takes us to the turbulences of the hispanic Americas; in fact, the same colonel is a veteran of one of the so many civil wars. Garcia Marquez, therefore, does not stay without looking at the village and the society surrounding the soldier, his wife and the always present and ominous memories of the son. But it's this memory, and its materialization in the fighting rooster, which permits uniting the individual with the social. The rooster is not sold and will continue fighting. The colonel prefers poverty, and even hunger, above selling that part of his own son which he had left as a legacy, after his violent death in an also violent environment. The dialogues and descriptions of this narrative are very vivid in their shortness; the development is therefore principally descriptive, and many times those dialogues - concise, plain - describe and show emotions. Emotions, acts, thoughts which permit to make a smart and very readable mixture in this work of intricate laconism: which is possible to realize among the communal destiny of man and the yearning and longing of the individual in solitude.

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