One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel García Márquez(1967)
Novelc. 420 pages
“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.”
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by Gabriel García Márquez(1967)
“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.”
Gabriel García Márquez(1967)
The Buendía family founds the town of Macondo and lives through seven generations of solitude, incest, revolution, and banana company massacres. García Márquez wrote the novel in eighteen months of feverish composition, selling his car to finance the time, and invented what came to be called magical realism. The first sentence is the most famous opening in Spanish literature. The last sentence is the most devastating closing. Between them, Latin American fiction found a voice that the world could not ignore.