One Hundred Years of Solitude
Buendía family saga
One Hundred Years of Solitude is a 1967 novel by Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez, following seven generations of the Buendía family in the fictional town of Macondo.
The book is considered a masterwork of magical realism, weaving the fantastical into everyday life.
It established García Márquez internationally and contributed to his Nobel Prize in Literature.
The Spanish title is *Cien años de soledad*.
- forgotten townSettlement lost to memory
- magical realismFiction blending miraculous and mundane
- family curseMisfortune plaguing a lineage
- ColombiaEquatorial South American republic
- banana plantationTropical fruit cultivation site
Gabriel García Márquez · love letters · generations · gypsies · alchemy · ice · firing squad · butterflies · rain · prophecy · incest · civil war · parchments · nostalgia · tropical · yellow flowers · decay · memory
- 20th Century Books1984, Animal Farm, Brave New World, Catch-22, Grapes of Wrath
- Classic BooksPride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre, Moby Dick, Moby-Dick, Great Expectations
- García Márquezmagical realism, Nobel Prize
- Hispanic LiteratureGabriel Garcia Marquez, Pablo Neruda, Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes, Isabel Allende
- literary fictionliterary realism, contemporary fiction, character-driven, character study, character studies
- magical realismGabriel Garcia Marquez, Isabel Allende, Salman Rushdie, magical elements, supernatural events
One Hundred Years of SolitudeMrs Dalloway
Ulysses · The Stranger · The Metamorphosis · A Christmas Carol · short stories
One Hundred Years of Solitudesocial realism
Unidealized portrayal of workers' lives
naturalism · documentary fiction · kitchen sink realism · The Jungle · Hemingway
One Hundred Years of Solitudetogetherness
State of close connection
Middlemarch · communion · War and Peace · social integration · connection
hundred, hundreds, hundredth, hundredfold, yearly, yearling, solitude, solitary, desolate