百年孤独为什么值得看 世纪文学经典:《百年孤独》第20章Part5

世纪文学经典:《百年孤独》第20章Part5  

“He’s a real cannibal.?she said. “We’ll name him Rodrigo.?
“No
?her husband countered. “We’ll name him Aureliano and he’ll win thirty-o wars.?
After cutting the umbilical cord
the midwife began to use a cloth to take off the blue grease that covered his body as Aureliano held up a lamp. Only when they turned him on his stomach did they see that he had something more than other men
and they leaned over to examine him. It was the tail of a pig.
They were not alarmed. Aureliano and Amaranta ?rsula were not aware of the family precedent
nor did they remember ?rsula’s frightening admonitions
and the midwife pacified them with the idea that the tail could be cut off when the child got his second teeth. Then they had no time to think about it again
because Amaranta ?rsula was bleeding in an uncontainable torrent. They tried to help her with applications of spider webs and balls of ash
but it was like trying to hold back a spring with one’s hands. During the first hours she tried to maintain her good humor. She took the frightened Aureliano by the hand and begged him not to worry
because people like her were not made to die against their will
and she exploded with laughter at the ferocious remedies of the midwife. But as Aureliano’s hope abandoned him she was being less visible
as if the light on her were fading away
until she sank into drowsiness. At dawn on Monday they brought a woman who recited cauterizing prayers that were infallible for man and beast beside her bed
but Amaranta ?rsula’s passionate blood was insensible to any artifice that did not e from love. In the afternoon
after enty-four hours of desperation
they knew that she was dead because the flow had stopped without remedies and her profile became sharp and the blotches on her face evaporated in a halo of alabaster and she smiled again.