"The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

It seems that in Gabriel Garcia Marquez' "The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World", the villagers are out there - really out there - on the edge of realism and surrealism. Starting with the kids who first saw the drowned man, initially they believed he was a ship and then a whale, these kids must have had the most creative imagination in twice their age group - I can't help to ask myself what these kids were on.
The central symbol in this story is a man who drowned and washed up on the shore of a small village. He was larger, heavier, better built and better looking than anyone the villag…