Essays on Aureliano

Introduction

In the novel one hundred years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez tells the history of the Buendia family, which is the founding family of Macondo town. For many years, the town had remained secluded from the rest of the world with the only visitors it received being the gypsies who were peddlers. Moreover, José Arcadio Buendía, who was the head of this family, had impulsive personality, inquisitive, and always alienated himself from most men. In correspondence, most of his descendants inherited his character traits. After some years, the previously innocent village began creating numerous ties with other towns. ...

“One Hundred Years of Solitude” (Cien Añosde Soledad) is a magical realist novel created by Gabriel García Márquez in 1967. This novel is referred to as the Don Quixote of Latin America because of its overwhelming popularity (Jay Corwin, 4). The novel does not have any clear and obvious philosophy that is why the perception of this novel is very individualistic. The tragic and mystique ending pushes to the idea that multiple aspects of life that are described in the novel are heavily criticized by García Márquez (Jay Corwin, 4). And one of these ...

Compare sections of Gould’s Book of Fish and 100 Years of Solitude

Introduction Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the author of 100 Years of Solitude, is a novelist of Columbia origin. He is also a screenwriter, short-story writer and a journalist. He is a decorated author and considered a very significant author of the twentieth century. Hs literary works have been recognized with various awards; one of them being the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 1972 and the Nobel Prize in Literature ten years later. The author left law school to pursue a self-directed career and education in journalism. In his lifetime, he has not been inhibited in criticizing both foreign and Columbian politics. The author is ...