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Introduction

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In the mid-1960s journalist and fiction writer Gabriel Jose Garcia Marquez was little known outside his native Colombia, having never sold more than 700 copies […]

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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In 1928, the year when more than 100 local strikers were massacred, Garcia Marquez was born in Aracataca, Colombia. His first years were spent with […]

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Plot Summary

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A The Founding of Macondo One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez tells the story of the Buendia family and the fictional town […]

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Characters

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A Mauricio Babilonia Always accompanied by yellow butterflies, Mauricio gains access to Meme through the roof over the bathtub, where a man once fell to […]

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Themes

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A Solitude The dominant theme of the novel, as evident from the title, is solitude. Each character has his or her particular form of solitude. […]

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Construction

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A Climax The Hungarian composer Bela Bartok fascinates Garcia Marquez and so the author constructed his novel along this composer’s line. For example, he configured […]

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Historical Perspective

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A Origins of the Colombian State Knowing the history of the country of Colombia can provide considerable insight into the political battles that take place […]

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Questions

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Examine aspects of the Buendia House, considering one or more of the following: how it reflects a certain theme or character personality; how its literal […]

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Further Reading

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Based on his studies of Francisco Franco, dictator of Spain, Garcia Marquez’s 1975 work El otono del patriarca (translated in 1977 as The Autumn of […]