One Hundred Years of Solitude

Gabriel Garcia Márquez, the late Colombian author, published his most famous work, One Hundred Years of Solitude, in 1967. The novel follows the Buendía family through seven generations, from the founding of their town Macondo to its destruction, as well as the last of the family's descendants.

The novel explores the genre of magical realism in fantastical form by emphasizing the extraordinary nature of commonplace things while mystical things are shown to be common. Márquez emphasizes the importance and power of myth and folktale in telling the history and culture of Latin America. Márquez received numerous awards for the novel, which paved the way for his eventual award of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982 for his entire body of work, of which One Hundred Years of Solitude is widely regarded as his most triumphant.

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