Some novels resist summary the way dreams resist logic. Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude is one such book—a sprawling, incandescent epic that spins its own mythologies, bends time into a spiral, and renders the fate of a family indistinguishable from the fate of a continent. Published in 1967 and translated into English by Gregory Rabassa three years later, the novel follows the Buendía family across generations in the fictional Colombian town of Macondo. It is not a family saga in the traditional sense; rather, it’s a narrative cyclone, looping through names, prophecies, and repetitions until the story…
A Century in a Breath: The Spell of One Hundred Years of Solitude
What is most extraordinary, perhaps, is the novel’s fluid sense of time. Decades pass in sentences; lives recur in names; endings are folded into beginnings.
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