One Hundred Years of Solitude | Characters
At once a source of confusion for the reader as well as an intricate thematic device, characterization is of primary importance in establishing the mythical level of reality which pervades One Hundred Years of Solitude. Accused of being deliberately mischievous while simultaneously creating the illusion of timelessness, Garcia Marquez integrates the lives of his characters by the similarity of circumstance fused by the repetitive use of names. Interestingly, unlike the original version in Spanish, the English edition of the novel required a genealogy chart to accurately depict the...
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