One Hundred Years Of Solitude Penguin Modern Classics

One hundred years of solitude highlights the fundamental truth that it is our passion that makes us human and in our solitude these passions can destroy us.

One hundred years of solitude penguin modern classics. Gabriel garcía márquez s great masterpiece is the story of seven generations of the buendía family and of macondo the town they have built. People make it seem like it s impossible to get through so many repeating names but even when the characters share a name almost every single character until the last generation and by that point the first characters are long gone so that it wasn t really confusing has a unique name. One hundred years of solitude this edition published in 1970 by penguin modern classics in london. Blending political reality with magic realism fantasy with comic invention one hundred years of solitude is one of the most daringly original works of the twentieth century.

Equally tragic joyful and comical gabriel garcía márquez s masterpiece of magical realism one hundred years of solitude is a seamless blend of fantasy and reality translated from the spanish by gregory rabassa in penguin modern classics. It is jose arcadio buendia s wife ursula iguaran that marches inexorably on through the decades as a seemingly eternal guardian to her family far more of a matriarch than her husband is a patriarch. One hundred years of solitude really isn t as difficult or confusing as some reviews make it seem. One of the most influential literary works of our time one hundred years of solitude remains a dazzling and original achievement by the masterful gabriel garcia marquez winner of the nobel prize in literature.