Cien años de soledad
1967
- spanish language books
- fiction
- social conditions
- macondo (imaginary place)
- novel
- magic realism
- latinamerican literature
- condiciones sociales
- novela
- literatura épica
The story
*Cien años de soledad* es una novela del escritor colombiano Gabriel García Márquez, ganador del Premio Nobel de Literatura en 1982. Es considerada una obra maestra de la literatura hispanoamericana y universal, cumbre del denominado "realismo mágico". Es asimismo una de las obras más traducidas y leídas en español. Narra la historia de la familia Buendía a lo largo de siete generaciones en el pueblo ficticio de Macondo. ---------- *Cien años de soledad* is considered the best work of García Márquez. A novel that narrates the vicisitudes of Aureliano Buendía in the mythic Macondo, a town in some unknown region of Colombia. This novel was written in the magic realism ("realismo mágico"), a style that mix together amazing elements taken by fiction and reality.
What it’s like
Dense, humid prose that moves like a slow fever: long sentences folding back on themselves, rain that lasts for years, yellow butterflies drifting through rooms where the furniture has grown old with the family. The voice is patient and faintly amused, delivering the miraculous and the mundane in the same unhurried tone, so a ghost at the dinner table or a plague of insomnia reads as ordinary household business. The sensory world is thick with heat, mud, cinnamon, the smell of rain on tin roofs and of decay in a shuttered house, while the town of Macondo feels both invented and painfully familiar. Its vibe is melancholy and wry, cyclical and tender, best with unhurried time: a slow weekend, a long train journey, a candlelit evening alone with a book. Violence and cruelty occur, often brutal and sudden but delivered with detachment; sexual content is frank and recurrent, and death is frequent. It suits readers who love sprawling family sagas, lyrical language, and the uncanny, and who can tolerate a story that circles back on itself rather than rushing forward.
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