One Hundred Years of Solitude (Magill Book Reviews)
At a glance:
- Author: Gabriel García Márquez
- First Published: 1967
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Magical Realism
- Subjects: Family or family life, Sex or sexuality, Twentieth century, Supernatural, Nineteenth century, Revolutions, Ghosts or apparitions, Fantasy, Small-town life, Fate or fatalism, Latin America or Latin Americans, Gypsies
- Locales: Macondo, Colombia
At the center of this extraordinarily vast yet oddly claustrophobic novel is the Buendia family, whose fortunes--or, more commonly, misfortunes--Garcia Marquez chronicles for the one hundred years of the title and whose story ultimately encapsulates the entire history of mankind, from genesis to apocalypse.
Appropriately, this novel of five generations of Buendias begins with an original sin, the murder of Prudencio Aguilar by the family patriarch, Jose Arcadio Buendia, whose subsequent wanderings lead to the founding of Macondo.
The patriarch’s vision of Macondo as a...
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