Introduction
In the mid-1960s journalist and fiction writer Gabriel Jose Garcia Marquez was little known outside his native Colombia, having never sold more than 700 copies […]
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
In 1928, the year when more than 100 local strikers were massacred, Garcia Marquez was born in Aracataca, Colombia. His first years were spent with […]
Plot Summary
A The Founding of Macondo One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez tells the story of the Buendia family and the fictional town […]
Characters
A Mauricio Babilonia Always accompanied by yellow butterflies, Mauricio gains access to Meme through the roof over the bathtub, where a man once fell to […]
Themes
A Solitude The dominant theme of the novel, as evident from the title, is solitude. Each character has his or her particular form of solitude. […]
Construction
A Climax The Hungarian composer Bela Bartok fascinates Garcia Marquez and so the author constructed his novel along this composer’s line. For example, he configured […]
Historical Perspective
A Origins of the Colombian State Knowing the history of the country of Colombia can provide considerable insight into the political battles that take place […]
Further Reading
Based on his studies of Francisco Franco, dictator of Spain, Garcia Marquez’s 1975 work El otono del patriarca (translated in 1977 as The Autumn of […]