If we say without contrast that Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez He is the most widely read Latin American author of all time, we are not very "afraid" of being wrong. He has written countless books and which one is better, but his most read book is undoubtedly "One Hundred Years of Solitude", published in 1967.
"One Hundred Years of Solitude" is the emblematic novel of the tree and masterpiece of magical realism. It tells the story of a total of seven generations of a family persecuted by a fatal destiny, which symbolically summarizes the socio-political evolution of the continent.
Synopsis of the book
"One Hundred Years of Solitude" it symbolizes the isolation and frustration of the human being in the BuendÃa saga and the American reality in the mythical space of Macondo. With an overflowing narrative capacity, GG Márquez is situated in a cyclical time in which the everyday and the wonderful are confused.
The foundation of Macondo
José Arcadio BuendÃa and Úrsula Iguarán get married despite being cousins. They depart from Riohacha and found the town known as Macondo.
The transformations
The town suffers various wars, changes of government in its internal politics and transformations that influence the life of the family. Macondo, then, ceases to be a mythical space to become an industrialized space.
The destruction
The last couple in the BuendÃa saga, Aureliano Babilonia and his aunt Amaranta Úrsula, father a child with a pig's tail. The end of the line is approaching, since the mother will die after giving birth and the child will be eaten by ants. Aureliano Babilonia then reads the scrolls where the gypsy MelquÃades, a character who appears at the beginning of the novel, had written his family's history a hundred years in advance.
Some mythical phrases of "One Hundred Years of Solitude"
- "The essential thing is not to lose orientation."
- "I did not understand how to go to the extreme of making a war over things that could not be touched with the hands."
- "I, for my part, only now realize that I am fighting for pride."
- How rare are men. They spend their lives fighting against priests and give away prayer books.
- "The secret of a good old age is nothing more than an honest pact with loneliness."
- "The oldest cry in the history of mankind is the cry of love."
- "You don't die when you should, but when you can."
- "By trying to make her love him, he ended up loving her."
- "An alert old age can be more accurate than deck inquiries."
- "Lost in the solitude of his immense power, he began to lose his way."