One Hundred Years Of Solitude Book Summary

The plot is based on a hundred years history of a made up town called macondo.

One hundred years of solitude book summary. One hundred years of solitude is the history of the isolated town of macondo and of the family who founds it the buendías. The patriarch of the family josé arcadio buendía is impulsive and inquisitive. It is considered to be one of his best works. The book follows seven generations of the buendias and the rise and fall of macondo.

For years the town has no contact with the outside world except for gypsies who occasionally visit peddling technologies like ice and telescopes. At first prosperous the town attracts gypsies and hucksters among them the old writer melquíades a stand in for the author. Patriarch josé arcadio buendía builds the utopian city of macondo in the middle of a swamp. We live the history of the town through seven generations of the family buendia.

One hundred years of solitude is both the history of macondo a small town in an unnamed region of south america and the town s founders the buendia family. The family patriarch jose arcadio buendia founded the town with his wife ursula iguaran.