"A Happy Funeral in a Dream and Twelve Stories from a Foreign Land" by García Márquez

"Joyful Funeral in Dreams and Twelve Stories from a Foreign Land" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Translated by Luo Xiu

"Preface"

Dream The joy of funerals, stories of stories and wastebaskets, the joy of writing and stories.

1. "Have a nice trip, Mr. President"

?The overthrown and down-and-out exile president lives in a foreign country with no money to treat his illness.

The ambulance driver who recognized the president and the couple who planned to make a fortune from the president.

In the end, he helped the president pawn his valuable items. Helped the president return to his motherland. Even the children’s savings were used.

Before the president left, he left his late wife’s wedding ring and his personal pocket watch to the couple’s two children.

After the treatment, the president was able to return to the country. The pain was still there, but he no longer had the previous taboos on eating, and he no longer believed in the prophecy of coffee grounds.

A six-page handwritten letter to the couple who had helped him, his true intention: For a just cause and a dignified motherland, he wanted to return to his hometown and join the forefront of the reform movement. Even if it can only lead to such a trivial reputation as not dying of old age on the sickbed. The trip to Geneva was God’s will.

2. "The Holy Girl"

Magrido Duarte's beautiful daughter who died at the age of seven, her appearance has not changed after being buried for eleven years.

?The longevity of the body is a clear sign of the saint’s apparition.

The people in the village raised money to send Maglido on the road and wanted to hear the opinion of the Holy See.

Twenty-two years have passed, and after countless waits and disappointments, disappointments and expectations, Magrido still insists on his original persistence.

?"Five popes have died, and the immortal Rome is beginning to show signs of decline, and he is still waiting."

?"So there is no doubt in my mind, If there ever was one: he is the real saint. Unknowingly, through his daughter’s immortal body, he has been struggling for twenty-two years to complete his unobjectionable cause of becoming a saint. ”

3. "Sleeping Beauty Flight"

The author met an exquisite beauty at the airport, but could not find her in the waiting room out of boredom.

But God willing, he sat next to a beautiful woman on a flight delayed by a snowstorm.

The beauty was speechless all the way, and she fell asleep peacefully after all the exquisite arrangements.

But "I" struggled all the way.

?"She woke up without any help. She looked so beautiful and full of life, as if she had just slept among the roses."

?"She It took just enough time for her to look at me before the cabin door opened."

"She left without even saying goodbye, and without even a half-word thanking me. We have paid so much for our happy night, and just disappeared in the sunshine among the high-rise buildings as dense as the Amazon rainforest in New York.”

?4. "Dream Hunter"

?"What does she do?" "Nothing," "She only dreams."

?A Colombian woman whose only occupation is "dreaming for hire", because when she was a child, she dreamed At the dinner table, he told his dream, a dream with the "purest foresight", and was later hired to dream, and even received assets as a gift from his employer.

A few years later, a huge wave in the sea pushed her and her car into the side wall of the hotel. The car was destroyed and everyone died. At that time, she was the housekeeper of the new Portuguese ambassador in Havana, "she only dreamed."

5. "I Just Came to Make a Phone Call"

Maria de la Luz Cervantes, a slightly famous juggler, performed in the Spring Festival While driving home alone in the evening, the car broke down.

She just wanted to make a call to her husband, who was a magician, so as not to delay his normal work, which required her assistance.

By some strange coincidence, he got on a ride to a mental hospital, and from then on he lived in a mental hospital without ever leaving.

Because of the countless lovers she had had, and because she had left and returned, her jealous husband took it for granted that she had left him again, and his heart was full of hatred.

After Maria resigned herself to the female caretaker in order to have a phone call with her husband, her husband came to visit her. But he didn't take her away.

After two visits, Maria refused her husband’s visit.

After several failed attempts, Saturno surrendered completely.

I just leave cigarettes regularly at the concierge for her, and I don’t know if they will get to her.

Later, “I only heard that he got married again and returned to his country.”

“Before leaving Barcelona, ??he left the starving cat behind. To a dewy lover, in addition to taking care of the cat, she also promised to continue delivering cigarettes to Maria."

"One day the mental hospital became a ruin, an ugly relic of that gloomy era. Devastated."

"When they last met, Maria seemed sober, slightly stout, and content with the quiet life in the mental hospital, because she had brought the cat with her that day. The money left by Saturn to feed the cat has been used up."

6. "August Horror"

A couple who do not believe in ghosts, there is a ghost in a legend. The castle is a guest.

Have no choice but to stay overnight.

After a night of nothing, he woke up in the morning and laughed, "It's ridiculous," "There are still people who believe in ghosts."

But they found the two of them lying on the bed of the sad Duke Ludovi. On the bed where Co Sforza stabbed his lover to death, "the blood-stained sheets were still warm."

7. "Maria Dos Prazeres"

An old and lustful prostitute had a dream in which she was convinced that she would die on Christmas Day.

Find a cemetery salesman to prepare your own funeral arrangements. Choose a cemetery that will not be flooded.

Planted flowers and plants around his cemetery. Train your puppy to cry. Train your puppy to find its own cemetery alone.

?I have settled all the inheritance of my inheritance, including the fate of the puppy. I just want the puppy to be free to move around every Sunday and go to the cemetery to cry for her.

