One hundred years of solitude
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The novel Cent'anni di solitudine was published in 1967 and is one of the author's masterpieces (Colombian Nobel Prize winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez), it is a book that opens the Latin American world to the European gaze. The novel, although the result of longer and diluted research work over time, was incredibly written in just 18 months. It seems that some of the stories and events told in the book were inspired by those told by the author's grandmother. One hundred years of solitude has long been considered the most important book in Spanish language literature together with Don Quixote.
The novel tells the centenary story of the Buendia family and the city of Macondo. In an interweaving of fabulous events, according to the premonitory drawing drawn in the scrolls of a gypsy soothsayer, Melquiades, the destiny of the city is fulfilled from the moment of its foundation (by José Arcadio Buendía) to its momentary and disorderly fortune, when the North Americans planted a banana plantation there, until its ruin and definitive decline. The parable of the family follows the parable of loneliness and defeat that is written in Macondo's destiny, pivoting on the 23 civil wars promoted and all lost by Colonel Aureliano, father of 17 illegitimate sons and describing in a paradoxical succession the events and deaths of the various Buendia.
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