One Hundred Years of Solitude is often refered to as an unforgettable novel, do you agree

A detailed Summary of One Hundred Years of Solitude is often refered to as an unforgettable novel, do you agree

One of the stated aims of Marquez, as he said it, was to "tell a story just like my grandmother would have done it". With the result in hand the conclusion must be that he has done it quite well. Marquez has managed to capture the vivid language of story telling as well as having the story moving both " forward and sideways". Togheter with the extensive use of magic realism and the life of mankind portrayed in the village I´m quite sure that it will take me many years before I even start forgetting the book. In the beginning of the book the reader is directly thrown into action with Colonel Aureliano facing the firing squad. With his thoughts we are taken several years back in time when Macao was a village of twenty adobe houses. This, the beginning of the town, could in a differen

t light be seen as representing the begining of mankind , "clear water that ran along a bed of polished stones, which were white and enormous, like prehistoric eggs.". As the story goes on the town moves from utter igorance " the world was so recent that many things lacked names" and developes until we are in the modern time with the banana company, telephones and the union until it, towards the end of the book due to heavy rainfall, turns into an uncivilized town again before it´s destroyed in a heavy storm. The cycle of the town starts and ends on the same point just as the development of the family and all actions, they all turn in cycles just as Ùrsula thanks to her old age found out. The way in which the story is written, with magic realism and the story evolving both forwards

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Colonel Aureliano, , Father Nicanor, South American, Noble Prize, magic realism, Garcìa Marquez,

Approximate Word count = 528
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: English

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