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One Hundred Years of Solitude (original 1967; edition 1998)

by Gabriel García Márquez (Author)

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The rise and fall, birth and death, of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendia family.
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Title:One Hundred Years of Solitude
Authors:Gabriel García Márquez (Author)
Info:Perennial (1998), Edition: Reprint, 464 pages
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One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez (1967)

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Cien años de soledad es una historia perfecta: tragedia, triunfo y el círculo de la vida. Desde las primeras líneas hasta la última página, Gabriel García Márquez, mezcla magia con realidad para crear personajes inolvidables. Es el primer libro que leo en español y la poesía de cada línea me hace enamorarme aún más del idioma.

It is a flawless representation of the human experience. I will read it again in English and again in Spanish and treasure this work for all of its profound insights. ( )
  Andrew.Lafleche | Mar 15, 2024 |
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  AnkaraLibrary | Feb 23, 2024 |
Harold Bloom describes his response as being “aesthetic battle fatigue” I had a very similar response. paused around the 50% mark. Post civil war, pre-banana massacre.
  ben_a | Feb 20, 2024 |
I started reading this book more than 25 years ago and just could not get into. In fact, I still had the bookmark in it where I abandoned in that last attempt. I set out to read it again and struggled at the beginning. The only reason I persevered was because I chose this book for our book club. Part of what I found most difficult was the numerous characters with the same or similar names, and given that the story is not told in linear time, it was easy to confuse them. But as I got deeper into the story, I became more invested and found that I was enjoying it. It is the multi-generational story of the Buendía family, the patriarch of which, José Arcadio Buendía, founds the (fictional) town of Macondo, a rural Colombian village closer to the coast of the Caribbean than the Pacific. The village is visited by gypsies who bring the discoveries of the world beyond with them as they pass through periodically, exciting the imagination (and obsessions) of José Arcadio, whose wife, Úrsula Iguarán, puts up with his foolishness.

Interestingly, the female figures in the book are the ones who more often than not show wisdom and sanity (although not all of them) and live the longest. I don't know if there is meant to be symbolism in the fantastical events, but over time I got used to the strange moments. I also struggled relating to or even caring about the characters, and yet the story still held my interest. While I read the first quarter of the book over a period of about three weeks - in part because I did not have a lot of free time, but also in part because I was struggling with it - I read the last nearly 300 pages in one day. Through his masterful storytelling, Gabriel García Márquez captured some key elements of Colombian history in the 20th century - how it affected the people in the more primitive and remote areas from guerilla warfare to the arrival of the railway, movies, telephones, cars, American (US) exploitation of natural resources (in this case, bananas), clashes between Liberals and Conservatives, the exploitation of plantation workers, who eventual go on strike and are later massacred - depending on whose version of history gets told and whose gets wiped out. ( )
  bschweiger | Feb 4, 2024 |
Finally finished Cien Anos de Soledad. I read the English version translated by Gregory Rabassa. Some last lines of this novel has a melancholy effects on me.
“Before reaching the final line, however, he had already understood that he would never leave that room, for it was foreseen that the city of mirrors (or mirages) would be wiped out by the wind and exiled from the memory of men at the precise moment when Aureliano Babilonia would finish deciphering the parchments, and that everything written on them was unrepeatable since time immemorial and forever more, because races condemned to one hundred years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth.”

So their life was a curse, so their magical town was a curse, so there was nothing but a condemned life in Buendias family and their mad house was condemned too. The last line really has a dramatic effect on me, ‘races condemned to one hundred years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth.’ Like, I realized it then that after all, we’re all humans and we’re all condemned with our desolation, our solitude, and in the end, we’re nothing but a race that walk rights into our fear.

The saddest part of Cien Anos de Soledad, I think, is the fact that time is cicling. Jose Arcadio Buendia killed Prudencio Agullar due to his lament joke about Jose Arcadio Buendia’s marriage. Meanwhile, Jose Arcadio Buendia still didn’t have a child because of Ursula Iguaran’s fear. His wife was scared with incest, with the certain truth of future about their marriage. Fear is an energy and it was transformed into rage which killed Prudencio Agullar. Yet the energy was still there, since the dead Prudencio Agullar was comically haunting Jose Arcadio Buendia. It then led them to ran away, finding Macondo. The irony of it was Jose Arcadio Buendia thought Macondo as Eden, yet it was only a sad and devastating sanctuary for him. He was cursed and his family was cursed since the day he killed Prudencio Agullar, and Ursula Iguaran was cursed and her family was cursed since the day she consummated her marriage. The fear and guilt they had had lasted them into the family with seven generations, yet life in fear was nothing and there’s no love in their life. The one who dare to loved was finally died alone, drowned in their solitudeness and desolation, yet the rest lived long enough with a solitude air between them. ( )
  awwarma | Jan 24, 2024 |
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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.
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.
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Shumë vjet më vonë, përballë togës së pushkatimit, kolonel Aureliano Buendía-s do t'i kujtohej ajo pasdite e largët kur i ati e çoi të shihte akullin.
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Много години по-късно, пред взвода за разстрел, полковник Аурелиано Буендия щеше да си спомни онзи далечен подиробед, когато баща му го заведе да види леда.
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Molts anys després, enfront de l'escamot d'afusellament, el Coronel Aureliano Buendía hauria de recordar aquella vesprada remota en què el seu pare el va portar a conéixer el gel.
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The rise and fall, birth and death, of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendia family.

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Da José Arcadio ad Aureliano, dalla scoperta del ghiaccio alla decifrazione delle pergamene di Melquíades: sette generazioni di Buendía inseguono un destino ineluttabile. Con questo romanzo tumultuoso che usa i toni della favola, sorretto da un linguaggio portentoso e da una prodigiosa fantasia, Gabriel García Márquez ha saputo rifondare la realtà e, attraverso Macondo, creare un vero e proprio paradigma dell'esistenza umana. Un universo di solitudini incrociate, impenetrabili ed eterne, in cui galleggia una moltitudine di eroi. Edizione del cinquantenario (1967-2017).
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