One Hundred Years of Solitude (Identities and Issues in Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Gabriel García Márquez
- First Published: 1967
- 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
The Work
Chronicling the history of a family that begins with José Arcadio Buendía and ends with Aureliano Babilonia one hundred years later, One Hundred Years of Solitude tells the history of the fictional town of Macondo. One Hundred Years of Solitude is also, in a sense, one hundred years’ history of Colombia as well. The work mixes the magical and the factual in a manner that is as true to human experience as the purely factual is.
José Arcadio Buendía marries his cousin, Úrsula, despite their fear of engendering a child with a pig’s tail. They...
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