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One Hundred Years of Solitude

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One Hundred Years of Solitude

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | October 17, 1995 | Hardcover

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)The brilliant, bestselling, landmark novel that tells the story of the Buendia family, and chronicles the irreconcilable conflict between the desire for solitude and the need for love-in rich, imaginative prose that has come to define an entire genre known as "magical realism."

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    Rating: 5/5

    Great Read

    Richard Sukhu

    3 weeks ago

    One hundred years of solitude is a great read. The book is written by Gabriel García Márquez. One Hundred Years of Solitude is the story of seven generations of the Buendía Family in the town of Macondo. The founding patriarch of Macondo, José Arcadio Buendía, and Úrsula, his wife, leave Riohacha, Colombia, to find a better life and a new home. The book explores themes such as; The subjectivity of experienced reality, The inseparability of past, present, and future, and The power of reading and of language. I would recommend this book for anyone over the age of 14 because of the violence.

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    Kristilyn Robertson

    Rating: 1/5

    Classic or not, not worth the read

    Kristilyn Robertson

    4 weeks ago

    I'm going to start this review by saying this: I absolutely hated One Hundred Years of Solitude and have no idea why it's deemed a "classic."

    Shh, quiet down. Let me defend myself.

    This was a book I had to read for my very first book club. Since it was already sitting on my shelf, collecting dust in its unread state, I thought it was great that the book club was reading it and I could finally take it off my TBR list.

    Well, I read it, but was not happy to do so.

    The novel starts off fine, great writing by Marquez, mapping out a magical scene. In fact, the first few pages are amazing to read. I was happy reading them-reading about the gypsies coming to Marcando, bringing normal everyday items that were deemed "magic." It seemed like Marquez was mapping out the beginnings of what would be a fantastic book.

    Of course, the more I read it, the more I realized that this was a book that would not be in my "favourite reads" list.

    The entire book was confusing-is it to be read as realism? Fantasy? Fantastical-realism? Characters would die, but wouldn't be dead; the word "solitude" is used way too many times; offspring had the same names which made being a reader confusing more than once.

    In fact, if I had to relate this book to one most recently released, I would say it's similar to White Teeth, by Zadie Smith, though I liked White Teeth a whole lot more. There's a story going on, people are multiplying, there are things happening, but there's nothing going on that is so huge that makes you keep turning the page. You're introduced to a lot of characters that just go about their days, doing nothing spectacular. It's just one long narrative.

    One long narrative that I could barely stay awake reading (likewise for White Teeth, though at least with that one, I enjoyed the reading and wanted to take in every word. This one? Not so much.). If you're like me, you'll require something light and fluffy after reading this one.

    If you loved this book, then I commend you for gobbling down the pages like they were nobody else's business but your own. Me personally, I plan to donate the book to the library or used book store. It's not that special to me that I feel the urge to keep it around.

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    Rating: 2/5

    Skip It

    Willa

    5 weeks ago

    I really wanted to like this book but sadly I didn't. It was long and boring and I had to force myself to continue reading it. I'm an avid reader but this book was just lost on me. I would not recommend it to anyone.

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    Gabriel

    Rating: 5/5

    One Hundred Years of Solitude

    Gabriel

    13 years ago

    A lot like Marquez's novel Love in the Time of Cholera, in that it gathers power as it rolls along. The style is hypnotic. When I read Marquez, there is love in the world, at all times, everywhere. Marquez's world of love is not a selfish one, of course. The ending of this novel points to this fact. It utterly engulfed me with the long history of love and longing that characterizes the Buendia family's struggle in Latin America.

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A classic of world literature for all time--and probably Marquez's most famous work. "The first piece of literature since the Book of Genesis that should be required reading for the entire human race . . . with more lucidity, wit, wisdom, and poetry than is expected from 100 years of novelists, let alone one man".--Washington Post Book World.

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(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)The brilliant, bestselling, landmark novel that tells the story of the Buendia family, and chronicles the irreconcilable conflict between the desire for solitude and the need for love-in rich, imaginative prose that has come to define an entire genre known as "magical realism."

From the Jacket

This landmark novel by Colombia''s great Nobelist chronicles the irreconcilable conflict in the Buendia family between the desire for solitude and the need for love. Its rich, imaginative prose introduced to the world the genre known as "magical realism."

About the Author

García Márquez was born in Aracataca, Colombia, in 1928. He attended the University of Bogotá and went on to become a reporter for the Colombian newspaper El Espectador. He later served as a foreign correspondent in Rome, Paris, Barcelona, Caracas, and New York. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982, he is the author of several novels and collections, including No One Writes to the Colonel and Other Stories, The Autumn of the Patriarch, Innocent Erendira and Other Stories, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, The General in His Labyrinth, Strange Pilgrims, and Love and Other Demons.

Hardcover

448 Pages, 5.1 x 8.1 x 1.2 IN

October 17, 1995

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group


0679444653
9780679444657

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"You emerge from this marvelous novel as if from a dream, the mind on fire . . . With a single bound, Gabriel García Márquez leaps onto the stage with Günter Grass and Vladimir Nabokov, his appetite as enormous as his imagination, his fatalism greater than either. Dazzling."-THE NEW YORK TIMES"García Márquez forces upon us at every page the wonder and extravagance of life, while compassionately mocking its effusions; and when the book ends . . . we are left with that pleasant exhaustion which only very great novels provide . . . [García Márquez] makes us feel as if we had survived his century of articulate dreams only to awaken and discover that they must finally all come true."-THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS"In a beautiful translation, surrealism and innocence blend to form a wholly individual style. Like rum calentano, the story goes down easily, leaving a rich, sweet burning flavor behind."-TIME"Rabassa''s translation is a triumph of fluent, gravid momentum, all stylishness and commonsensical virtuosity . . . García Márquez feeds the mind''s eye non-stop . . . Like the jungle itself, this novel comes back again and again, fecund, savage and irresistible."-CHICAGO TRIBUNE BOOK WORLD

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