![]() ![]() The main story chronicles six generations of the Buendías, dense as the tropical forests of Latin America and spanning more than one hundred years. In this 417-page magnum opus, García Márquez weaves the stories of people’s lives in a Colombian village, Macondo, in a prose style now famous as magical realism. The omnipotent narrator begins in the present, telling us that “many years later” a condemned man would be facing a firing squad and remembers a seemingly trivial incidence: his discovery as a boy “that distant afternoon,” as he touched a large cube of ice, which his father would later say was “the great invention of our time.” In the opening sentence of his extraordinary masterpiece, Gabriel García Márquez distilled the recurring themes of One Hundred Years of Solitude 1: the absurdity of death, the restorative power of memory, and the amazement of a discovery rolled into the eternal cycle of time. “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.” ![]() Reconstructing memories and history in One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez September 21, 2021 ![]()
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