One evening when it rained heavily, she and her puppy were isolated in the cemetery.

In the end, a kind-hearted driver who drove a luxury car for others picked her up.

Repeatedly asked to be taken to the downstairs of her house and asked, "Can I go up there?" "It's up to you."

"At that moment, she completely re- After reviewing the dream that had changed her life three years ago, she suddenly realized. "Oh my god. It turned out to be not death."

Finally, she found the door lock and listened. The sound of footsteps in the darkness, and listening to the increasingly clear breathing of the person who was approaching her in the darkness who was as frightened as her, she realized that waiting for so many years and enduring so much pain in the darkness was all worth it. Even just to experience this moment."

8. "Seventeen Poisoned Englishmen"

Prudencia Linero, a Colombian widow. , who has taken care of her husband who has been in a coma for nearly thirty years.

Last year, my husband woke up suddenly, took a lot of photos and gave them to relatives and friends, and then slowly died amidst the farewells of many people, "while waving his hands to say goodbye to everyone."

Prudencia Linero's greatest wish in life was to go to Rome to meet the Pope.

Want to confess to the Pope alone.

The friend who picked her up did not arrive, so she had to be taken to a hotel by the taxi driver.

The bellman took her to the third floor of a building full of hotels, the only one with a restaurant, where seventeen British people in shorts and beach shoes were lying in a row on armchairs in the front room. .

Seeing their "long rows of pink knees" like pork shoulders hanging from a butcher's hook, she made her way to the fifth-floor hotel, which had no restaurant.

At dinner time, Prudencia Linero went to a small shop outside to have dinner.

After the war, food was scarce, but tourists were plentiful. After dinner, she prepared to go back to her hotel, but found that she was lost.

In fear and anxiety, she finally found her hotel. But they found many onlookers, a police car, and a row of ambulances parked in front of the hotel.

Seventeen British people, dressed in formal attire for dinner, were carried into the ambulance one by one.

"They are all dead! They drank oyster soup at dinner and were poisoned to death. Oysters in August, you can believe it!" the female shopkeeper explained.

Prudencia Linero returned to the room and used everything she could to block the door and the fear in her heart.

At the same time, we pray that the souls of the seventeen poisoned British people can rest in peace.

9. "Mountain Demon"

Mountain Demon is the land wind.

Location: Cadaqués.

A concierge, an old sailor, a most helpful person, and very familiar with the effect of the mountain devil on one's emotions.

Before and after the arrival of the mountain devil, he did a lot for the local people, but he hanged himself in his hut on the night when the mountain devil retreated.

A twenty-year-old boy, afraid of being taken to the location of the mountain demon by his companions, "jumped from the moving car into the abyss, trying to escape the inevitable death."

10. "Mrs. Forbes's Happy Summer"

? Mrs. Forbes, who comes from Germany, strictly supervises and studies my brother and I during the day, and starts by herself at night. The most indulgent self-life.

My brother and I planned to kill her with dad's poisoned wine, but on the morning of the third day after she drank the poisoned wine, we found her naked and dead in her room.

?"Her body was covered with numerous stab wounds. Twenty-seven of them were fatal. Judging from the number and cruelty of the wounds, it was clear that they had been stabbed in a frenzy inspired by intense sexual intercourse. , and Mrs. Fulbes accepted the injury with the same passion, without even shouting or crying, but reciting Schiller in her sonorous and beautiful voice like a soldier, knowing clearly that this was the price she had to pay for her happy holiday. ."

11. "Light is Like Water"

Time and time again, the father met the children's requirements, and the children got what they wanted with excellent academic performance.

"This mythical adventure of children began with a thoughtless remark of mine. I was attending a seminar on poetry about household objects, and Toto asked me why a switch The light would come on, and I answered without thinking: 'Light is like water, turn on the faucet and it will come out. '"

"Because they released so much light that the whole room was flooded. All the students in the fourth grade of the St. Julian's School drowned in the fifth-floor apartment of No. 47 Pedestrian Street in Castellana. In Madrid, Spain, the sun was scorching in the summer and the wind was biting in the winter. There is no distant city by the sea or river. People who have lived on solid land for generations have never been good at traveling in the light."

12. "Your Blood on the Snow"

Two children from prominent families are newly married, driving a Bentley given by the boy's father all the way to Paris.

An invisible cut was lightly pricked on the ring finger of the bride who was wearing a wedding ring when she was receiving a rose. A small amount of blood oozed from the wounds along the way, but they didn't pay much attention.

As we approached Paris, the blood flow continued. The boy, under the guidance of the girl, sent the girl to the emergency room.

? He was once the only son of a prominent family in his motherland, and he was once a domineering gangster in his motherland. In a foreign country, without the help of his bride, he was like a headless fly.

Finally, when the visitation period arrived a week later, I was told that the pregnant bride had passed away five days ago. On that weekend when all Parisians were looking for the boy, the boy himself was lost in Paris. The bride returned to her motherland for burial, but the boy failed to take one last look at the most beautiful girl.

?"When he left the hospital, he didn't even notice the snowflakes falling from the sky, no blood stains, soft and white, like dove feathers, and the streets of Paris were full of joy, because it was the first time in ten years that Heavy snowfall."