One Hundred Years of Solitude (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Gabriel García Márquez
- First Published: 1967
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Magical Realism
- Time of Work: 1820’s to 1920’s
- Setting: Macondo, a town in Latin America
- Principal Characters: José Arcadio Buendía, Úrsula Iguarán, Melquíades, Colonel Aureliano Buendía, José Arcadio Buendía, Amaranta, Rebeca, Pietro Crespi, Aureliano Segundo, José Arcadio Segundo, Remedios the Beauty, Aureliano, Aureliano
- 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 Story:
Standing before a firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía remembered the day that his father, José Arcadio Buendía, had taken him to see ice for the first time. This had taken place in the early years of Macondo, the town that the elder Buendía, his wife Úrsula, and others had founded after José Arcadio and Úrsula had sought to escape the ghost of a man that José Arcadio had killed. The dead man had accused José Arcadio of impotence, when the real reason that the Buendías had avoided sex for so long after marriage was that they were afraid of producing a...
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