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A hundred years of solitude

Advantages: Good
Disadvantages: Nothing

A hundred years of solitude or in spanish "Cien Años de Soledad" is for the best book I've ever read because the story that Gabriel Garcia Marquez is about a family The Buendias on the city named Macondo, that it seems a tipical jungle cities in Colombia when Garcia Marquez was born and lived his years of life. On the Macondo's description on the first lines of this book he describes Aracataca (the city where Garcia Marquez was born). About the story it talks about Macondo's foundation and its first people living there: The Buendias in 4th generation where the Buendia family's names are reapiting as Jose Arcadio, Aureliano so Don Jose Arcadio Buendia is the father or Jose Arcadio Buendia and he is the father of Jose Arcadio, Aureliano, etc, etc being a little confuse understanding it. The future of The Buendia is writing on some ...

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Review of One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

One Hundred Years of Solitude - Marquez

Advantages: An ambitious and rewarding read
Disadvantages: Confusing to read without background knowledge of subject matter

's Odyssey, through Moby Dick, War and Peace and East of Eden writers have clothed bigger themes in the story of a person, a family or a region. One Hundred Years of Solitude takes this further, the main events in the story are matched by real events in the history of Marquez' native Columbia. Columbia gained independence from Spain around 1820, roughly the starting point of the story. The bitter and drawn out civil wars, the Treaty of Neerlandia, the commercial invasion by the banana company that did so much to steal the soul of Macondo and the ensuing massacre of striking workers are all mirrored by real events that happened in Columbia's own history. The authors own family had served in the real civil wars and appear here as characters in the book. There are many other instances like the above and with this contextual information I started ...

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Review of One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Advantages: Excellent Social Commentary
Disadvantages: Confusing names and places

and philosophical fronts, but in essence 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' is a page-turner and a great read. The only consideration when reading this book is that ideally you should set aside plenty of time to read it, as names and places can become confusing if left for any sizeable length of time. ...

pjb1488 21.10.2007 · Read full review
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Review of One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez