one hundred years of solitude by gabriel garcía

'At the same time, it was a very representative book: Latin America's civil wars, Latin America's inequalities, Latin America's imagination, Latin America's love of music, its color-all this was in a novel in which realism and fantasy were mixed in a perfect way.' 2.

'This was the book that enlarged the Spanish-language reading public to include intellectuals and also ordinary readers because of its clear and transparent style,' he told Vanity Fair. Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, with whom Marquez shared a somewhat troubled friendship, said One Hundred Years of Solitude was a quintessential Latin American novel. In perhaps the most evident example of Marquez's influence, Isabel Allende, the niece of Chilean socialist leader Salvador Allende, included surreal elements to her novel The House of the Spirits, a family saga affected by civil war. 'She told things that sounded supernatural and fantastic, but she told them with complete naturalness,' Marquez said, further explaining the technique: 'I discovered that what I had to do was believe in them myself and write them with the same expression with which my grandmother told them: with a brick face.'Īlong with the work of Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, Brazil's Machado de Assis and Mexico's Juan Rulfo, who were the earliest examples of magical realism, Marquez inspired generations of other novelists to add a touch of magic to their stories. In the Paris Review interview, Marquez said the modeled the novel's style on the stories his grandmother used to tell. Intertwining elements of magic and folklore with historical descriptions of civil wars and massacres, Marquez's book became one of the shining examples of a new literary genre, magic realism. Actually they were all sold within one week in Buenos Aires.' 1. 'I asked him why not start slowly, but he said he was convinced that it was a good book and that all 8,000 copies would be sold between May and December. 'When my Spanish publisher told me he was going to print 8,000 copies I was stunned, because my other books had never sold more than 700,' Marquez recalled in a 1981 interview with The Paris Review. Marquez's publisher, Editorial Sudamericana, ordered the printing of 8,000 copies that started selling on and quickly sold out. The third most translated Spanish book according to the UNESCO, One Hundred Years of Solitude inspired a new literary genre, is regularly mentioned as a favorite book by politicians and celebrities and eventually won its author, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, a Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. The family epic set in the fictitious Latin American village of Macondo touched lives across the globe, having sold around 50 million copies worldwide. Few novels have received such warm praise from politicians, writers, critics and artists as One Hundred Years of Solitude did in the 50 years since its publication.

One hundred years of solitude by gabriel garcía