One Hundred Years of Solitude
Also known as Cien años de soledad, 100 Years of Solitude
1967 novel by Gabriel García Márquez
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"One Hundred Years of Solitude" is a 1967 novel by Gabriel García Márquez that tells the multi-generational story of a family in a fictional Latin American town. The book is widely regarded as a masterpiece of magical realism and remains one of the most influential novels of the twentieth century.
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- 1967-00-00
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- Cien años de soledad
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- 1960-00-00
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- Muchos años después, frente al pelotón de fusilamiento, el coronel Aureliano Buendía había de recordar aquella tarde remota en que su padre lo llevó a conocer el hielo.
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One Hundred Years of Solitude (Spanish: Cien años de soledad, Latin American Spanish: [sjen ˈaɲos ðe soleˈðað]) is a 1967 novel by Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez that tells the multi-generational story of the Buendía family, whose patriarch, José Arcadio Buendía, founded the fictitious town of Macondo. The novel is often cited as one of the supreme achievements in world literature. It was recognized as one of the most important works of the Spanish language during the 4th International Conference of the Spanish Language held in Cartagena de Indias in March 2007.
The magical realist style and thematic substance of the book established it as an important representative novel of the literary Latin American Boom of the 1960s and 1970s, which was stylistically influenced by Modernism (European and North American) and the Cuban Vanguardia (Avant-Garde) literary movement.