The book begins dramatically with a firing squad about to execute Colonel Aureliano Buendía. Impossible in the world that we live in is absolutely logical in the world of One Hundred Years of Solitude that García Márquez has created. And I like that feeling like being surrounded by that. It was like going back to the things you could believe when you were 4 or 5 years old. You know, if you read it literally, say, oh, what kind of person carries around a sack of bones in it? Well it’s a person in One Hundred Years of Solitude. Her entire baggage consisted of a small trunk, a little rocking chair with small hand painted flowers, and a canvas sack which kept making a clack, clack, clack sound where she carried her parents’ bones. (Reading): That Sunday in fact Rebecca arrived. Yellow flowers that fall from the heaven and carpet the whole town. A woman ascends to heaven, folding laundry as she goes. The novel is best known for crystallizing the mode called magical realism, (lo real magicoso), a combination of the every day and a kind of natural reporting style in which extraordinary things happen. This is a book about how we, Latin Americans came to be. It has all the properties of a telenovella multiple characters, circular time, love affairs and drama. It’s the civil wars, the arrival of technology, a massacre. How different moments of transformation change and progress in a Latin American country affect this family. (Reading): Many years later as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.įirst sentences, openings, are promises of what’s to come and this is a huge promise that the novel delivers on.Īt the very basic the book is about a family. Probably like most people, I often love and think about the very first line in the novel. One Hundred Years of Solitude was written in 1967 by Gabriel García Márquez, a Colombian author who was living at the time in Mexico.
I mean it is whole universe that’s been created that, you’re being asked to step into. It’s just a small thing to even call it a book. “If you bear iguanas, we’ll raise iguanas,” he said. It’s got political conflict, it’s got hopeless love, it’s got golden flowers raining down from the sky.ĭecaying, extraordinary, ingenious, and messed-up. There’s like a before and an after One Hundred Years of Solitude.
The same year that One Hundred Years came out, Sergeant Pepper’s came out. It would be easier to imagine the world without a certain color than without One Hundred Years of Solitude. Invitation to World Literature: One Hundred Years of Solitude Video Transcript
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