1967 OneHundredYearsofSolitude

• (Márquez, 1967) ⇒ Gabriel García Márquez. (1967). “One Hundred Years of Solitude."

Subject Headings: Colombia, Magic Realism, Patriarchy, Colombian Culture.

Notes

• It explores the magical realist style, contributing significantly to its recognition and popularity in world literature.
• It narrates the multi-generational story of the Buendía family, blending the ordinary with the supernatural in a fictional town called Macondo.
• It reflects on themes such as solitude, the cyclical nature of history, and the inevitability of fate, drawing heavily on Colombian history and culture.
• It uses a non-linear narrative, with time often looping back on itself, to illustrate the repetitive nature of the Buendía family's history and the broader human condition.
• It incorporates political and social commentary elements, particularly on the nature of Latin American political strife and the impact of external forces on local cultures.
• It has achieved critical acclaim and widespread influence, often considered a seminal work in the Latin American Boom literature movement and in post-colonial literature.

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2016

• (Wikipedia, 2016) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Hundred_Years_of_Solitude Retrieved:2016-1-15.
  • One Hundred Years of Solitude is a 1967 novel by Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez that tells the multi-generational story of the Buendía family, whose patriarch, José Arcadio Buendía, founds the town of Macondo, the metaphoric Colombia.

    The magical realist style and thematic substance of One Hundred Years of Solitude established it as an important, representative novel of the literary Latin American Boom of the 1960s and 1970s, which was stylistically influenced by Modernism (European and North American) and the Cuban Vanguardia (Avant-Garde) literary movement. One Hundred Years of Solitude was first published in Spanish in 1967; it has subsequently been translated into thirty-seven languages and has sold more than 30 million copies. The novel remains widely acclaimed today, and is considered by many to be Márquez's masterpiece.

Quotes

"Muchos años después, frente al pelotón de fusilamiento, el coronel Aureliano Buendía había de recordar aquella tarde remota en que su padre lo llevó a conocer el hielo."

• "Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice."

"El secreto de una buena vejez no es otra cosa que un pacto honrado con la soledad."

• "The secret of a good old age is nothing but a pact honored with solitude."

"No tenía ninguna virtud, pero había logrado que el amor no fuera un impedimento para el amor."

• "He had no virtue, but he had managed to make love not an impediment to love."

"Las estirpes condenadas a cien años de soledad no tenían una segunda oportunidad sobre la tierra."

• "Races condemned to one hundred years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth."

"No hay medicina que cure lo que no cura la felicidad."

• "There is no medicine that cures what happiness cannot."

"Remedios, la bella, ascendió al cielo en cuerpo y alma, sin que nadie pudiera evitarlo."

• "Remedios, the beauty ascended to heaven in body and soul, and no one could prevent it."

References

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	Author	volume	Date Value	title	type	journal	titleUrl	doi	note	year
1967 OneHundredYearsofSolitude	Gabriel García Márquez (1927-2014)			One Hundred Years of Solitude						1967