Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "Hundred Years of Solitude"

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez wrote One Hundred Years of Solitude originally in Spanish in 1967 but it has been translated into many different languages ever since becoming a literary must for some. One Hundred Years of Solitude has much to offer with hidden meanings and many literary ideas that are expressed in a creative way.

Marquez had a unique style of writing during his time. He wrote with the sense that magic was real, and everyone should know it and it was a common idea. This was ever present in One Hundred Years of Solitude when many abnormal things would happen but in the life they had, it was common; such as when insomnia took over the town and all the people were happy and excited that this phenomena is taking place. This style of writing was called magical realism. Today this style of writing is much more common and an acceptable form of writing. However in Marquez’s time it was a rare and not many people wrote in this style.

One Hundred Years of Solitude has many different characters enter and leave the story, seven generations of it. All started by the founder of Macondo, Jose Arcadio Buendia and his wife Ursula Iguarian and their bloodline made it seven generations for the complete length of the novel. Macondo being the only town ever present shows the isolation that is always present with everyone. In addition, the children retain the names of their fathers, thus, most all just have the same name. In conclusion, this shows a continuous circle of events repeating themselves and showing a major theme of this story. This story has many different meanings all to be interpreted in their own ways.

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