Part 1 of 5 · freeIntroduction
Published in 1967, One Hundred Years of Solitude is the book that carried Magical realism to the world. That style presents magical events with the same calm as real ones, without surprise and without explanation. Gabriel García Márquez, born in 1927 and dead in 2014, traces seven generations of the Buendía family in Macondo, a fictional village based on his hometown.
Political violence, economic imperialism, and ancestral myth are woven together. By breaking the straight line of time, the author lets wonder and tragedy live side by side with disconcerting ease. A rain of yellow flowers or a woman rising into the sky is reported as an ordinary fact.
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- 2The making of a style: Aracataca and the flash of insight
- 3Macondo, between mythic founding and brutal reality
- 4The machinery of the strange and the circle of time
- 5A universal and political legacy
Open-book quiz10 questions whose answers are in the text.
Glossary6 terms explained in a tap.
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