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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 863.64
EAN num: 9780060883287
ISBN number: 0060883286
Label: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Manufacturer: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 448
Printing Date: March 01, 2006
Publishing house: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Release Date: February 21, 2006
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One Hundred Years of Solitude tells the story of the rise and fall, birth and death of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family. Inventive, amusing, magnetic, sad, and alive with unforgettable men and women -- brimming with truth, compassion, and a lyrical magic that strikes the soul -- this novel is a masterpiece in the art of fiction.
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In Woody Allen's masterpiece Manhattan, he asks himself "why is life worth living." He proceeds to give a variety of concrete answers such as Willie Mays, Swedish movies and Cezanne's apples and pears. For me, Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 100 Years of Solitude is a reason for living. It is my favorite book of all time.
The writing is beautifully lyrical. This is especially amazing since I have only read English translations. It is one of the most vividly imaginative stories I have ever read. I've read it in high school, college, in my twenties and in my thirties. As I have matured and my knowledge of other cultures has deepened, so has my appreciation for this great work of art.
When I read a book I enjoy, I usually think I might like to read it again someday, maybe. I know for a fact I will read 100 Years of Solitude again and probably several times depending on how long I live. At turns hilarious, tragic, poetic and ribald, 100 Years is a profoundly human and sympathetic understanding of the loneliness and isolation of the individual, families and entire civilizations.
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This is my second favorite book of all time (the very first is One Hundred Years of Solitude (Cien Años de Soledad Spanish Version) by the same author). It tells the story of lovesick Florentino, who has waited for the love of his life, Fermina, for 50 years. Fermina was married to Dr. Juvenal Urbino and therefore unavailable. Their love story began through letters. But then Fermina rejects Florentino because she feels their relationship was naive. She is forced to marry Dr. Urbino by her father. When Dr. Urbino dies, Florentino comes back into Fermina's life and tells her he has waited for her all these years. Then, their correspondence continues and their love grows again.
Garcia Marquez has written an amazing love story that employs elements of magical realism. This only make the story better and even more amazing. This love story is as no other, and only Garcia Marquez could have written such an amzing book. The characters are so well written that they come alive in the pages of this book.
I read the book in Spanish and I reccommend that if you understand Spanish, to read this book in its original language. Although the English translation is good, I feel the Garcia Marquez touch, the "it" that makes this story what it is may get lost in the translation.
This is a book that everyone should read and I cannot reccommend it enough.
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This is another book I admired more than enjoyed. The term "magic realism" has been coined to describe it, but what Garcia Marquez does, is akin to what Kafka and Joyce have done, but in a style less concise than the former, and less abstract than the latter. He tells the fantastic tale of Macondo and the Buendia family in the most sober of styles, offering up surrealism as part family portrait and part Latin American history.
The repetition of names serves as a device to hermetically seal off the Buendias from the rest of society, thus ensuring their solitude. It can be overwhelming at times, and I frequently had to refer to the family tree to get my bearings. Each member of the clan has unique strengths or attributes, as well as fatal flaws, that isolate them from others. The Buendias seem to be in constant struggle, either with themselves, with the rules of society, or with the natural world in the form of ants, scorpions, and torrential rains that last for almost 5 years. The alchemic quest, the transmutation of the dross into the sublime, seems to be a running theme.
Garcia Marquez is very adept at descriptive imagery, but it seems overused at points. I never felt empathy with any character. There is a lack of pathos in this novel. Outrageous humour is in my opinion, one of the chief qualities of this novel, and probably it's greatest strength, more so to me than the surrealism and obvious symbolism.
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What is it about a certain work of fiction that keeps us coming back to it, time and again, as if we're all ancient travellers on the same road of life? ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE is such a work; whenever I travel I take the book with me, dip into its pages, as if I'm skinny-dipping into familiar waters, revisit its characters and scenes, savor its language and wild flights of imagination. Gertrude Stein once said, "If a book is really true, you'll always need it again." How could a work of fiction be this true, this powerful, this overwhelming in its understanding of the human condition? Damned if I know. And I write fiction all the time, with everything I've got, every muscle and bone in my body. Maybe it's got something to do with "magic realism," with the way you tell a story, not conventionally in a straightforward narrative fashion, but rather, in a series of concentric circles, hovering around the characters, around the events of Macondo and the multigenerational families that occupy the landscape, that live it, breathe it, and make you, the reader, part of it.
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I just finished reading "100 Years of Solitude". I really enjoyed it, tho it took me 3 weeks to read it. Everytime I opened it back up to continue where I was I felt like I was stepping back into Macondo. There's no place like it nor is there a family like the Buendia's either. The story and the words used by Marquez are so deep in meaning and a sentence can mean so many things. I loved it and I love the twists and turns the family goes thru like any family. However, I knew what was going to happen in the end, which was really kinda ironic and funny. You have to read to find out.
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